Remote Sensing Applications in Agriculture

Given at college of Agriculture, KSU in 1421.

 

 

Elements of the lecture

 

 

·         INTRODUCTION

o        What is Remote Sensing

o        Concert of Resolutions

o        Recent Developments

 

·         IMPORTANT ELEMENTS IN RS TECHNIQUE:

 

o        IMAGE ELEMENTS: such as tone, color, texture, location, association, scale, etc.

o        OBJECT ELEMENTS: pattern of natural features, pattern of man-made features.

o        HUMAN ELEMENT: skilled interpreter.

 

 

None of these elements can do the job alone.

 

 

·         SOME COMMON APPLICATIONS

 

o        Assessment of potentially arable lands

o        Classification of agricultural lands

o        Identification and distribution of crops cultivated

o        Crop areas and predicted crop yields

o        Periodic changes in crops or farming patterns

o        Detection of crop change

o        Evaluation of plant diseases and plant vigor

o        Mapping agricultural soils

o        Analysis of terrain and soil-forming processes

o        Evaluation of water erosion

o        Evaluation of environment effects

·         EXAMPLES

·         ROLE OF SURVEYING ENGINEERING (GEOMATICS) IN AGRICULTURE.

·        INTEGRTAION OF RS AND  GIS.

·        DISCUSSION