Our mission is to enable and advance adoption of satellite Earth observations by public and private organizations to benefit food supply, agricultural production, market stability, and human resilience.

NASA Harvest's goal is to broaden the use of Earth observations (EO) for food supply applications, decreasing market volatility, and monitoring crop productivity across the globe — driven by user-identified needs.

Commissioned by NASA in 2017, Harvest is a multidisciplinary consortium of agriculture and remote sensing experts working with farmers, agribusinesses, economists, humanitarian organizations, governments, technology developers, and decision makers to deliver critical agriculture assessments.

Harvest operates via grant funding, primarily supported by NASA's Applied Sciences Agriculture Program Area (#80NSSC23M0032). The consortium’s administrative and management hub is based at the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences.

Given the exceptionally high demand for EO-derived agriculture information, consortium partnerships are customized to most efficiently leverage available resources. Common partnership structures to support new projects include seeking joint funding, co-hiring, and in-kind exchanges.

Our work is driven by user-identified needs, co-developing Harvest projects through strong partnerships across the public and private sectors. Our collaborations span industries such as agricultural insurance, early warning and disaster response, global trade, and major policy frameworks at national, regional, and global levels.