agronomy agricultural physics agricultural meteorology soil science

Suggested Readings
Anderson, S.H and Hopmans, J.H. (eds). 1994. Special Publication No. 36,
Tomography of Soil-Water- Root Processes, Soil Science Society of America,
Madison, Virginia.
De Vries, D.A and Afghan, N.H. (eds.). 1974. Heat and Mass Transfer in the Biosphere,
Halsted Press-Wiley, New York.
Hillel. D., 1998. Environmental Soil Physics, Academic Press.
Hillel, D. (editor). Optimizing Soil Physical Environment Towards Greater Crop
Yields, Academic Press, New York.
Middletone, H.E. 1930. Properties of soil which influence soil erosion, USDA Tech
Bull. 178.
Nobel, P.S. 1974. Introduction to Biophysical Plant Physiology, Freeman, san Francisco,
California.
Philips, J. R. 1966. In- Proc. UNESCO Symposium -Water in the unsaturated Zone,
Practice, Special Publication No.30, Soil Science Society of America.
Stanhill,G. 1976. Vegetation and atmosphere, Vol II, Ed. J.L., Monteith, Academic
Press.
Van Wijk, W.R. 1963. Physics of Plant Environment, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
Wageningen, Netherlands.
3. Principle of remote sensing and its applications in agriculture (2+1)
Basic components of remote sensing: signals, sensors and sensing systems; active
and passive remote sensing; characteristics of electromagnetic radiation and its interaction
with-matter; spectral features of earth's surface features; remote sensors in
visible, infrared and microwave regions; imaging and non imaging systems; framing
and scanning systems; resolution of sensors; sensors platforms, their launching and
maintenance; data acquisition system, data preprocessing, storage and dissemination;
digital image processing and information extraction; microwave remote sensing;
visual and digital image interpretation; introduction to GIS and GPS.
Digital techniques for crop discrimination and identification; crop stress detectionsoil
moisture assessment, inventory of ground water & satellite measurement of surface
soil moisture and temperature; drought monitoring, monitoring of crop disease
and pest infestation; soil resource inventory; land use/land cover mapping and planning;
Integrated watershed development; crop yield modeling and crop production
forecasting.