Abstract: Conventionally, progress monitoring of irrigation infrastructure creation is carried out through field inspection of few selected locations and also using inputs provided by implementing state agencies. Based on the potential of high resolution remote sensing data for irrigation infrastructure monitoring as demonstrated by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Central Water Commission (CWC) entrusted it to use Cartosat satellite data for assessing the irrigation infrastructure creation status in 103 projects under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP), spread over 21 states, covering 6.45 million hectare (Mha) irrigation potential. Further, Bhuvan-AIBP web application, simplifying the satellite data usage for monitoring irrigation infrastructure creation status was also developed. The capacity building enabled CWC to subsequently carry out the monitoring of irrigation projects, internally, using the AIBP-Bhuvan online monitoring tool.
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