“To prevent government losses and ensure food security for Odisha’s citizens, the Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department needed authenticated field data to verify farmers’ claims, intelligence on crop and land registration, and a platform to analyze paddy crop patterns. It required a level of transparency only advanced technology could …

“We use Planet Monitoring and Planet Tasking to monitor land use and analyze the distribution. Hundreds of satellites, which provide daily data, have given us the flexibility to capture the farmland within 7 to 10 days of the crop maturity period. This has been instrumental in identifying the cropland status—which …