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Crop Drought Stress Monitor

See which fields are under water stress using free satellite imagery.

Advanced30h2–4 people15/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Crop Drought Stress Monitor for farmers, cooperatives and agri-ngos in ~30h with 2–4 people. Stack: Satellite data + Python + Leaflet.

Why it wins: Real agronomy impact with satellite data.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Farmers see drought damage too late to save the crop.
02 · Solution
Compute vegetation indices from free satellite imagery for field polygons, compare with seasonal baselines and alert on stress.
03 · Build
  1. 1Fetch imagery per field
  2. 2Compute indices
  3. 3Compare with baseline
  4. 4Alert on anomalies
04 · Demo
Draw a field and show its index trend dropping below normal.

MVP checklist

  • Field drawing
  • Index trends
  • Stress alerts
  • Season comparison

Tech stack

TechRole
Satellite dataEarth observation data
PythonBackend / scripting
LeafletInteractive maps

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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