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Advances in Remote Sensing, 2012, 1, 1-13 /10.4236/ars.2012.11001 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ars) Satellite Derived Geospatial Irrigation Performance Indicators for Benchmarking Studies of Irrigation Systems A. V. Suresh Babu, M. Shanker, V. Venkateshwar Rao National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Department of Space, Government of India, Hyderabad, India Email: avsureshbabuisro@, {shanker_m, vvrao}@.in Received April 15, 2012; revised May 20, 2012; accepted June 5, 2012 ABSTRACT Development of irrigation infrastructure and its efficient management is the primary concern for sustainable food pro- duction. The assessment of irrigation infrastructure creation, its utilization, diagnostic evaluation of the various per- formance indices (monitoring) are important to measure the efficiency. Benchmarking of Irrigation Systems (BIS) is for the diagnostic analysis of irrigation performance indicators comprising of Irrigation Infrastructure System (IIS), Agri- cultural System (AS), Water Delivery Dynamics (WDD). Since, the performance of an irrigation command varies with space and time, utilization of spatial information technologies viz. Remote Sensing (RS), Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) useful to provide spatial information on several indices in the proc- ess of benchmarking (BM). Information requirements for BIS at different stages, utilization of spatial information technologies to derive irrigation performance indicators was discussed with suitable examples and demonstrated in this study. The studies carried out indicates that the geospatia