Abstract
Crop Yield Estimation and Forecasting Using Remote Sensing Track: Agriculture Author(s): Kapil Chaudhery, A. Singh, Eram Rizvi The debate about sustainable agriculture focuses on the question of how to keep up food production in the presence of increasing demand from growing populations in developing countries. The world population is burgeoning every minute, and there is sufficient evidence of impending food crisis, especially in the developing countries. In the 20th Session of APCAS (Asia and Pacific commission on agricultural statistics, FAO) emphasis has been laid in the direction of applying remote sensing and GIS for sustainable agricultural productivity. Timely prediction of crop yield is important for planning and policy making to reach solutions. Many developing countries use the conventional technique for field estimation based on field visits and reports which are not only complex in terms of data demand but also delays forecasting. The paper will investigate this problem and attempt to reduce agricultural losses through timely crop productivity forecasting using remote sensing and GIS. Kapil Chaudhery Spatial Decisions B-30 Kailash Colony New Delhi , New Delhi 110048 IN Phone: 91-11-26484914 Fax: 91-11-26217246 E-mail: kapil@spatialdecisions.com A. Singh Spatial Decisions B-30 Kailash Colony New Delhi 110048 IN Phone: 0000000000 E-mail: anil.s@spatialdecisions.com Eram Rizvi Spatial Decisions B-30 Kailash Colony New Delhi 110048 IN Phone: 0000000000 E-mail: eram.r@spatialdecisions.com |
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