Satellite Remote Sensing for Agricultural Applications
Start Date:
April 14, 2020
End Date:
May 5, 2020
City:
Online
Region:
Americas, Africa, Asia & Oceania, Europe
Description:
Since the launch of NASAs first Landsat mission in 1972, satellite imagery has been used for global agricultural monitoring, providing one of the longest operational applications for the Landsat program. Although satellite observations of land began with agricultural monitoring, only in recent years has agricultural remote sensing seen reinvigoration among space agencies, national ministries of agriculture, and global initiatives. To monitor agricultural systems, NASA utilizes satellite observations to assess a wide variety of geophysical and biophysical parameters, including: precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and vegetation health.
Past ARSET webinars on land and water resources covered remote sensing-derived parameters relevant to agriculture within a broader scope. This 4-part introductory webinar will focus on data products, data access, and case-studies demonstrating how remote sensing data can be used for decision-making among the agriculture and food security communities.
This training will address how to use remote sensing data for agriculture monitoring, specifically drought and crop monitoring. The webinar will also provide end-users the ability to evaluate which regions of the world agricultural productivity is above or below long-term trends. This informs decisions pertaining to market stability and humanitarian relief.
Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.
Course Dates: April 14, 21, 28, and May 5, 2020
Times: 10:00-11:30 & 16:00-17:30 EDT (UTC-4); There will be identical sessions at two different times of the day
Targeted Audience:
Local, state, federal, private, and non-governmental organizations involved in agricultural monitoring, agricultural policy, food security, agricultural insurance, and humanitarian relief.
Host:
NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET)
