A new web-based platform called OpenET will soon be putting satellite data in the hands of farmers, water managers and conservation groups to accelerate improvements and innovations in water management.
Satellite images are helping to reveal how COVID-19 lockdown measures are impacting food security, urban surface heat, water quality and aquatic ecosystems, and more in NASA-funded studies.
USDA researcher Marsha Anderson uses satellites and instruments like Landsat and ECOSTRESS to see how stressed plants are from space.
Grape growers like Gallo are using data from Earth-observing satellites to better track soil and vine moisture levels, understand vine water use and plan grapevine irrigation.
A new satellite-driven biophysical model can make accurate forecasts of crop water use that are critical for farmland water management and sustainability.
With Landsat data, farmers can find new ways to grow more crops with less water.
IndigoAg is using HLS data to help fulfill its mission of making farms more profitable and sustainable.
New Mexico is one of the most arid states in the US, and precise and accurate information on water use is of utmost importance.
Landsat has helped map the expansion of intensive agriculture in arid Arequipa, Peru.
Remote sensing can aid the monitoring and evaluation of incentivized farming programs like the one in Maryland.
Farmers across the Midwest are in a race to finish harvesting their corn, soybean, and other staples of the Thanksgiving dinner table before the first crop killing freeze sets in.
Wyoming students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources are using Landsat images to gauge and improve lands owned by their families.
It started as an algorithm to detect clouds in satellite imagery, but now the software is being used for everything from increasing food security in the developing world to guiding futures trading on Wall Street.
The Landsat-based Rangeland Analysis Platform and Green-Cast are valuable tools for ranchers adaptively managing their land.
USGS EROS scientists are leveraging the capability and history of Landsat along with weather data to map landscape-wide water consumption.
Landsat thermal bands allow for the measurement of water use and moisture status at the management scale.
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.
Making annual high-resolution agricultural subsurface drainage maps for the Northern Great Plains regions using multiple satellite and model datasets with Google Earth Engine.
A robust detection method to track crop cover dynamics and identify the planting year through Landsat time series data.
Boston-based startup TellusLabs uses Landsat and MODIS images to predict corn and soy yields with remarkable accuracy.