A joint initiative between the USGS and Ladies of Landsat to showcase the human dimension of Earth observation (EO) data recently published a video showcasing NASA Harvest Partner Dr. Jill Deines. The project seeks to create EO user case studies to better understand how EO data is used and valued. Dr. Crista Straub of USGS and Drs. Morgan Crowley and Kate Fickas of Ladies of Landsat worked together to collect interviews, analyze responses, and draft the storyboards for Heartwood Visuals, the company who produced the video. Ladies of Landsat is an international organization working to make the field of remote sensing more equitable and inclusive for underrepresented scientists. Ladies of Landsat Co-Lead Crowley is excited that “Through this collaborative series with USGS Human Dimensions, we can tell the amazing backstories of two members of the Ladies of Landsat community who are producing cutting-edge research using Landsat data.”
The video details Deine’s work using EO data to reconstruct crop yields over the past 20 years and drive sustainable agricultural decision-making that protects the environment and maintains farmer's livelihoods. A postdoc at Stanford’s Center for Food Security and the Environment working jointly with the NASA Harvest Consortium, Deines is enthusiastic about what the video represents, saying "Earth observation data is a key tool we have to manage agricultural resources, but many people may not know that you can use a satellite to inform on-the-ground management. I hope this USGS series helps increase awareness of how crucial NASA's earth-observing satellites and research programs are."
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NASA Harvest and CropX, a global leader in soil analytics for agriculture, have announced a strategic partnership. Combining the power of CropX soil data monitoring insights and NASA’s network of Earth-observing satellites, this partnership will deliver critical information to governments and farmers in support of informed and science-driven decision making.
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A recent study led by NASA Harvest's Dr. Sergii Skakun explores the utility of high resolution imagery in predicting corn and soybean yields. The team found that yield estimations increase in accuracy as the spatial resolution of the imagery increases. However, they also found that dense vegetation cover causes saturation effects in models that solely rely on satellite imagery, indicating that inclusion of other biophysical data is necessary for future studies.
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"We could definitely treat our planet better if we knew how it functions and if that knowledge was in the hands of people who are in a position to do something about it…This is what drives me, to try and get more and more people to know how much we can make things better by knowing how things are,” says Nakalembe.
Watch the full interview here.
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NASA Harvest partner Dr. Amy McNally recently co-authored a study exploring how NDVI and evapotranspiration compare in their ability to monitor vegetation conditions. Analyzing these measurements in different time periods and weather conditions, the study found that both variables have high accuracy in areas with moderate vegetation but results varied in areas with low and high amounts of vegetation cover.
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NASA Harvest congratulates our partners of Dagan Inc. for their successful merger with FluroSat. Together they have launched a new joint company, known as Regrow, combining the industry-leading expertise of FluroSat and Dagan to drive resilient agriculture adoption across the supply chain. Regrow’s digital platform combines agronomy and scenario planning with monitoring, reporting and verification.
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Edited by Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft and Dr. Ritvik Sahajpal, the Special Issue "Cropland Carbon" in the journal Land will focus on cropland carbon and how it can be impacted by regenerative agriculture (RA) techniques. This Special Issue is seeking submissions focused on the modeling of carbon in RA systems; the use of EO to monitor how crop productivity is affected by RA management techniques; linking climate change, food security, and soil degradation in traditional vs RA systems; and creating baseline spatio-temporal datasets on RA management practices.
Manuscript submission deadline EXTENDED through November 1, 2021.
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"Recent Advances for Crop Mapping and Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Data" is a Special Issue being published in Remote Sensing and edited by Dr. Mehdi Hosseini, Dr. Ritvik Sahajpal,and Dr. Hannah Kerner. This special issue is accepting submissions that demonstrate recent advances in EO applications in agriculture including "crop type mapping; crop yield prediction; cover crop mapping; crop residue monitoring; and crop water stress and disease monitoring." Papers utilizing advanced remote sensing techniques like multiresolution data fusion; SAR and optical data integration; and SAR polarimetry and interferometry are particularly welcome.
Manuscripts are accepted through Feb 28, 2022
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The new Section "Discoveries in Remote Sensing" was created with the goal of promoting diversity in science. It seeks innovative work on "remote sensing applications, technology, discussions, and ethics" produced by research teams embodying the Section's goal of transdisciplinary research and diverse perspectives. In an effort to broaden the field of submitted papers, the co-editors are offering a “Get one, Give one” where they match every paid manuscript accepted in the section with a processing fee waiver for another article. The editorial board is comprised of: Dr. Catherine Lilian Nakalembe, Dr. Karen Joyce, Ms. Morgan A. Crowley, Dr. Kate C. Fickas, Dr. Cristina Gómez, Dr. Meghan Halabisky, Dr. Michelle Kalamandeen, and Dr. Gopika Suresh.
The submission deadline for the “Get one” paper is August 31, 2021 and the submission deadline for the “Give one” paper is December 31, 2021. To get involved with the “Get one, Give one” offer, email cris.wang@mdpi.com.
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NASA Harvest’s AI Lead, Dr. Hannah Kerner, is curating new advancements in AI agricultural analysis in the journal AI in Food, Agriculture, and Water. Dr. Kerner, alongside her co-editors Dr. Lyndon Estes and Dr. Ernest Mwebaze, is currently leading a special issue on the topic “Advances in AI Applications for Small-scale Agricultural Systems”. They are accepting submissions that “demonstrate how AI can be combined with new data collection technologies to improve the ability to monitor, measure, and/or manage small-scale farms.” They are particularly interested in methods that have only become possible in the previous 3-5 years either through the development of new techniques or the creation of new data.
The submission deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2021 and for manuscripts is June 30, 2021. Those interested in submitting a manuscript can find more information here. Those who would face difficulty in publishing due to lack of financial support may request fee support here.
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The NASA Water Resources Application Area is hosting a virtual proposers event regarding the 2021 ROSES solicitation A.34 Earth Science Applications: Water Resources. The virtual meeting will occur on April 6 at 3pm EST and serves as an opportunity for proposers to gain more information regarding the solicitation. Program Manager Brad Doorn will provide a brief presentation followed by a Q&A session. Join the meeting here or email bradley.doorn@nasa.gov for additional details.
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This workshop seeks to imagine and shape how the scientific community can approach the challenge of high resolution imagery and big data processing without losing sight of likely societal questions and impacts. Join us at this virtual event for an interdisciplinary gathering of experts from the fields of image science, computer vision, high-performance computing, architecture, machine learning, advanced workflows, and societal AI challenges to discuss the Trillion-Pixel GeoAI Challenge.
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GRAVITY Challenge is a technology innovation program for corporates, entrepreneurs and universities to design solutions to real industrial, social and environmental problems using space enabled technology. NASA Harvest faces the challenge to correctly identify the crops detected in satellite imagery. To tackle this challenge, ground-based teams have collected additional data points in the format of images and other information to be mapped with the satellite data. Applications are open April 13-27.
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IGARSS 2021 Symposium will focus on crossing the borders that exist between countries and research institutes; different collection platforms; data sources; and disciplines. In an attempt to increase accessibility, IGARSS has created an online platform that will run concurrently with the in-person events in Brussels. More info can be found here.
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