Agriculture Information System for ICT
Developed by Prof. Dharmendra Singh & Team
Sponsored by: RailTel-IITR Centre of Excellence in Telecom (RICET)
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, India
E-mail: dharmfec@iitr.ernet.in, Ph.No.: +91- (0) 1332-285695
Introduction
Developed Model
One of the major deficiencies in the modernization efforts of agriculture in India is lack of
technical guidance to farmers. However, the farmers are involved in growing same crop from
centuries and have a lot of experience, but the final outcome is always affected by the
changing weather conditions, soil moisture conditions, crop health, crop diseases and other
such factors. The timely information on all these factors can be of great help to the farmers
and the significant amount of time, effort, and cost can be saved. ICT can be very much
helpful in this information dissemination. This project proposal tries to fulfil this need. As all
these issues are highly localized in nature and setting up the ICT infrastructure in the
localized fashion can proves to be very costly, the use of cloud computing technology can be
very helpful in this direction.
Objective
 The basic objective of the project is to provide the agro-meteorological data, location, and
disease information to the agricultural administers through the automatic analysis of
optical and SAR data based upon ICT in cost-effective way.
 To make the developed system to be accessible to various agricultural administrators
located on various different stations, each of the station has to be equipped with
necessary hardware and software infrastructure.
 In addition to cost, the expertise for setting of the infrastructure is also required.
 To handle this problem, it is planned to provide this service through cloud environment to
make the service hassle free and cost effective to the end users.
 it is planned to provide the information to end users by SMS or Web based.
Methodology
RISAT/PALSAR Images
MODIS/OPTICAL Images
Band & Indices Values
Scattering Image
Intensity Image
Supervised
Fusion
Algorithm
Data
Fusion
Selection of
Bands
View
Minimize the
Changes
Classification
Unsupervised
Rotation
Developed Agriculture Information System
 Agriculture Information System (AIS) is developed and tested for whole Haridwar District
(Uttarakhand, India), for the year of 2014.
 In the beginning, year, month and region of interest (name of District) need to be selected
by clicking NDVI button to see the area information.
 NDVI images of selected and previous year will be displayed.
 Greenness information of the area (NDVI Profile) will be obtained for five years (after
selecting the month).
 Sample moisture maps are displaying for approx. 15 different locations with different dates
(after selecting the Place).
 After clicking on classification button, the selected region of interest will be classified into
Water, Urban and Vegetation classes.
 Classified images of selected and previous year will be displayed.
 Land cover areas (Water, Urban and Vegetation) are shown in square Kilometers.
 Changes can be observed by clicking on Change Maps button.
 Change maps of Water, Urban and Vegetation will be displayed and change and no
change areas are shown in square kilometers.
Classified
Image
Pauli
Some Results
Decomposition
3D
Without
Rotation
HA/α
4D/4D
Modified
Bare Filed
Area
Estimation
Agricultural Parameter
Estimation (Soil Moisture,
Crop Health etc)
Crop Identification
Crop/Vegetation Filed
Time Series
Analysis
Observed Change
SMS
Server
Web Based
Agriculture Information System
(Information to End User)
Concluding Remarks
Flow Chart of Overall Methodology
Proposed Layer Structure
SaaS Layer:
Developed Application for
agricultural information and
disease forecasting
GUI
PaaS Layer:
Data base
Management System
Development and execution
environment for agricultural information
and disease forecasting system
Browser
Operation
support
Responsible for all image processing, data processing, and other analysis activities
IaaS Layer:
Server
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Storage
Network
Operating system
Terminal and other
 One module of AIS is developed and tested for Haridwar District for the year of
2014, implementation for other Districts of Uttarakhand is under process.
 Other Modules are in developing phase.
 Web based and SMS based AIS development is in process.
Development Team
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Prof. Dharmendra Singh (dharmfec@gmail.com)
Mr. Tasneem Ahmed (tasneemrke@gmail.com)
Ms. Shruti Gupta (shruti2306@gmail.com)
Mr. Shashi Vardhan Naidu (msvnaidu92@gmail.com)
Mr. Gaurav Kapatia (gkapatia@gmail.com)
Mr. Rachit Sharma (rachitsharma1234@gmail.com)