Monitoreo de índices de vegetación en la producción del cultivo de banano (Musa paradisiaca) en la Corporación Palmar (provincia de El Oro) mediante técnicas de percepción remota

Abstract

The monitoring of the cultivation of Musa paradisiaca in Ecuador is of transcendental importance because it is the main agricultural product exported worldwide; in addition, from the economic point of view, it generates sources of work and internal currency for the country, being also an important support for food security. The incidence of technology is very significant in agricultural production; in particular, the use of satellite images and remote sensing techniques allow producers to correctly assess the conditions before, during and after the crop cycle to make effective decisions. In this work, the monitoring of the vegetation indices in the production of the banana crop of the Cavendish cultivar in the Palmar Corporation was carried out through remote sensing techniques between the years 2017 and 2019, where the correlation that exists between the vegetation indices was determined and the production of the banana crop, for the farms under study with the use of Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 satellite images. This may be due to different factors such as the geographical area, the high percentage of cloudiness, which makes it difficult to have enough satellite information over time. On the other hand, it is possible that there are other confounding variables for which there is no information, such as pest management techniques, irrigation, among others that are influencing production. Taking into account technological advances, new satellite platforms and the popularization of remote sensing, it is recommended to continue exploring remote sensing techniques to support banana crop management.