


Farmers and scientists in Mali are learning first-hand how satellite technology can be used to interpret crop performance and alter decision-making on-farm. Modern information technologies including remote sensing can help monitor crop performance at levels of granularity increasingly compatible with smallholder farming. ICRISAT research under the Spurring a Transformation for Agriculture through Remote Sensing (STARS) project focuses on analysis of the potential of remote sensing to retrieve crop status information at sub-field scales in heterogeneous smallholder rainfed production systems.