IN54A:
Applications of Geospatial Data and Remote Sensing for Food Security II

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Session ID#: 33614

Session Description:
Global food security represents a major societal challenge for the coming decades. Growing human population, increased demand for water and energy, and a changing climate have contributed to expanded concerns centered on food supply, production, resiliency, and price volatility. Food security involves natural science, as well as social, economic, and political dimensions. Earth observations and Earth science data, models, and knowledge are essential to support the resilience of food systems, in areas such as estimation of crop intensities, agricultural productivity assessment, water planning, and crop yield modeling.

This session explores how geospatial data about the food system and Earth observation can be combined to transform food security. We invite submissions on: (i) the use of Earth observations for enhanced food security practices; (ii) effective approaches to enable sustained applications of Earth observations for food security; and (iii) impact assessment to quantify the benefits of Earth observations for food security.

Primary Convener:  Margaret Hurwitz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 614, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Conveners:  Danielle Wood1, Christa D Peters-Lidard1 and Bradley Doorn2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Margaret Hurwitz, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 614, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bradley Doorn, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bradley Doorn, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Enhancing Famine Early Warning Systems with Improved Forecasts, Satellite Observations and Hydrologic Simulations (Invited) (262474)
Chris C Funk1, James Verdin2, Wassila Mamadu Thiaw3, Andrew Hoell4, Driba Korecha5, Amy McNally6, Shraddhanand Shukla7, Kristi R Arsenault8, Tamuka Magadzire9, Nicholas Novella10, Christa D Peters-Lidard11, Miliaritiana Robjohn10, Catherine Pomposi12, Gideon Galu13, James Rowland14, Michael E Budde15, Martin Francis Landsfeld16, Laura Harrison17, Dr. Frank Davenport IV, PhD18, Gregory J Husak19 and Endalkachew Endalkachew10, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)US Agency for International Development, Washington, United States, (3)NOAA NWS Weather Prediction Center, College Park, United States, (4)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Meteorology Agency Ethiopia, Addis ababa, Ethiopia, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (7)UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)FEWS NET, Gaborone, Botswana, (10)Climate Prediction Center College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States, (13)FEWS NET, Nairobi, Kenya, (14)U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, United States, (15)Earth Resources Observation Systems Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, United States, (16)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, United States, (17)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (18)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (19)USGS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
A Novel Approach for Forecasting Crop Production and Yield Using Remotely Sensed Satellite Images (223864)
Ramesh K Singh, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States, Michael E Budde, Earth Resources Observation Systems Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, United States, Gabriel B Senay, Earth Resources Observation Systems Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and James Rowland, U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, United States
Development of a Global Evaporative Stress Index Based on Thermal and Microwave LST towards Improved Monitoring of Agricultural Drought (251944)
Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, United States, Jason Otkin, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, United States, Thomas R Holmes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Feng Gao, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, United States
Towards a Solid Foundation of Using Remotely Sensed Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Crop Monitoring and Yield Forecast (285263)
Yuyang Chen, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Ying Sun, Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Ithaca, United States, Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal and Yanyan Liu, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Monitoring the Impact of Climate Change on Soil Salinity in Agricultural Areas Using Ground and Satellite Sensors (Invited) (279920)
Dennis Lee Corwin, USDA-ARS, U.S. Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA, United States and Elia Scudiero, USDA-ARS, US Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA, United States

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