Monitoring Croplands with USDA’s Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System (GADAS)
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Keywords: Agriculture, GIS, Analysis, Imagery
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Lisa Colson, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
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The US Department of Agriculture’s International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) is part of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and is responsible for operationally publishing monthly production, area and yield estimates for 17 commodities in more than 150 countries. To carry out this mission, analysts from the USDA/FAS leverage a variety of decision-support systems, including Crop Explorer and the Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System (GADAS). Customers of USDA/FAS need rapid visualization of near-real time data (e.g. weather, soil moisture, disasters, or other crop conditions), whereas others need to conduct detailed satellite imagery investigations of in-season locations of crop conditions in a country (or within a region). One example will walk through using GADAS to explore Earth Observation data and check on current and historical crop conditions. Another example will use GADAS to assess real-time crop conditions during and after a disaster event. These examples will demonstrate the value and reliability of leveraging Earth observation data to continuously monitor the latest conditions of key global grain, oilseed, and fiber crops.
Monitoring Croplands with USDA’s Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System (GADAS)
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