agricultural monitoring and management application(amma)
- Paper number
IAC-08.B1.5.2
- Author
Mr. Swamy Rakesh Adapa, S.R.K.R ENGINEERING COLLEGE, India
- Year
2008
- Abstract
Agriculture has been the part and parcel of the human life.It has been the major occupation around the world prior to the industrial revolution.Today many of the developing countries had their strong economical fundamentals from it.UN has been doing a great job in uplifting the rural population in terms of health and education.There is a need for upliftment of agricultural sector which has beeen lagging in the present economies.More than 70%of the rural employment comes from agricultural activities.So,there is a neeed for utilization of cutting edge technologies to make it profitable. The problems that are being mainly faced by the farmers are illiteracy, climatic changes,improper data transfer ,low technical skills,migration,disasters,water supply,growing demand,supply gap etc; AMMA helps the farmers to utilize the fruits of geographical information system(GIS),satellite technology,information technology,tele-education,tele-medicine etc; The farmer gets registered at our website through the Village Resource Centre(VRC),or AMMA Centre.The coordinator collects the data from the farmer about the past status of the crop,his economic status etc;Now the process goes like this.., 1.The coordinator sends the crop status through images and text data. 2.The expert sends the advice on seeing the crop status,satillite images on weekly basis. 3.The coordinator explains it to the farmer. 4.The farmer follows the advice,take appropriate steps and gives the feed back. This cycle is repeated every week through internet. Here at AMMA a quantitative and caliberated map is generated each time the satillite data is collected.These map’s indicate soil’s surface moisture,texture,organic mater and other visible characteristics are used to monitor the crop.Crop condition assessment,salinity,alkalinity and soil wetness levels are found through VNIR and SWIR data that is used to manage the crop.The tele-education platform is used to educate the farmers.This application can fulfill the dreams of many small farmers to have their plate full of meal.It could help to increase thier income nearly 6-7%per crop.The hope of UN,ISRO,MSSRF,JAXA etc;that the space tecnology must reach the foot step of the rural people will become true by using our application.We conclude that our application could make the farming sector reach it’s new fame and heritage.
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