Can you name the dustiest planet in our Solar System? It is none other than our closest neighbour, Mars. This dust is responsible for its other names, ‘the Red Planet’ or ‘the Pigpen Planet’. Though the size of Mars is approximately half of that of our planet, but it has similar size of dry land as we have on Earth. Continue Reading »

Justin George K and Suresh Kumar Proximal soil sensing involves using sensors placed close to or within the soil to measure its properties accurately and efficiently. Proximal sensing approaches employing various advanced sensors aid us in acquiring spatial as well as temporal soil data/information at reduced costs, in very short time period and with reduced chemical usage and less efforts. Continue Reading »

Dipanwita Haldar and Suresh Kumar Medium resolution SCANSAR (MRS) data 18m pixel spacing has served as work horse for field crop monitoring during 2012-2016 during RISAT-1 timeframe and 2022 onwards in RISAT-1A particularly for predominant kharif crops’s monitoring. This dataset is being systematically acquired over the entire Indian subcontinent in descending node. During the overcast sky in the northern India, Continue Reading »

Multi temporal NDVI composite help in distinction of rice and sugarcane dominated regional patterns in northern India Agriculture is important for the Indian society due to its importance in economy, employment, food security,  national self reliance and general well being. Generation of crop statistics in India dates back to historical Mauryan ( Kautilya’s Arthasastra)  as well as Moghul era (Todarmal Continue Reading »

Remote sensing has become an indispensable tool for various applications, including environmental monitoring, urban planning, and disaster management, and many more. With the increasing availability of high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, there is a pressing need for advanced image analysis techniques. Traditionally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field of computer vision; however, vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as Continue Reading »