NASA Agriculture Activities

NASA Agriculture Activities

Harvest is the Agriculture program of NASA Applied Sciences, however a number of research projects and activities related to different aspects of agriculture can be found in other parts of the NASA Earth Sciences Division, for example under NASA Research and Analysis Program elements, other elements of the Applied Sciences Program, and at the NASA Centers. Similarly, NASA has a number of space-based instruments useful for agriculture and is generating data sets related to agriculture. These are highlighted below:

 

nasa ag activities

Water Resources Program

Western Water Applications (WWAO)

SERVIR

VALUABLES

Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET)

 

NASA RA

Land Cover Land Use Change Program (LCLUC)

Characterizing Field-Scale Water Use, Phenology and Productivity in Agricultural Landscapes Using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
The Agrarian Transition in Mainland Southeast Asia: Changes in Rice Farming - 1995 to 2018
Monitoring Abandoned Agriculture, Fallow Fields, and Grasslands with Landsat and Sentinel-2
Comprehensive Analysis of Thirty Years of Land Change in Georgia: Patterns, Carbon Dynamics and Drivers
An Operational Multisource Land Surface Phenology Product from Landsat and Sentinel 2
Crop Yield Assessment and Mapping by a Combined use of Landsat-8, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 Images
The Future of Food Security in India: Can Farmers Adapt to Environmental Change?
Understanding Changes in Agricultural Land Use and Land Cover in the Breadbasket Area of the Ganges Basin 2000-2015: A Socioeconomic-Ecological Analysis
Landscapes In Flux: The Influence of Demographic Change and Institutional Mechanisms on Land Cover Change, Climate Adaptability and Food Security in Rural India

Hydrological Sciences

Remote Sensing Etimate of Evapotranspiration Partitioning to Transpiration 17-THP17-0036
P-Band Signals of Opportunity for Remote Sensing of Root Zone Soil Moisture and Snow 17-THP17-0058
Root-Zone and Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval from I, P and S-band Signals of Opportunity (SoOp) Reflectometry 17-THP17-007

Terrestrial Ecology

Coupled Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Recharge from Remotely Sensed Land Surface Moisture and Temperature -- Farhadi (NIP 2017)
Evaluating Crop Productivity Using Solar Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measured From Ground and Space -- Frankenberg (CARBON 2016)
Quantifying the Magnitude of Agriculturally-Induced Soil Erosion by Integrating Satellite Observations, Airborne Lidar, and Laboratory Data -- Larsen (NIP 2017)
Improving retrievals of plant canopy variables from remote sensing data -- Levitan (NESSF 2017)
Closing the Methane Budget for the US Corn Belt and Upper Midwest -- Millet (IDS 2016)

 

NASA Centers with Ag Activities

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Ames Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
NASA Instruments and Data for Ag

LANDSAT

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)

ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS)

NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR)

Land, Atmosphere, Near Real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE)

Harmonized LANDSAT Sentinel-2 (HLS)