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.
The Shifting Irrigation Patterns of the U.S. High Plains Aquifer
A new method to use the full Landsat archive to produce annual maps of irrigated area over the High Plains Aquifer in the central United States.
Improving Water Resource Management in the Great Plains
Making annual high-resolution agricultural subsurface drainage maps for the Northern Great Plains regions using multiple satellite and model datasets with Google Earth Engine.
Towards Agricultural Sustainability of Fruit and Nut Trees in California’s Central Valley
A robust detection method to track crop cover dynamics and identify the planting year through Landsat time series data.
Earth Images Enable Near-Perfect Crop Predictions
Boston-based startup TellusLabs uses Landsat and MODIS images to predict corn and soy yields with remarkable accuracy.
Landsat Imagery Sheds Light on Agricultural Water Use
Researchers armed with data from the Landsat Earth-observing satellites recently teamed up with Google to track water used for irrigation.
Farm Crops for City Drops: Assessing Water Right Transfers With Landsat
Thirty-one years of observed water use trends in the Southwestern U.S.
