It is a remote sensing tool to use the satellite pictures to characterize the soil field conditions for crops. The system along with GIS is most powerful decision methodology . This helps in predicting drought and crop production forecast.
Application of geo-spatial tools is the most potent form of satellite agriculture...
Use of Satellite Imagery & Geo-spatial Technology in the field of agriculture.
It is a remote sensing tool to use the satellite pictures to characterize the soil field conditions for crops. The system along with GIS is most powerful decision methodology . This helps in predicting drought and crop production forecast.
Very good response Dr Sheth.This tool is nowdays used in monitoring groundwater resources of the country. Uses of geospatial tools are now beyond imagination, they are of huge utility as a part of precision farming...
Dear colleagues, Satellite Agriculture is also called Precision agriculture, which is an approach to farm management that uses information technology to ensure that the crops and soil receive exactly what they need for optimum health and productivity. The goal of Setellite Agriculture is to ensure profitability, sustainability and protection of the environment. It is also known asneeded farming and site-specific crop management (SSCM).
Satellite data can be useful in this respect: They deliver information about the growth performance of field crops, for example. This knowledge allows optimizing the use of fertilizer to protect the ground water more efficiently since too much mineral fertilizer can result in excessive nitrate content in our drinking water.
The data from space also allow drought-related crop failures to be assessed at an early stage. This is particularly important for farmers in poorer countries.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-satellite-agriculture.html#jCp
Satellite images for smart agriculture are very useful The fact of depending on the weather, prevents us from ensuring that we will obtain images on a specific date. In matters of precision agriculture, dates are important. The collection of images at very specific moments of a crop is fundamental
According to ESA Earth, 37% of the land on Earth is used for Agriculture. With an ever growing population, this portion of the planet has to become more and more productive. This means continuing to adapt with the technological changes that a modern world brings. In automatic irrigation and tractors with computers the technology is easy to see, but one piece of critical infrastructure sits miles away from any farmland. Satellites, especially geostationary ones, are changing the landscape of agriculture.
A very common use that doesn’t require much specialized hardware is GPS tracking. Farmers with multiple thousand acre properties often find that coordinating which areas are being maintained in an effective manner is a logistical nightmare. GPS tracking helps farmhands to stay on track to their targeted areas, but it also helps farmers to be able to map out which parts of the land have been hit. A map program linked to the GPS in a phone can be used to find individual patches of crops that were missed during the last rounds. Nasa’s Earth Observatory is actively involved in precision crop management, and the Department of Agriculture is working to bring the technology to widespread usage.
With increasingly massive farms belonging to a smaller number of farm staff, being able to remotely monitor all aspects of the land is critical. Unmaned Ariel Vehicles have started to fill this role, but Farm Industry News is reporting that satelites are starting to take the lead. According to the report, satellite providers have made massive improvements to both the resolution and the frequency of imaging. This means farmers will have access to high definition imaging of every inch of their land on a weekly basis. According to experts, this is more than often enough to “react to crop stress in a timely manner to protect yield or reduce inputs.”
For any farmer with a crop, water logging and crop diseases are constant fears. Satellite imaging can help to detect both of these earlier than a standard patrol over the land. Using digital image analysis a computer can examine the quality of the crops to look for the outward symptoms of issues such as parasitic nematodes. This same imaging technology can also examine the color of the soil to look for areas that are over or undersaturated. WIth this, problems in irrigation can be detected far faster than tracking pipes to look for blockages . Some providers are even starting to offer Leaf Area Index monitoring. (http://www.xyht.com/enviroag/satellite-imagery-precision-agriculture/).
Agriculture is more than just acres of corn, and satellites have applications for farmers raising animals as well. Geoimage is an Australian company that has developed a satellite imaging program designed to monitor paddock areas and ensure that the entire operation is within government regulations. The company also advertises that it is able to help farmers plan future expansions for their farms with their imaging software.
The most practical use for satellite imagining is the one which most directly links to profits, and that is estimating crop yields. Almost every satellite imaging provider on the market is able to analyze the data they collect from orbit in order to give accurate estimates for this season’s yield. This allows farms to better plan for year to year variations in income and expenses. While nothing is ever going to remove the need to get their hands dirty, farming is becoming one of the most technologically involved industries. Regardless of where a person is in the world, satellite imaging providers are able to help that farm operate in a more efficient manner.
The articles in this links help to the question
http://www.unoosa.org/res/oosadoc/data/documents/2016/stspace/stspace69_0_html/st_space_69E.pdf
http://www.pasturesfromspace.csiro.au/farm_by_satellite.pdf
https://londoneconomics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/LE-SAC-Satellite-Tech-in-UK-Agri-REPORT-FINAL.pdf
https://stt.nl/stt/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ENG-Toekomstverkenning-agri-food-Web.pdf
Dear Dr. Drlatief Ahmad , it is really an interesting issue.
Currently, satellites are being applied to agriculture in several ways. Initially satellites were employed as a means of estimating crop yields. Optical and radar sensors can provide an accurate picture of the acreage being cultivated, while also differentiating between crop types and determining their health and maturity.
This information helps to inform the market, and provide early warning of crop failure or famine. Satellites are also used as a management tool through the practice of precision agriculture, where satellite images are used to characterize a farmer's fields in detail, often used in combination with GIS, to allow more intensive and efficient cultivation practices. For instance, different crops might be recommended for different fields while the farmer's use of fertilizer is optimized in a more economic and environmentally-friendly fashion. And agricultural monitoring is increasingly being applied to forestry, both for forest management and as a way of characterizing forests as carbon sinks to help minimize climate change.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools and online web resources can help farmers to conduct crop forecasting and manage their agriculture production by utilizing multispectral imagery collected by Satellites, fix wing Aircraft or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) and processed to provide NDVI and other vegetation/ soil indices, together with crop stress information. This data is used in regional GIS or CAD management systems and web portals. The ability of GIS to analyze and visualize agricultural environments and workflows has proven to be very beneficial to those involved in the farming industry.
Satellite agriculture is perhaps the most modern form of agriculture to be able to capture changes in natural resources , dynamics of pests and diseases including the crop maturity time on a real time basis. Thats the most outstanding feature of satellite agriculture...
Dear Dr. Drlatief,
Satellite radars assist in forecasting agricultural yield and evaluating crop monitoring using geospatial tools like ERS/SAR that are very sensitive to geometrical characteristics of ground surface enhancing modern agricultural production. I have attached very important resources on this relevant project. Best regards
Dear Dr. Dickson,
Is a modern technique used to collect data and analysis and interpretation of phenomena to obtain useful information and accurate on the types of soil and plant and monitor the performance of plant species within the conditions of a particular area to determine any types suitable for the conditions of that region.best regards
Geospatial technology provide substantial aid in delineating the biotechnology.
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I agree with submissions of Dr. Mushtaq Ahmed and Dr. Dickson Adom
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Jahangir
La agricultura satelital no solo es beneficiosa en la evaluación de las condiciones del suelo, sino que también es útil en la identificación de los recursos hídricos y el monitoreo de los cultivos utilizando la tecnología GIS.
Use of the satellite data and images to manage agriculture precisely by weather forecast, soil information, site specific management, and for the identification of water resources.
Space technology in agriculture..helps in monitoring and management of natural resources, acreage and yield estimation, drought assisment, insec pest incidence, site suitability, weather forecast etc.
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