On the final day of the Pecora 2022 meeting in Denver, Colorado, NASA Harvest Deputy Director, Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, delivered a NASA Hyperwall talk on the consortium’s current progress in cropland and crop type mapping, yield forecasting, and regenerative agriculture, as well as where Harvest intends to expand in the future.
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The "lean season" in southern Madagascar - sometimes called the kere, or hunger - is the time of year when cattle thefts and conflict increase and food shortages intensify. The kere comes to the poorest parts of the Grand Sud every year, but food aid groups warn that the 2022 kere is poised to be particularly perilous. Harvest Early Warning Lead, Christina Justice, explains "there are still significant soil moisture deficits from the consecutive below-average seasons that will still need to be overcome. The high prices of fertilizer, seed, and gas could also cause problems for farmers.” |
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Multiple members of the NASA Harvest team spent the last week of October in Denver, Colorado attending the 2022 Pecora Meeting. The conference saw a number of Harvest consortium members on various panels, technical sessions, and NASA hyperwall talks. Additionally, in celebration of the NASA Landsat mission’s 50th birthday, Harvest organized a session highlighting how the Landsat mission has revolutionized agricultural monitoring over the half century. |
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Chris Justice, co-chair of the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM) and Chief Scientist of the NASA Harvest Consortium, was invited to the German Embassy to give a keynote address, kicking off a panel discussion on how developments in agricultural technologies are being used to monitor and improve global agricultural productivity and food security.
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NASA Harvest's Mehdi Hosseini is co-editing a special issue in the journal Remote Sensing. Editors for the special issue, Radar Remote Sensing for Monitoring Agricultural Management, are accepting submissions that showcase techniques in agricultural monitoring using radar remote sensing. They are particularly interested in studies that look at management techniques around tillage and irrigation; crop damage and phenological stage assessment; data fusion; and cloud computing processing pipelines. Submissions can include research articles, review articles, short communications, and technical notes. Manuscripts are accepted through May 31, 2023.
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Opportunity at the University of Idaho for post doc with remote sensing experience to work on a three year NASA funded project to harmonize MODIS and VIIRS burned area time series for use in climate analysis. The project aims to create the first global 30 year fire record conventionally required for climate analysis. The position is in the lab of Dr. Luigi Boschetti within the the College of Natural Resources. Successful applicants will have programming experience (R, GDAL, C, IDL); previous experience with MODIS and Landsat; first authored peer review publications; and has previously worked with time series analysis, data fusion, and applied statistics. Questions on the position can be sent to Luigi Boschetti (luigi@uidaho.edu). Interested applicants can apply here.
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The University of Maryland’s Center on Global Agricultural Monitoring Research is seeking an outstanding researcher at the Post-doctoral associate level with a strong interest in machine learning and agriculture to join a diverse team working on satellite remote sensing applications for agricultural monitoring and food security, within the framework of the NASA Harvest Program and an on-going collaborative project with FAO and funded by USAID, led by UMD’s Center for Global Agricultural Monitoring.
The successful candidate will work on research related to machine learning applications for crop production forecasting for agricultural systems at the sub-regional to national scale. This will involve developing and documenting models to forecast crop yields in order to inform key agricultural and food security decisions by a range of public and private stakeholders. This research will be carried out through the application of machine learning and process-based modeling techniques and the use of a wide range of satellite data, unique ground collected data-sets, global archives of diverse socio-economic data and statistics. Read the full job posting here.
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The Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland is searching for three new IT positions:
Senior Systems Engineer
Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for full life cycle management of the department Hadoop Clusters, Web servers, SFTP servers, database servers and VMware VDI environments including designing and setting up distributed computing, associate storage, security, patching and automation of configuration and deployment. Learn more and apply here.
Senior Storage Engineer
Sr. Storage Engineer is responsible for large PB scale storage environments in the department and GLAD environments. Learn more and apply here.
Senior Linux Engineer
Sr. Linux Engineer is responsible for full life cycle management of the department and GLAD HPC Linux environment including designing and setting up distributed computing, associate storage, security, patching and automation of configuration and deployment. Learn more and apply here.
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NASA Harvest and the Farmers Business Network are hosting a joint symposium at this year's Farmer2Farmer event, with a focus on climate impacts on agriculture. As severe weather events continue to increase and agricultural decision-making becomes even more complex, we will highlight satellite data applications for bolstering resilient farming systems into the future. |
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The American Geophysical Union's (AGU) annual fall meeting will be held in Chicago this year. As always, the meeting serves as an opportunity for scientists, policymakers, students, and organizations to connect and discuss leading research in the field of Earth science. NASA Harvest will be in attendance and information on our poster and oral sessions will be made available in advance. Looking forward to meeting you there! |
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