Utilising EO for Irrigation Management Performance in Indonesia
As part of the GDA Agriculture Consortium, CGI delivered EO-based irrigation performance monitoring tools in Indonesia to support ADB’s dryland horticulture initiative, enabling efficient water use analysis through high-resolution evapotranspiration and biomass data via the Insula platform.
Description
Under the GDA Agriculture Consortium, CGI led the development and delivery of EO-based irrigation performance monitoring services to support the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) “Indonesia: Horticulture Development in Dryland Areas Sector Project.” This project aims to enhance horticultural productivity, sustainable water management, and value chain efficiency in Indonesia’s dryland regions. CGI, through its cloud-based Insula platform, delivered high-resolution maps and analytics on evapotranspiration and water use efficiency (WUE), both on decadal and seasonal scales. These services provided critical insights into the performance of irrigation systems, enabling stakeholders to assess water productivity at field level.
The EO products included assessments of evapotranspiration, biomass gain, and WUE, with overlays of crop and land cover data to support crop-specific analysis across irrigation zones. These tools allow users to perform their own analyses through the Insula interface, making the platform a powerful asset for evidence-based water resource management.
Feedback from ADB confirmed the value of the services, especially in complementing the bank’s Cloud SEOS initiative — an effort to expand EO integration across ADB-funded programmes. The water use efficiency products developed by CGI filled a key gap in SEOS’s existing toolset, strengthening its capabilities in agriculture and water resource planning.