Agriculture sector of Uttar Pradesh is the major contributor to the national food grain stock and is also the demographically broadest economic sector of the state¹.Soil moisture is one of the main parameters that influence crop health, monitoring which in near real-time is beneficial for farmers to adopt different agricultural practices for the betterment of yield. The above figure shows the average soil moisture (June-July 2018) map for the Uttar Pradesh state of India. As it can be inferred from the figure that the soil moisture for the period under analysis shows good results. It may be an indicator of good yield this season.

Passive microwave sensors provide soil moisture globally at a coarser spatial resolution whereas active microwave sensors have a higher spatial but low temporal resolution (2–4 weeks). Using soil moisture data directly from any of these sensors will have compromised spatial or temporal resolution. Satyukt Analytics Pvt Ltd has developed an innovative methodology which merges active and passive microwave data to obtain soil moisture data of high spatiotemporal resolution. Some of the applications where this high-resolution soil moisture data would be useful are:

• • Optimal irrigation in farms
  • Improved flood risk estimation
  • Monitor agricultural drought in near real time
  • Likely crop Yield
  • Irrigation Management
  • Improved weather forecast
  • Analyze the impact of an irrigation project
  • Automatic billing of farm based on the actual irrigation

1. http://upagripardarshi.gov.in/StaticPages/UttarPradesh.aspx