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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new method for accurately measuring crop yields using satellite images. Scientists hope their new strategy will help researchers track agricultural productivity in developing countries where farming data is limited.

“Improving agricultural productivity is going to be one of the main ways to reduce hunger and improve livelihoods in poor parts of the world,” Marshall Burke, an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Stanford, said in a news release. “But to improve agricultural productivity, we first have to measure it, and unfortunately this isn’t done on most farms around the world.”

Until recently, the resolution of satellite images wasn’t sufficient for the kind of analysis proposed by Burke and his colleagues. Now, satellites the size of a toaster can take and send high-resolution photographs of Earth’s surface.

“You can get lots of them up there, all capturing very small parts of the land surface at very high resolution,” said David Lobell, an associate professor of earth sciences. “Any one satellite doesn’t give you very much information, but the constellation of them actually means that you’re covering most of the world at very high resolution and at very low cost. That’s something we never really had even a few years ago.”

Researchers tested their crop yield prediction strategy in Western Kenya where small farms are plentiful. They combined on-the-ground field work, meeting and interviewing local farmers, with a model designed to interpret satellite images. The model uses local weather conditions and an understanding of how crops develop to predict yields based on satellite images.

Scientists used their field work to verify the accuracy of their new model, described in the journal PNAS.

“Just combining the imagery with computer-based crop models allows us to make surprisingly accurate predictions, just based on the imagery alone, of actual productivity on the field,” Burke concluded.

Turkey and Lobell are now working on scaling up their predictive model to measure yields in other parts of Africa.

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DigitalGlobe, Inc., the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the launch of a new product, SecureWatch, optimized for International Defense and Intelligence customers.

SecureWatch is a web-based subscription service that gives intelligence agencies and defense organizations access to DigitalGlobe’s industry-leading 7 billion sq. km. imagery library and millions of square kilometers of daily image collections.

SecureWatch capabilities are designed with the flexibility to evolve to meet a growing market demand for a single platform that fuses multi-source geospatial intelligence content including satellite imagery at various resolutions and refresh intervals, geographic information system layers, tactically significant news stories, timely social media posts, real-time transportation data, and more.

“Our customers have a demanding job, and they deserve the best information available to face threats across both maritime and terrestrial borders from terrorism, humanitarian crisis, and natural disasters,” said Dan Jablonsky, DigitalGlobe Senior Vice President of International Defense and Intelligence. “With SecureWatch, our customers will now have 24/7 access to tap into and download the latest available satellite imagery, so they can focus on mission success.”

Images from the complete constellation of DigitalGlobe Earth observation satellites, including WorldView-4 (30 cm), WorldView-3 (30 cm), WorldView-2 (46 cm), GeoEye-1 (40 cm), WorldView-1 (50 cm) and legacy satellites, are available through SecureWatch. Customers can view imagery anywhere on the globe at high resolution, simply using a web browser. Subscribers can also stream images to preferred image exploitation software such as Esri ArcGIS and Textron RemoteView, or they can download for use in offline workflows.

“Most imagery services limit customers to specific geographic areas, or only provide imagery at degraded resolutions. SecureWatch uniquely leverages the power of cloud computing and the world’s best constellation of satellite imaging assets,” said John Cartwright, DigitalGlobe Vice President of International Defense and Intelligence Product Strategy. “This combination of technologies provides our mission partners with authoritative intelligence by enabling them to visualize any location in the world as it looked two days ago or years ago, and at 30 cm resolution, the sharpest imagery commercially available.”

In addition to accessing imagery, the tools included with a subscription to SecureWatch enable a wide variety of intelligence workflows to give users confidence when making the decisions that matter most. With just a web browser and Internet access, users can accurately measure coordinates, create annotated image graphics for reports and briefings, produce videos that show how areas have changed over time, and remotely view imagery from a smartphone or tablet when working in the field.

“We believe that these new capabilities will make the power of commercial satellite imagery accessible to many more stakeholders in the production and consumption of intelligence,” said Dan Jablonsky. “When our mission partners work with SecureWatch, they will find they are more empowered than ever to solve and communicate the challenges we face on our complex and changing planet.”

