Webinar Series on Remote Sensing in Crop Monitoring and Assessment

Crop monitoring and assessment is an extremely important and the oldest aspect in Remote Sensing Applications. When it comes to keep a finger on the health of the crops, remote sensing proves to be the handiest tool. Crop area estimations, cropping pattern and systems analysis including the rainy season (kharif) crop monitoring using Microwave Remote sensing will be the focus area in this webinar. Knowing early about an infestation or stress can be the key to good productivity. Different factors such as lack of moisture leading to agricultural drought, including biotic and abiotic stress need to be detected early so that the farmers/policy makers can deal with the problem. Crops seldom grow evenly all over a field and therefore, productivity is lesser in one area of the field compared to another. This may be because of differences in soil nutrition or other stresses. With remote sensing, the farmer can see these problems and manage locally; this will be the key in precision agriculture. Global researchers playing key role in Global Agriculture and ecosystem monitoring like GEOGLAM, ASIA RICE, HARVEST, CES-BIO and major
operational monitoring are our esteemed instructors in this Webinar.