Open-source tool kit for scaling

agroforestry interventions
R. K. Singh, C. Biradar, M. D. Behera,
S.K. Dhyani and J. Rizvi and Team
Date: May 09, 2023
New Delhi, India
Agroforestry
• Enhancing economy, provides multiple ecosystem services, including land quality, soil
health, boosting food security, and addressing environmental degradation and mitigating
climate change impact.
• Contributes to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Site-specific suitability map is important for managers, policy and decision makers to
implement the National agroforestry policy (2014), Water Policy (2012) and different
national missions like Horticulture mission, Bamboo mission, etc.
• Challenge: identifying right-species at right location – Machine Learning (ML) algorithms
proven and effective modelling approach
• Scope: Carbon stock to achieve Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)
• The recent advances in the data science and open-source tools and cloud-based platform
provides opportunities to develop dedicated tools for prescribing the potential zones for
agroforestry
Use case: Belpada block, Odisha, India
Objectives:
I. Cropping systems dynamics using
AI/ML/RS
II. Aboveground biomass and carbon
sequestration in agroforestry system
III. Mapping suitability of site-specific
agroforestry interventions
IV. WebGIS platform for scaling
agroforestry interventions in this
region
Cropping systems dynamics using AI/ML/RS

a. Machine Learning Models (RF,

SVM, TWDTW) Crop dynamics and crop type Classified Map using RF for
the Year 2019 and 2020
b. A set of time series Satellite
data (Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1)

c. Corresponds to temporal
signature (ground truth data)

d. RF achieved high accuracy

(OA) and kappa coefficient
(91.52% and 0.88) compared to
SVM and TWDTW
Aboveground Biomass in Agroforestry system
(a) RF model prediction AGB map, (b) Variable importance plot,
• Stratified sampling: 196 plots (c) Predicted vs observed plot
(30m×30 m)
• AGB estimation: diameter at breast
height (DBH) and wood specific
density (WSD) in mixed-species
allometric equation specified by
Chave et al. (2005)
• Satellite Data: Sentinel-2 optical,
Sentinel-1 SAR data and
derivatives
• Estimated biomass was mostly
below 30 t/ha
 Site-specific agroforestry suitability and Niche modelling
Estimated Weights for Different
• Parameters: soil, climate, Variables RF regression
Agroforestry suitability map and ground
reference data points
topographic and socio-
economic factors
• High modelling accuracy
(overall accuracy >0.86)
• Estimated variable
importance:
▪ distance from cropland
▪ distance to roads
▪ distance to settlement
Site-specific agroforestry suitability modelling
(a) Bund and boundary
plantation in double-crop
(paddy-pulses)
(b) Bund plantation, boundary
and intercropping in single-
crop (paddy-fallow)
(c) Bund and boundary
plantation and intercropping
in single crop (cotton-fallow)
(d) Home gardens (adjacent to
settlement)
(e) Block/bulk plantations
(Fallow and Wasteland
Site-specific agroforestry suitability modelling
Scaled-up for Odisha state
(a) Bund and boundary plantation in
double-crop (paddy-pulses)
(b) Bund plantation, boundary and
single intercropping crop (paddy-
fallow)
(c) Bund and boundary plantation
and intercropping in single crop
(cotton-fallow)
(d) Home gardens (adjacent to
settlement)
(e) Block/bulk plantations (Fallow
and Wasteland
WebGIS platform: delivery of data and information for scaling
agroforestry interventions
WebGIS Architecture:, web
browser, Web server, middle
ware.

The RDBMS database server for

SQL for query generation

Various Web servers was used as

WMS, WCS and Web Map Tile
Service (WMTS)

The Geo-server: A web server

uses the client/ server model and
World Wide Web’s HTTP to
deliver the web page contents to
the user based on the request.
 WebGIS platform: Agroforestry suitability and
site-specific interventions
It helps user to
select suitable
interventions for
their farm based
specific criteria like
1. Bund and
boundary
plantation
2. Inter cropping
3. Bulk/block
plantation
4. Home Gardens
Field Photographs
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