Revealing Inequities in MGNREGA: What Data and Field Insights Tell Us
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in 2005, was designed as a powerful tool to ensure…
Scalable Monitoring of Tree Canopy Density and Height in India at High Spatial Resolutions
Forests and plantations are the backbone of our planet’s ecological balance, offering habitats, absorbing carbon dioxide, regulating climate, and sustaining…
Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India
Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India Introduction Government welfare schemes such as the Mahatma…
Initial Experiments with a Scalable Machine Learning Based Approach for Downscaling the MOD16A2 Evapotranspiration Product
Objective Over the years, the amount of cropping and by extension the water used for cropping has intensified greatly. The…
IndiaSAT: Landuse Land LandCover Classification
Landscapes change in response to nature and human activities. Land use and land cover (LULC) classification is required for land…
Empowering Communities through Data for Improved Socio-ecological Sustainability and Resilience
In a collaborative effort by Gram Vaani, Magasool, IIT Delhi, IIT Palakkad, FES, GIZ, SUPPORT, and 4S teams, a series…
Complexities in assessing farm ponds
Natural Resource Management (NRM) works are taken up under the government welfare schemes like MGNREGA, PMKVY, etc. Many watershed structures…
Launch of LULC Ground Truth Data Collection
Ground truth is a “gold standard” that can be used to build, compare, and evaluate classification models. In supervised learning…