The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare has signed a MOU with Pixxel Space India Pvt. Limited. The project focuses on leveraging sample hyperspectral data from Pixxel’s path finder satellites to develop analytics models focused on crop mapping, crop stage discrimination, crop health monitoring, and soil organic carbon assessments. A press release on the same was issued on 26th June, 2023.
The project will enable the Government to develop use cases with hyperspectral data provided by PIXXEL. MNCFC on behalf of the DA&FW will associate with Pixel team for developing and implementing the suitable methodologies.