NASA Harvest at AGU 2024

NASA Harvest and our sister consortium, NASA Acres, have teamed up to jointly convene a session at the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting in Washington D.C. Our session will showcase how Earth observations are revolutionizing agriculture and food security across the globe. We look forward to creating a space where conference attendees can learn about new findings, methods, datasets, and challenges in the field of remote sensing for agriculture!

The NASA Harvest/NASA Acres joint session “Satellite Solutions: Advancing Agriculture Monitoring Through Remote Sensing” includes a poster session on Monday, December 9 in Poster Hall B-C from 13:40 - 17:30.

We also host three oral sessions on Tuesday, December 10 in Salon H. The first oral session is from 8:30 - 10:00 and focuses on US agriculture, the second will focus on international agriculture and runs from 10:20 - 11:50, and our final oral session is from 14:10 - 15:40 with a focus on emerging technologies in agricultural monitoring.

Below we’ve gathered NASA Harvest and food security-affiliated presentations of interest, including those taking place during a variety of different sessions throughout the week.

We look forward to seeing you at AGU 2024!

Day	Time	Presentation Name	Main Presenter	Session ID	Oral or Poster	In Harvest/Acres Joint Session
Monday	09:15 - 09:25	There and back again: challenges, encounters, and projects that transformed the NASA Harvest ML team over the last 5 years (Invited)	Hannah Kerner	U11A-04	Oral	No
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Enhancing Crop Type Mapping with Thermal Time Accumulated Feature Design	Abhishek Kotcharlakota	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Deriving Wintertime Agricultural Land Cover Endmembers and Phenology in Missouri, USA	Allison Thieme	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Strengthening Food Security in Maui County: Integrating Earth Observations, Machine Learning, and Local Knowledge	Ana Tarano	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Redefining Agro-Climatical Zones: A New Crop Calendar delimitation-based Approach for the WorldCereal Project	Andreu Guillem-Valls	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Empowering Agricultural Monitoring in Latin America: Collaborative Synergies with Local and Global Partners through NASA Harvest LAC	Antonio Sanchez	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Whose Priorities? Examining Inequities in Earth Observation Advancements Across Africa	Catherine Nakalembe	GC13H	Poster	No
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Enhancing WorldCereal Global Crop Calendars through Integration of Land Surface Phenology and Machine Learning	Italo Moletto-Lobos	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Multi-Modal Harvest Monitoring at Regional and Field Scales in the Absence of Ground Truth Data	Manav Gupta	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Using RADARSAT Constellation Mission and Sentinel-1A for Crop Planting and Harvest Detections	Mehdi Hosseini	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Assessing maize field losses in Southern Ukraine due to the ongoing war	Mohammad Abdul Qadir Khan	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Evaluation of VIIRS and MODIS surface reflectance for yield estimation at different spatial scales across the USA	Natacha Kalecinski	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Monday	13:40 - 17:30	Generation of pixel-level sowing dates from sub-national sowing window estimates using weather and remote sensing data	Nikhil Sasi Rajan	GC13O	Poster	Yes
Tuesday	08:30 - 08:42	NASA Acres: Critical steps toward advancing satellite data’s value for U.S. agriculture	Alyssa Whitcraft	GC21G-01	Oral	Yes
Tuesday	08:30 - 12:20	GEOGLAM Crop Monitor: Coordinated global agricultural monitoring in support of food security	Christina Justice	NH21E	Poster	No
