GIS IN AGRICULTURE
GIS provides mapping capabilities to inventory agriculture types and distributions, farmers, and its production, and managing their land resources more efficiently. GIS plays a vital role in monitoring and management of agricultural information and resources by acquiring and implementing the accurate information into a mapping environment.
GIS provides agriculture and managers the following capabilities:
- Acquiring and generating GIS agriculture and resources data.
- Agricultural mapping for detailed vegetation cover and monitoring.
- Crop yield mapping.
- Crop assessment and crop health.
- Irrigated landscape mapping.
- Soil and irrigation mapping.
- Erosion identification and remediation mapping.
- Damage and land degradation mapping.
