Satellite Based Sugarcane Crop Acreage, Yield and Production Estimation

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Satellite Based Sugarcane Crop Acreage, Yield and
Production Estimation

• Presented by
• Yogesh Kumar Singh
• RMSI Private Limited

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Introduction

• Real Time Information
• Reliability of Data
• Accuracy of Data
• Time Frame of Information
• Objectives
• Sugarcane Acreage estimation
• Yield Model Development
• Production Estimation

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Study Area

• Data Used
• Primary Data
• Satellite Data
• Secondary Data
• Topographic Map
• Administrative Boundaries
• Historical Yield Data

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Methodology Acreage Estimation
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Methodology Yield Estimation

• NDVI based model
• Statistical model

Model
Satellite Image
Sugarcane Yield Estimation
Historical Data
Ground Survey
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Ground Truthing
GPS Point Data Overlaid in District Boundary
Healthy Sugarcane
GPS Point Data Overlaid in District Boundary
GPS Data Collection
Farmer Interview
Farmer Responding Sugarcane Cultivation
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Result of Acreage Estimation for 2007-08

• Sugarcane acreage in Uttar Pradesh 28.2 million
  hectare
• Sugarcane acreage in Maharashtra 10 million
  hectare

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Result of Yield Estimation

• Statistical model-based yield estimation of
  representative district of Uttar Pradesh

S No District Statistics Yield Model R-square Satellite Derived Sugarcane Acreage (in hundred thousand ha) 2007-08 Estimated Yield 2007-08 (tonnes/ha)
1 Sant Kabir Nagar y 52.978x 7395.1 0.95 0.04 54.91
2 Bahraich y 48.649x 347058 0.98 1.19 51.57
3 Muzaffarnagar y 40.832x 6E06 0.55 2.31 66.81
4 Ghaziabad y -29.605x 5E06 0.07 0.60 53.56
5 Lakhimpur Kheri y 86.711x - 8E06 0.93 2.62 56.19

• Satellite derived model-based yield
  estimation of repsentative district of Uttar
  Pradesh

S No District Statistics Yield Model R-square Satellite Derived Weighted NDVI Satellite Derived Sugarcane Acreage (in hundred thousand ha) 2007-08 Estimated Yield 2007-08 (tonnes/ha)
1 Sant Kabir Nagar y 344.14x - 124.52 0.97 0.517 0.04 53.4
2 Bahraich y 160.2x - 30.177 0.75 0.515 1.19 52.32
3 Muzaffarnagar y 177.79x - 33.023 0.65 0.579 2.31 69.97
4 Ghaziabad y 131.64x - 10.217 0.41 0.501 0.60 55.68
5 Lakhimpur Kheri y 82.825x 13.822 0.67 0.555 2.62 59.79
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Benefits of this Study

• Information available at Door step in readily
  usable format
• Data accuracy and validation
• Crop harvest data available much before other
  published report
• Aids in Decision Support, Analysis
• End to end solution for Agri-Business Industry
• RS methods reduces approximately 30 of field
  work cost

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