Soil erosion is a major land degradation problem and poses serious environmental and socio-economic crisis worldwide. The Himalayan hills and mountains are very fragile and being threatened by land degradation caused by soil erosion by water that poses serious challenges to the soil ecosystem services and sustainability of natural resources. Reliable estimate of long-term soil erosion rate of various land Continue Reading »

Sonakshi Mehrotra and Anil Kumar The Kumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj, a grand spiritual and cultural congregation, presents unique challenges and opportunities for effective monitoring and management. With millions of pilgrims expected, temporal remote sensing technology offers a dynamic approach to track spatial and temporal changes, including land-use transformations, crowd density patterns, and infrastructure development. High-resolution satellite imagery like DOVE Continue Reading »

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are crucial for studying natural phenomena. Recent research at IIRS has focused on enhancing DEMs through advanced techniques like combining data from Remote Sensing, Satellite Photogrammetry, and SAR Interferometry (InSAR/IfSAR), as well as Spaceborne LiDAR. Notably, studies in the Ghaziabad and Dehradun regions have shown significant improvements in DEMs through fusion methods. Analyzing fused DEMs from Continue Reading »

On the bucket list of several of us to might be to move towards the poles at least once in a life time to witness the breath-taking Northern or Southern lights on our planet. On Earth we don’t have global Auroras but move to Mars and we may witness one! In fact Mars can have global or regional auroras. That’s Continue Reading »

Dipanwita Haldar and Suresh Kumar India is the second largest producer of tea after China. Tea requires a moderately hot and humid climate. Climate influences yield, crop distribution and quality. Tea grows best on well-drained fertile acid soil on high lands. Tea grows best in areas with a maximum temperature of 16-32ºC and a well distributed rainfall of about 150 cm per Continue Reading »