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NASA Harvest is NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program0. Harvest's mission is to enable and advance the adoption of satellite Earth observations by public and private organizations to benefit food security, agriculture, and human and environmental resiliency in the US and worldwide. We accomplish this through a multidisciplinary and multisectoral Consortium of leading scientists and agricultural stakeholders, led by researchers at the University of Maryland and implemented with our global partners.

AI applications using satellite Earth observations (EO) are revolutionizing agriculture monitoring and playing critical roles in all aspects of food security monitoring - availability, access, stability, and utilization. EO data make critical information and data necessary to understand the status of these aspects more available, timely, reproducible, scalable, and accurate 1. Advances in remote sensing (spatial and temporal resolution) and computational capabilities make EO information more accessible and useful for food security decisions even in previously excluded and under-resourced geographies2.

High-priority products required for operational agriculture monitoring include cropland masks, crop type maps, crop conditions, crop yield forecast, soil moisture, rainfall, temperature, and evapotranspiration 3. Satellite data products used to achieve these high-priority products are defined as essential agricultural variables (EAV) 4. This page overviews key AI-EO applications and products.

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Key AI-EO Applications

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0 :Becker-Reshef, Inbal, et al. "The NASA Harvest Harvest Program on Agriculture Agriculture and Food Security Food security Harvest Agriculture." Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. 53-80.

1 : Becker-Reshef, Inbal, et al. "Strengthening agricultural decisions in countries at risk of food insecurity: The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning." Remote Sensing of Environment 237 (2020): 111553.

2 : Nakalembe, Catherine, et al. "A review of satellite-based global agricultural monitoring systems available for Africa." Global Food Security 29 (2021): 100543.

3 : (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/evapotranspiration) ([Whitcraft et al., 2019]

4 : (GEOGLAM, 2019)

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