Tuesday	08:30 - 12:20	Mapping of winter wheat in the North China Plain using Landsat GCVI data	Fangjie Li	B21O	Poster	No
Tuesday	10:20 - 10:32	Rapid Agricultural Assessments in Support of Agricultural Policy and Food Security	Inbal Becker-Reshef	GC22E-01	Oral	Yes
Tuesday	10:32 - 10:45	Advancing Field-Scale Yield Prediction for Data-Limited Agricultural Regions	Yuval Sadeh	GC22E-02	Oral	Yes
Tuesday	10:45 - 10:58	Estimation of wheat area in Ukraine using remote sensing data	Sergii Skakun	GC22E-03	Oral	Yes
Tuesday	10:58 - 11:11	Wheat yield monitoring based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at field scale. Studying the transferability at regional scale using ARYA	Belen Franch	GC22E-04	Oral	Yes
Tuesday	14:45 - 14:56	Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of the War through Cropland Abandonment in Ukraine	Josef Wagner	GC23M-04	Oral	Yes
Tuesday	14:56 - 15:07	Using Transfer Learning to Map Winter Wheat Yields in Ukraine	Yuchi Ma	GC23M-05	Oral	Yes
Tuesday	15:07 - 15:18	A Color-Based Approach to Identify Agro-Mechanical Operations Across Different Scales for Regenerative Agriculture Monitoring	Ran Pelta	GC23M-06	Oral	Yes
Wednesday	08:30 - 12:20	Pre-War Urban Development across Ukraine: Analyzing Trends from 2016 to 2021	Yiming Zhang	GC31T	Poster	No
Wednesday	08:50 - 09:00	Wheat on Fire – Analysis of Burned Fields on the Ukrainian Frontline	Leonid Shumilo	GC31J-03	Oral	No
Wednesday	10:55 - 11:05	A Simple Way to Rate AI-Readiness for Scientific Benchmarks (Invited)	Ivan Zvonkov	IN32A-04	Oral	No
Wednesday	13:40 - 17:30	Rapid Assessment of 2024 Kenya Flood Impacts on Croplands Using SAR Remote Sensing	Catherine Nakalembe	NH33A	Poster	No
Wednesday	13:40 - 17:30	Quantifying the Impact of Conflict on Agricultural Land in Sudan Using Machine Learning and Earth Observation Data	Gedeon Muhawenayo	GC33O	Poster	No
Wednesday	13:40 - 17:30	Analyzing Economic Activity During War in Ukraine Using Nightlight Satellite Data	Nataliia Kussul	GC33O	Poster	No
Wednesday	13:40 - 17:30	Case Study: Public-Private Partnerships Delivering Efficient Analytics in Ukraine During Wartime	Oleksandra Oliinyk	GC33O	Poster	No
Wednesday	13:40 - 17:30	Millions of Artillery Craters in the Agricultural Fields Impact Crop Production in Ukraine Due to the Ongoing War	Sergii Skakun	GC33O	Poster	No
Wednesday	13:40 - 17:30	Destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir in 2023 continues to desiccate agricultural lands in Southeastern Ukraine	Sheila Baber	GC33O	Poster	No
Wednesday	16:10 - 16:20	From use-inspired to user-adopted: how to bridge the chasm between AI for Earth observation research and real-world impact (Invited)	Hannah Kerner	IN34A-02	Oral	No
Thursday	08:30 - 12:20	Analysis of future impacts of flooding on agricultural lands in the lower Niger River basin, Nigeria, under climate change.	Akinola Adesuji Komolafe	NH41F	Poster	No
Friday	08:30 - 10:30	An open-access subnational crop statistics dataset for climate-smart analyses in Africa	Weston Anderson	GC51C-07	Oral	No
Friday	08:30 - 12:20	In-Season Sentinel-1 Winter Cropland Mapping	Christian Abys	GC51K	Poster	No
Friday	08:30 - 12:20	Assessing the Impact of War on Land Use Change in Ukraine	Nataliia Kussul	GC51K	Poster	No
Friday	13:40 - 17:30	Reconciling Remote Sensing and Survey-based Cropland Area Estimates in Africa	Adebowale Daniel Adebayo	GC53F	Poster	No
Friday	13:40 - 17:30	A Scalable Regional Yield Sampling Framework for East and Southern Africa	Diana Botchway Frimpong	GC53G	Poster	No
Friday	13:40 - 17:30	Generating Crop Type Datasets with Helmet-Mounted GoPros and Deep Learning	Ivan Zvonkov	GC53G	Poster	No
Friday	13:40 - 17:30	Strengthening Agri-Foods Data Systems to Inform Food Security Policies and Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa with Earth Observations and Machine Learning	Matthew Oke	GC53D	Poster	No