In a new partnership between NASA and the University of Maryland, researchers in the department of geographical sciences have been tapped to lead a five-year, $15 million consortium to turn satellite data into down-to-earth, actionable information to support agriculture in the United States.
The as-yet unnamed consortium will expand upon the existing UMD-led global food security and agriculture program, NASA Harvest, with which it shares a common objective: to strengthen food security, agriculture and human and environmental resilience. Like NASA Harvest, which is entering its second…
