Geoinformatics Applications in Agriculture
Contents: Foreword/M.S. Swaminathan. Preface. 1. Space sensing and environment monitoring/Ajai and J.K. Garg. 2. Geoinformatics in precision farming: an overview/Rajender Prasad, Anshu Dixit, P.K. Malhotra and V.K. Gupta. 3. Geoinformatics applications in India-retrospect and prospects : experience of National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA)/P.S. Roy. 4. Horticultural resources information system - A geo-informatic tool for horticultural development/S.C. Kotur, D. Sreenivasa Murthy, T.M. Gajanana, Reena Rosy Thomas, Chitra Mothkur, L.B. Ashok and G.S. Geetha. 5. Geoinformatics in support of food security and poverty alleviation: a perspective based on national wasteland mapping project/S.K. Srivastava, CBS Dutt, R. Nagaraja, S. Bandyopadhayay, H.C. Meena Rani, V.S. Hegde and V. Jayaraman. 6. Geoinformatics for monitoring glaciers and glacial lakes/R.M. Bhagat, Chitra Sood, Vaibhav Kalia, Pradeep Mool, S. Bajracharya and Basanta Shrestha. 7. Monitoring and management of water resources/Sanjay K. Jain, Rakesh Kumar and K.D. Sharma. 8. Application of geospatial tools, techniques and concepts for integrated watershed management/A. Sarangi and A.K. Singh. 9. Geoinformatics for enhancing productivity in flood plain agro-ecosystem/R.N. Sahoo, R.K. Tomar, I.P. Abrol, R.K. Gupta, D. Chakraborty, V.K. Sehgal and N. Kalra. 10. Groundwater modelling using GIS/M.S. Mane, D.K. Singh, A.K. Singh and A.K. Bhattacharya. 11. Participatory GIS for planning livelihood improvement - a case study in canal command areas of Bihar/B. Saha, R.P. Jones, A.K. Sikka, P.R. Bhatnagar and S. Chowdhury.
"Earth functions as a complex system and existing infrastructure and methodologies are inadequate for the community to address many problems of this system. It requires an integrated and innovative approach to analyse, model and develop extensive and diverse data sets for the solution of these problems. Geoinformatics, which is the synergy of multiple disciplines, namely, earth sciences, GIS, remote sensing, GPS, photogrammetry and cartography, is developing fast in the areas where the data are identified by their locations. Currently, there is a chaotic distribution of available data sets, lack of documentation about them and the methodologies, lack of easy-to-access, tolls, computer modeling etc. which pose the major obstacles for the earth scientist in trying to work out solutions. The authors have tried to remove these hurdles by bringing together relevant informations and techniques as well as the recent advances in these fields. This book presents a comprehensive account of various topics related to the applications of geoinformatics which are highly diversified and include space and environmental monitoring, watershed management, water resources and management, productivity enhancement in agro-ecosystems, resource information systems, precision farming, monitoring of glaciers and lakes, geospatial techniques and livelihood improvement using GIS."
