Precision Agriculture and Data Management

The Agroclimate Viewer & Planner App is an interactive web-based tool designed to help users monitor, forecast, and analyze agroclimatic conditions for their croplands. By leveraging Google Earth Engine (GEE), the application provides insights through satellite imagery, weather forecasts, soil data, and climate patterns. Users can draw field boundaries, select specific parameters, and generate visualizations to aid in informed agricultural decision-making. Explore the new webtool: https://datl-chandel.github.io/Agroclimate/

• Field Selection & Data Management: Up to 5 fields per session.
• Vegetation Index (VI) Analysis: NDVI for crop health tracking.
• Climatic Data Trends: Field and soil climate, and water use trends.
• Weather Forecasting: 16-day hourly weather for crop planning.
• Soil Data: Composition, pH, and other characteristics down to 2 m.
• Growing Degree Days (GDD): For 45+ crops using temperature-based heat accumulation.

The overall goal of this research program is to develop scientifically sound engineering solutions for precision crop management against the evident climate change. The central focus is to realize “farms of the future” with advanced remote sensing of crop and its environment, internet-of-things enabled edge and cloud computing tools to implement management decisions in real/near real time for a range of field and specialty crops.

The extension program focuses on dissemination of knowledge and grower-friendly smart farming tools for production agriculutre. The aim is to develop smart farm test beds at grower fields and also engage agricultural sensor and data management companies to present real crop production scenarios to the grower. My program also aims to assist growers in rapid selection of tolerant crop cultivars and pertinent management practices through user-friendly precision ag technologies.

• Pius Jjagwe - Ph.D. Student, Precision Agriculture and Data Management
• Sathish Raymond Sahayaraj - Ph.D. Student, Precision Agriculture and Data Management 
• Chijioke Nkwocha - Ph.D. Student, Precision Agriculture and Data Management

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