With a view to this, the Centre for Agriculture
and Bioscience International
(CABI, the parent organisation of
SciDev.Net) has been running a project
with the University of Manchester that
harnesses Earth observation data, including
satellite data from the European
Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 mission.
Although the use of satellites has
surged in agriculture in recent years, Julien
Godwin, project manager for the initiative
at CABI, says satellites have not
yet been widely ex
invasive weeds in de
That means it is esse
with the issue.
As for the satellite
says Usman, a cha
thenium often grow
where there are cro
to detect.
But he thinks satelli
tential” to help the
Figure 2: A scientist examines Parthenium weed. Asim Hafeez
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