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Stanford researchers have developed a new way to estimate crop yields from space, using high-res photos snapped by a new wave of compact satellites.

The approach, detailed in the February 13 issue of the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be used to estimate agricultural productivity and test intervention strategies in poor regions of the world where data are currently extremely scarce.

“Improving agricultural productivity is going to be one of the main ways to reduce hunger and improve livelihoods in poor parts of the world,” said study-coauthor Marshall Burke, an assistant professor in the department of Earth System Science at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. “But to improve agricultural productivity, we first have to measure it, and unfortunately this isn’t done on most farms around the world.”

Earth-observing satellites have been around for over three decades, but most of the imagery they capture has not been high-enough resolution to visualize the very small agricultural fields typical in developing countries. Recently, however, satellites have shrunk in both size and cost while simultaneously improving in resolution, and today there are several companies competing to launch refrigerator- and shoebox-sized satellites into space that take high resolution images of the earth.

“You can get lots of them up there, all capturing very small parts of the land surface at very high resolution,” said study-coauthor David Lobell, an associate professor in the Department of Earth System Science. “Any one satellite doesn’t give you very much information, but the constellation of them actually means that you’re covering most of the world at very high resolution and at very low cost. That’s something we never really had even a few years ago.”

In the new study, Burke and Lobell set out to test whether the images from this new wave of satellites are good enough reliably estimate crop yields. The pair focused on an area in Western Kenya where there are a lot of smallholder farmers that grow maize, or corn, on small, half-acre or one-acre lots. “This was an area where there was already a lot of existing field work,” Lobell said. “It was an ideal site to test our approach.”

The scientists compared two different methods for estimating agricultural productivity yields using satellite imagery. The first approach involved “ground truthing,” or conducting ground surveys to check the accuracy of yield estimates calculated using the satellite data, which was donated by the company Terra Bella. For this part of the study, Burke and his field team spent weeks conducting house-to-house surveys with his staff, talking to farmers and gathering information about individual farms.

“We get a lot of great data, but it’s incredibly time consuming and fairly expensive, meaning we can only survey at most a thousand or so farmers during one campaign,” Burke said. “If you want to scale up our operation, you don’t want to have to recollect ground survey data everywhere in the world.”

For this reason, the team also tested an alternative “uncalibrated” approach that did not depend on ground survey data to make predictions. Instead, it uses a computer model of how crops grow, along with information on local weather conditions, to help interpret the satellite imagery and predict yields.

“Just combining the imagery with computer-based crop models allows us to make surprisingly accurate predictions, just based on the imagery alone, of actual productivity on the field,” Burke said.

The researchers have plans to scale up their project and test their approach across more of Africa. “Our aspiration is to make accurate seasonal predictions of agricultural productivity for every corner of Sub-Saharan Africa,” Burke said. “Our hope is that this approach we’ve developed using satellites could allow a huge leap in in our ability to understand and improve agricultural productivity in poor parts of the world.”

Lobell is also the deputy director of Stanford’s the Center on Food Security and the Environment and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

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The Louisiana coastline is sinking under the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of about one football field of land every hour (about 18 square miles of land lost in a year).

But within this sinking region, two river deltas are growing. The Atchafalaya River and its diversion channel, Wax Lake Outlet, are gaining about one football field of new land every 11 and 8 hours, respectively (1.5 and 2 square miles per year).

Last fall, a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, showed that radar, lidar and spectral instruments mounted on aircraft can be used to study the growing deltas, collecting data that can help scientists better understand how coastal wetlands will respond to global sea level rise.

The basics of delta building are understood, but many questions remain about how specific characteristics, such as vegetation types, tides, currents and the shape of the riverbed, affect a delta’s growth or demise. That’s partly because it’s hard to do research in a swamp.

“These factors are usually studied using boats and instruments that have to be transported through marshy and difficult terrain,” said Christine Rains of JPL, an assistant flight coordinator for the program. “This campaign was designed to show that wetlands can also be measured with airborne remote sensing over a large area.”

