Achievements

In-House Making of Drone

An In-house drone has successfully been integrated and tested in controlled field conditions under NePPA project having the following specifications:
Aircraft type: Multirotor
Design type: Quadcopter
Purpose: Agriculture Health Monitoring and Surveying
Features: Real-time Telemetry Demonstration at any specified location, Full HD Live Video transmission with dual camera support, all in one hand-held ground station for flying and mission planning.

Real-time Crop Health Index Monitor

Multispectral satellite remote sensing data and vegetation indices have been commonly used by several studies to monitor crop health. Major part of such analysis is a time consuming and resource intensive process that requires skilled personnel to process huge amounts of data. Hence, the Division of Agricultural Physics, ICAR-IARI has developed “GEENCHIP” – a GUI interface gives users enough freedom to select areas of interest and time period for which the crop health condition map will be generated, under NePPA project.

Drone remote sensing for predicting Leaf Nitrogen Concentration (LNC) in wheat:

Crop nitrogen assessment is a necessary and reliable technique for site-specific nitrogen application to evaluate status of crops. The efficient and timely use of nitrogen is a crucial step towards crop growth. Therefore, leaf nitrogen map has been generated using hyperspectral data acquired using drone.

 

DroneAgri Software

The software is capable of doing the pre-processing followed by analysis from the multi-sensor data (RGB, multispectral and hyperspectral) acquired using drone platform, such as computation of some important indices, like normalised difference vegetative index (NDVI) for the research farms and can be scaled to farmer’s field.