Geospatial Approach for Monitoring of Crop Residue Burning for its Management including Conservation Agriculture Kumar Sehgal Vinay1*, Rajkumar Dhakar1, Aakash Chhabra1, Niveta Jain2, Narayan Sahoo Rabi1, Joydeep Mukherjee1 1Division of Agricultural Physics, ICAR - Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi - 110012 2Division of Environment Science, ICAR - Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi - 110012 *Corresponding author, Email: vk.sehgal@icar.gov.in; vksehgal@gmail.com
Online published on 22 March, 2022. Abstract Paddy residue burning after harvest is a common practice followed by farmers in the north western India to clear the land for succeeding wheat crop sowing on time. But it emits particulate matter and greenhouse gases leading to atmospheric pollution in the region. The state governments are implementing schemes for promotion of in-situ management of paddy residue as well as adoption of conservation agricultural practices in sowing of wheat. In order to target schemes for management of paddy residue including adoption of conservation agriculture, it is imperative to have near real-time information on the extent of paddy residue burning along with its current and historical spatio-temporal pattern and the emission of pollutants. This paper covers the use of remote sensing technologies in the whole gamut of spatio-temporal monitoring of crop residue burning and pollution estimation. The work carried out by the CREAMS (Consortium for Research on Agroecosystem Monitoring and Modeling from Space) laboratory of ICAR-IARI (http://creams.iari.res.in) has been taken as an example in the paper to elucidate the methodology and results for the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The residue burning monitoring is an integral part of any strategy to estimate the quantum of problem and to target areas for the promotion of conservation agriculture practices to be undertaken by different agencies. Top Keywords Remote sensing, biomass, crop area, pollution, fire event, rice-wheat. Top |