Untapping the potential for wider use of Earth Observation in Monitoring Agriculture Production Nov 21, 2018 There is international consensus that timely and transparent information on crop conditions and production prospects is more critical than ever. Such information has a key role to play in ensuring market transparency and stability, providing early warning of food shortages to guide humanitarian… Read more
	Review finds fundamental gaps and new opportunities for world’s agricultural monitoring systems Nov 15, 2018 The world’s agricultural monitoring systems provide up-to-date information on food production to decision makers that is crucial to global and national food security. When prices become dangerously volatile—as they did during the food price crisis of 2007-2011—these systems spread critical… Read more
	NASA harvest partners present at the ASA-CSSA 2018 special session symposium Nov 9, 2018 A special symposium on “Advances in the Use of Earth Observations for Crop Modeling and Monitoring for Food Security” was organized by NASA harvest partners (Dr. Chris Justice and Dr. Varaprasad Bandaru of the UMD Harvest Hub) along with Dr. Jerry Hatfield, a member of the AgMIP Executive… Read more
	Global Hydrologic dataset released Nov 1, 2018 Harvest partner Amy McNally of NASA Goddard Hydrologic Sciences Lab and FEWS NET recently released a new, 10km global hydrologic dataset derived from CHIRPS rainfall, MERRA-2 meteorology… Read more
	A new partnership to deploy sustainable hi-tech automated agro-meteorological stations for improved Ag-decisions in East Africa Oct 25, 2018 The Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is working to improve agricultural decision-making.  MoA has been working with the University of Maryland since 2014 to use remote sensing data and information to report on crop conditions, using the Tanzania GEOGLAM Crop Monitor System and the Global… Read more