Watch Video: Earth Observation Technology Advances Agricultural Monitoring

At the 2021 Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference, Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, a GEOG alumna and the deputy director of NASA Harvest, spoke to the importance of Earth observation technology in service of the public good, improved agricultural monitoring for food security applications, and farming resilience.

Dr. Whitcraft serves as NASA Harvest Deputy Director and is the program's sustainable and regenerative agriculture lead. NASA Harvest is NASA's Food Security and Agriculture consortium, led and implemented by researchers of the Department of Geographical Sciences.

Dr. Whitcraft focuses on agriculture and the monitoring and mapping of agricultural characteristics and processes worldwide. She has spent most of her career leading efforts to define Earth observations data requirements for global agricultural monitoring, and working with space agencies through CEOS in order to increase acquisition of, availability and continuity of, and access to consistently pre-processed satellite data sets for agriculture. In this vein, she is the agriculture point of contact for the CEOS Ad Hoc Team on and GEOGLAM lead GEOGLAM's Earth observation data coordination activity. 

Published on Wed, Jan 12, 2022 - 2:39PM