JPL researchers fly over the Louisiana coastline at least once a year to keep track of subsidence (sinking) and changes in levees. The most recent airborne flights, however, focused on the growing deltas – specifically, flowing water and vegetation.

JPL’s Marc Simard, principal investigator for the campaign, explained that on a delta, water flows in every direction, including uphill. “Water flows not only through the main channels of the rivers but also through the marshes,” he explained. “There is also the incoming tide, which pushes water back uphill. The tide enhances the flow of water out of the main channels into the marshes.”

When the tide goes out, water drains from the marshes, carrying sediment and carbon. The JPL instruments took measurements during both rising and falling tides to capture these flows. They also made the first complete measurement of the slope of the water surface and topography of the river bottom for both rivers from their origin at the Mississippi River to the ocean – necessary information for understanding the rivers’ flow speeds.

Some types of marsh vegetation resist flowing water better than others, as the new measurements have documented. Simard said, “We were really surprised and impressed by how the water level changes within the marshes. In some places, the water changes by 10 centimeters [four inches] in an hour or two. In others, it’s only three or four centimeters [an inch or inch-and-a-half]. You can see amazing patterns in the remote sensing measurements.”

Three JPL airborne instruments, flying on three planes, were needed to observe the flows and the movement of carbon with the water. The team measured rising and falling water in vegetated areas using the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) instrument.

They measured the same changes in open water with the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) lidar. The Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) was used to estimate the sediment, carbon and nitrogen concentrations in the water.

Now that the team has demonstrated that these airborne instruments can make precise and detailed measurements in this difficult environment, the researchers plan to use the new data to improve models of how water flows through marshes. Scientists use these models to study how coastal marshes will cope with rising sea levels. With so many measurements available as a reality check, Simard said, “Our models will have to catch up with the observations now.”

View a slideshow of the growth of the two deltas over the last 30 years

BOX IT The Atchafalaya, the Mississippi and unintended consequences

If humans hadn’t intervened, the Atchafalaya River would now be the Mississippi River’s outlet to the Gulf of Mexico. The river has changed channels this way six or eight times over the last 5,000 years, but not since European settlers moved in. By the 1960s, the Atchafalaya had captured about 30 percent of the Mississippi’s flow.

Then engineers went to work. With levees, locks and other structures, they preserved the status quo in concrete. The Atchafalaya still diverts about 30 percent of water from the Mississippi, and the rest still flows down the historic channel. The intervention saved New Orleans and Baton Rouge from being marooned on a giant swamp.

For the two rivers, the new construction had completely different effects. Limiting the volume of the Atchafalaya has kept it and its diversion channel, Wax Lake Outlet, flowing more slowly. In those lazy rivers, sediment can settle and marsh plants can take root, forming new wetlands.

On the Mississippi, levees trap sediment, limiting the material for new soil downstream. Levees also accelerate the river’s flow speed so that remaining sediment gets shot out the river’s mouth into the ocean depths. The Mississippi has lost its capacity to build wetlands naturally.

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(February 13, 2017) WESTMINSTER, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, announced a partnership with Esri and Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), which will enable Esri users to access DigitalGlobe’s 17-year, time-lapse library of high-resolution satellite imagery and the analytical and deep learning tools needed to unlock actionable insights from that imagery at scale.

The new AllAccess+Analytics service integrates DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform, GBDX, with Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 platform and Harris’ ENVI remote sensing analytics portfolio. This offering allows subscribers to select DigitalGlobe imagery for hosting in the GBDX platform and to leverage GBDX machine learning algorithms, including capabilities developed by DigitalGlobe’s ever-growing ecosystem of GBDX developers, Esri Raster Analytics, and ENVI analytics in an integrated environment. Users will be able to access and define the analytics to be performed within their federated enterprise GIS to gain new insights from Earth observation data.

