Ag21: Jack Estes, NASA NRA for Agriculture, Forestry, and Rangelands

Proceedings of the Workshop on Remote Sensing for Agriculture in the 21st Century October 23-25th, 1996 Jack Estes UC Santa Barabara	\| Ag 21 Agenda \|
NASA NRA for Agriculture, Forestry, and Rangelands

Objectives:
The objective of this meeting is to develop a prioritized list of topics for a NASA research announcement in the areas of agriculture, forestry, and rangeland

NASA NRA for Agriculture, Forestry, and Rangelands

Topics for the Introduction
Spatial Data Input Primitives (measurements)
Multiscale Mapping & Inventory (maps)
Monitoring and Change Detection
Decision Support Models
Land Cover Conversion
Cross Cutting Issues
Contributors

Topics for the Introduction

Acceptable data sources (must have at least one MTPE data source)
Rapid turn-around/timeliness of delivery
Lack of product development
Integration of multiple scale source and temporal data
Feasibility of accuracy evaluations
Proposal driving factor (technology for applications not applications for technology)
Maximization of existing research and technology
Realistic completion schedules
Proposed performance evaluation parameters (metrics)
Project feasibility (is continued use feasible)
Project benefits
Need to take science results into the commercial market place

Spatial Data Input Primitives (measurements)

Detecting leaf water content
Temperature measurements (soil, air, crop)
Topography
Solar Insolation
Soil Moisture
Precipitation estimates
Water resource assessment
Soil characteristics and quality surveys
Biomass and productivity

Multiscale Mapping & Inventory (maps)

Post disaster damage detection and assessment
Fire risk assessment
Crop type identification
Land cover
Forest/range species identification
Forest location, extent, and density
Forest/range inventory
Pattern recognition
Data integration
Visualization techniques for multi-source data
Development and evaluation of textural and contextual classifiers

Monitoring and Change Detection

Fire detection and tracking
Detecting vegetation stress and damage
Crop area monitoring
Plant vigor and health
Regulation compliance
Soil inventories and monitoring
Wildlife habitat analysis
Forest growth and maturity monitoring
Forest damage detection and assessment
Environmental impact assessment

Decision Support Models

Fire risk assessment
Fire behavior modeling
Irrigation management
Crop management
Hydrologic management
Regional yield estimates
Wildlife habitat analysis
Validation and accuracy assessment
Application cost-benefit analysis
Crop/growth yield modeling
Precision agriculture

Land Cover Conversion

Urban encroachment
Deforestation
Reforestation
Biodiversity/protected area boundaries
Changes in cropping patterns/practices

Cross Cutting Issues

Community Outreach

Technology transfer
Public access and awareness programs
Industry cooperative research
Application utility assessment
Application assessment and cataloguing

Global Concerns

Property rights
Data rights

Contributors

Alexander Tuyahov NASA	George May Space Remote Sensing Center
Chris J. Johannsen Purdue University	George Seielstad University of North Dakota
John E. Estes University of California	Gavin McGhie University of California
Marvin Bauer University of Minnesota	Michael Lawless University of California
Roger Hoffer Colorado State University	Steven M. Clester University of California
Steve Running University of Montana	Gregory Husak University of California
Tom Gilding American Crop Protection Association	Melissa Kelly University of California

Proceedings of the Workshop on Remote Sensing for Agriculture in the 21st Century

Jack Estes

NASA NRA for Agriculture, Forestry, and Rangelands