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People Of Harvest Interview Series: Mehdi Hosseini

Jan 27, 2022

NASA Harvest, NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program, is a global consortium with contributions from people of many different backgrounds, specialties, and interests. What unites us all is a dedication to bolstering food security around the world through Earth… Read more

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NASA Harvest Leads Training on the Application of EO Indicators to Agricultural Monitoring for Southern Africa Early Action Community

Jan 25, 2022

Agrometeorological (AgMet) Indicators from Earth Observations (EO) provide critical information to monitor and track crop conditions throughout a growing season. Improved monitoring capabilities and better understanding of crop… Read more

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NASA Harvest Partners at Stanford Expand Lidar Applications to Create Wall-to-Wall Crop Type Mapping

Jan 21, 2022

 

NASA Harvest partners at Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) recently published a study on their efforts integrating lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) and… Read more

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NASA Harvest and USDA Release Water Use and Crop Yield Simulator

Jan 18, 2022

NASA Harvest, in partnership with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, is pleased to announce GEO-CropSim, a modeling framework for assessing… Read more

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Can we monitor climate and food crisis risks in real time?

Jan 10, 2022

According to the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC),  155 million people in 55 countries and territories in 2020 faced acute food insecurity and were in need of urgent… Read more