Amount of Chlorophyll is estimated. By combining more than one bands of the recorded remote sensing data we can create vegetation indices and estimate crop status.
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Estimating water content from remote sensing
Water is essential for plant growth.
As a result stomata is released by the process of transpiration. If water is insufficient the plant is stressed and the heat is not removed. This heat can be detected by REMOTE SENSING by using parts of spectrum that is sensitive to heat. Green : average. blue : sufficient red : low.
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Combating pests and diseases
Addition to plant under stress and lack of water we
can also find plant effected by pests. It is achieved by combining agricultural knowledge and remote sensing. The red part in the below picture shows the plants effected by pests. Destruction caused by pests reduces leaf area index. We can identify LAI hence we can find the insect attack at an early stage.
CROP IDENTIFICATION
Why do we need to identify crops??
As it increases the financial benefits if the country.
To plan imports and exports.
Cadastral mapping:
It is nothing but mapping of the boundaries of the
field. Cadastral maps are in vector format and provides some special data. It is generally used by national authorities.
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How to identify crop types with Remote
sensing??
Vegetation is generally green in colour but shades of
green is different for various crops.
True colour image
False colour image
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Remote sensing data required:
To identify the type of crop we need to know the
growth cycle of particular crops. Also we have to know how the crops reflect the near infra red at each of their various growth stages.
May (Belgium)
August (Belgium)
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If we compare the same fields in the two images, we
can see that in some cases the signal is different. Fields that appear red are full of vegetation, whereas those that appear blue either have very little or no vegetation at all. By having knowledge on when the crop is cultivated and harvested and by studying 2 or more images from the same growth period we can find the type of crops.
Image classification.
ESTIMATING CROP YIELD
Estimating crop yield using only remote
sensing:
There are two ways to estimate the crop yield. They
are: using only remote sensing and other also uses some extra data.
In may
In august
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In may, crops are at peak of their growth.
In august, plant is focusing its energy in producing the crop and not producing green biomass. Chlorophyll breakage and brown, yellow colour appears to naked eye.
How can we estimate crop yield by seeing
remote sensing image??
Comparing satellite images with crop yield data of the
crop fields in image. The image was processed and vegetative index is formed and compared to crop yield. The estimation obtained is limited that particular period of time only.