The Union Agriculture Ministry has signed an MoU with Pixxel Space India Pvt. Ltd., to develop various geospatial solutions, mainly for monitoring the health of crops and soil. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Monday in the presence of Agriculture Secretary Manoj Ahuja. Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre on behalf of the ministry will associate with the Pixxel team for developing and implementing suitable methodologies. "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.“
