How Is GIS Used In Agriculture? The number of GIS applications in agriculture has exploded in recent years thanks to technological advancements. Let’s discuss some of the most popular current applications.
Precision Agriculture Precision agriculture GIS software provides detailed vegetation and productivity maps, including crop information, for making reasonable decisions. Agriculture GIS tools can identify vegetation levels in your field or any of its areas. Agriculture machinery can then use this information to adjust seed, nutrients, herbicides, and fertilizer amounts for each plot.
EOSDA Crop Monitoring lets you create productivity maps of your fields using data from previous years. With their guidance, you can identify productive and unproductive areas and fertilize the unproductive ones with potassium-phosphorus solutions.
Productivity map based on historical data, identifying more and less productive areas in the field.
Agriculture Mapping Soil and crop analysis can be facilitated by satellite sensors, allowing the creation of soil index maps and maps of vegetation indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). Agriculture GIS mapping aids field monitoring and management for successful crop production.
Comparing field vegetation on several dates or using various indices might help you determine how different variables affect yield. EOSDA Crop Monitoring now includes a Split View feature, allowing you to view the current state of your field alongside historical data from the past week, month, or year, or check the performance of two different indices on the same date.
Comparing the NDVI and MSAVI indices to assess vegetation at an early stage of crop development.
In the given case, the NDVI alone suggests that certain fields may need reseeding since not all seeds germinated. The MSAVI index, however, designed specifically to track seedlings, reveals even vegetation throughout the field.
