Researchers from a UK varsity have collaborated with a top Indian institute for a new research project aimed at studying the impact of climatic changes on agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
The project, set up at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, will be led by Hartmut Boesch and Harjinder Sembhi in the UK and Professor Sachichi Tripathi in India, University of leicester said in a statement.
"The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is a very important region for the regional food supply and the use of EO data will give us novel means of studying the sensitivity of this area to environmental changes," said Boesch, reader in Earth Observation at the University of leicester.