Tea crop yield monitoring using radar back scatter estimation.

Abstract

Agricultural monitoring has in the recent past become a paramount venture, primarily out of the need and desire to obtain timely information on crops. This purpose of this report is therefore to discuss agricultural monitoring particularly in Uganda and is comprised of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the research where insight into research problem and justification of the research are explicitly laid down. In this section, the relevance of the research is established. In chapter two, information regards to research in agriculture as a whole as well as tea in particular are presented in form of a literature review. It is in this section that a critical analysis of the selected works revealing what has already been researched are also exhausted. In chapter three, the methodology that was used for the purpose of this research is clearly explained, with a detailed conceptual framework. Lastly, chapter four presents the results obtained, an analysis of these results, conclusions and finally recommendations.