Lead Agency for Remote Sensing Technology for Agricultural Productivity

Remote Sensing

The Center aims to establish the following:

  • Functional environmental monitoring laboratory that cater the needs of the province and the region for geospatial information;
  • Well-trained professionals on GIS, RS and GPS tools including crop-weather models through a joint three-weeks training at MMSU;
  • In placed WebGIS facilities that disseminate technologies generated to interested clients;
  • Archival of satellite data for various applications;
  • Functional yield forecasting model for rice and other rice-based crops;
  • Drought and flood index maps;
  • Improved policies and institution for sustainable rainfed ecosystem; and
  • IEC materials