Landsat's Role in Agriculture and Food Security
Worldwide, millions of people are helped by Landsat-data-based decisions that impact food and water management. Food and farming organizations rely on the unbiased, accurate and timely information provided by Landsat satellites. The data enable people to analyze the health and vigor of crops as they mature over the growing season; the needs of specific fields for fertilizer, irrigation and rotation; planted acreage to forecast crop production and fight crop insurance fraud; how much water is used in irrigation; and the impacts of drought.
![Landsat time-series images](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170502-nu3-1.png)
Revolutionizing Land Cover and Land Change Research
A new initiative called Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection provides definitive, timely information on how, why, and where the planet is changing.
![Landsat and Agriculture front cover](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20170329-nu1-232x300-1.png)
Landsat and Agriculture Case Studies
A team of economists from the USGS Fort Collins Science Center has published a new report on Landsat imagery use in agriculture.
![A soybean field in Nebraska](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AGU2016_Jill.Deines.2-1.png)
Mapping Croplands Over the U.S. High Plains Aquifer
Using Landsat to map croplands over the U.S. High Plains Aquifer.
![A wild Black-tailed Jackrabbit on the Colorado Plains.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AGU2016_Chandra.2-1.png)
Managing Brush on Western Rangelands
An approach for evaluating brush management conservation.
![A canal structure in the Palo Verde Irrigation District](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AGU2016_Gabriel-Senay.2-1.png)
Watching Water Use in the Southwest
Water use trends observed in the Southwestern U.S. over three decades.
![Kansas center pivot](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/kansas_AST_2001175_lrg_700px.png)
Agriculture: The View From Space
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations published an audio article about using geospatial data, including Landsat, to monitor would agriculture on soundcloud.