Comprehensive Remote Sensing Observation on Crop Progress (CROP)
Kartavya Desk Staff
Source: TH
Context: ISRO’s satellites, under the CROP framework, have forecasted India’s wheat production at 122.724 million tonnes across eight major wheat-growing States for the Rabi season 2024-25.
About Comprehensive Remote Sensing Observation on Crop Progress (CROP):
• What it is? A semi-automated, scalable remote sensing framework developed to monitor crop sowing, growth, and harvesting stages in near real-time.
• Developed by: National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
• Objective: To enable systematic, timely, and scalable monitoring of agricultural crops using satellite data. To provide accurate crop condition assessments supporting early agricultural planning and food security strategies.
• To enable systematic, timely, and scalable monitoring of agricultural crops using satellite data.
• To provide accurate crop condition assessments supporting early agricultural planning and food security strategies.
• Features: Satellite Sources: Utilizes Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from satellites like EOS-04 (RISAT-1A), EOS-06 (Oceansat-3), and Resourcesat-2A. Spatial Mapping: Monitors wheat distribution across 8 lakh hectares in major wheat-producing states. Crop Simulation Models: Integrates sowing dates, crop area, and in-season condition using 5×5 km spatial resolution. Multi-Source Data Fusion: Enhances estimation precision by combining optical and radar observations.
• Satellite Sources: Utilizes Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from satellites like EOS-04 (RISAT-1A), EOS-06 (Oceansat-3), and Resourcesat-2A.
• Spatial Mapping: Monitors wheat distribution across 8 lakh hectares in major wheat-producing states.
• Crop Simulation Models: Integrates sowing dates, crop area, and in-season condition using 5×5 km spatial resolution.
• Multi-Source Data Fusion: Enhances estimation precision by combining optical and radar observations.
• Significance: Boosts Agri-Policy Making: Supports the Ministry of Agriculture in real-time agricultural monitoring. Improves Food Security: Early yield estimation helps manage food stock and procurement planning. Disaster Management: Aids in drought, flood, and pest impact assessments. Advances Technology Use: Promotes space-based precision agriculture and remote sensing integration in farm management.
• Boosts Agri-Policy Making: Supports the Ministry of Agriculture in real-time agricultural monitoring.
• Improves Food Security: Early yield estimation helps manage food stock and procurement planning.
• Disaster Management: Aids in drought, flood, and pest impact assessments.
• Advances Technology Use: Promotes space-based precision agriculture and remote sensing integration in farm management.