Damascus-SANA
With the aim of supporting the requirements of the work of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform by taking advantage of the capabilities and capabilities of remote sensing technology, in collecting and analyzing agricultural data, researcher Nasser Tarraf Ibrahim, research director at the General Authority for Remote Sensing, worked on designing and implementing an integrated work system in this field, which includes the entire agricultural process Planning and implementation, in order to achieve agricultural security.
Researcher Ibrahim explained to SANA reporter that the system (TAJ) is working to achieve direct goals represented in planning the management of the agricultural process for strategic crops, in terms of cultivated areas and productivity, in addition to designing and modeling programs for spectral estimation of crop productivity from satellite images.
He said: There are interim goals that are being implemented in order to reach the direct goals represented in determining the spectral footprint of agricultural crops, spectral separation between crops and defining their geographical ranges, developing area maps for strategic and major crops, estimating plant growth and knowing the degree of impact of environmental conditions, whether biotic or abiotic, on productivity. .
And Ibrahim indicated that the system was implemented over a period of three years, which included preparing the physical components of the system, forming a work team, preparing a plan and methodology for work and training, and testing productive spectral models elicited for each scale (agricultural-geographical), indicating that the system is based on processing and analyzing satellite images to estimate productivity. by a specialized team.
Ibrahim pointed out that the system contributes to determining the optimal areas for growth for each crop type, to benefit from them by setting the optimal planting and irrigation date, and to know the appropriate nutrients during the growth phases, leading to determining the date of maturity and harvest in a way that reduces production loss and obtains the highest possible amount of it, in addition to Early prediction of the expected production quantity, which contributes to the success of the planning and marketing process.
It is noteworthy that the researcher Ibrahim received an exceptional bonus in his work, in appreciation and encouragement to scientists and scientific research, for obtaining and implementing a patent entitled (A model for spectral prediction of wheat production from satellite images). Multi-spectral, multi-phase satellite image data) Award of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils for outstanding scientific research in the field of remote sensing.
Alia Hashma
SANA Economic Bulletin
Follow SANA's news on Telegram https://t.me/SyrianArabNewsAgency