“The AllAccess+Analytics offering will allow subscribers to tap into more than 100 petabytes of the world’s highest-quality commercial satellite imagery and the industry’s most advanced analytic and machine learning tools,” said John-Isaac Clark, head of Platform Product Development at DigitalGlobe. “By integrating directly with the Esri environment used by tens of thousands GIS professionals every day, we are making it easier to access our industry-leading image library and answer complex questions at global scale with world-class analytical capabilities.”

“AllAccess+Analytics truly makes the massive temporal archive of DigitalGlobe imagery quickly accessible both for viewing and analysis,” said Peter Becker, Product Manager for Imagery at Esri. “By running ArcGIS Image Server next to the cloud storage, access to the information content in the imagery is significantly improved.”

The AllAccess+Analytics subscription service will be sold by DigitalGlobe to Esri customers licensed for ArcGIS Image Server 10.5 (deployed in Amazon Web Services US-EAST-1 region). The service will be launched to a select number of initial customers in the coming months, with broader availability later in the year. Click here to learn more about the service and request an invitation to join the program.

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The quantity and quality of satellite-geodetic measurements of tectonic deformation have increased dramatically over the past two decades improving our ability to observe active tectonic processes.

We now routinely respond to earthquakes using satellites, mapping surface ruptures and estimating the distribution of slip on faults at depth for most continental earthquakes. Studies directly link earthquakes to their causative faults allowing us to calculate how resulting changes in crustal stress can influence future seismic hazard. This revolution in space-based observation is driving advances in models that can explain the time-dependent surface deformation and the long-term evolution of fault zones and tectonic landscapes.

The next decade should see us begin to discriminate between earthquake models using more and better Earth Observation data that describe the evolution of deformation in space and time for an increasing number of earthquake faults. The models make specific predictions about the temporal and spatial behavior of deformation that can be discriminated with long time-series of observations. At the same time, complementary data from seismic imaging and rheological constraints from rock mechanics will be vital in solving this problem.

Satellite geodesy offers the opportunity to measure the complete earthquake cycle: first, coseismic slip in the seismogenic upper crust, its relationship with aftershocks and fault segmentation; second, postseismic deformation localized on fault structures as shallow and deep afterslip, or more widely distributed through the ductile lower crust and upper mantle flow as viscoelastic relaxation; and third, interseismic strain accumulation across fault zones between earthquakes. By using the high spatial and temporal resolution of satellite observations, it will become possible to determine the time-dependent rates of deformation as well as the spatial extent of shear zones and weak zones beneath faults. Improved measurements of these processes in time and space will allow us to better constrain the lateral variability and depth-dependent rheology within the crust.

On a broader scale, Earth Observation data are now reaching the spatial resolution and accuracy to enable us to assess the fundamental mechanics of how continents deform. We have known for decades that the continents do not deform as large rigid plates like the oceans, but the kinematics and dynamics of continental deformation are still unclear. The debate has historically been polarized between two end member views. In one, the continents have been considered to act like a viscous fluid, with internal buoyancy forces playing a key role in controlling the distribution of deformation, and faults only acting as passive markers reflecting the deformation of a deeper, controlling layer. The alternative view has been that the continents can be considered to be a collection of rigid blocks, each behaving in essence like an independent plate. Resolving this issue is important for earthquake hazard assessment–we need to understand the degree to which deformation and earthquakes are focused on the major, ‘block-bounding’ faults, as opposed to being distributed throughout the continents. Long time-series of surface deformation data from Earth Observation satellites will enable us to quantify the degree to which deformation occurs away from the major ‘block-bounding’ faults

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Washington, Jan 3 : NASA has upgraded its website that provides daily views of the Earth from one million miles away. NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera imagery website was recently updated allowing the public to choose natural or enhanced color images of the Earth and even zoom into an area on the globe.

The enhanced color images make land features more visible, said Sasha Marshak, DSCOVR deputy project scientist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. This is achieved by enhancing low intensity pixel values. The effect of atmospheric haze caused by air molecular scattering and attenuation of solar light by ozone has been also removed.

EPIC is a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope aboard NOAAs DSCOVR satellite that takes 10 narrow-band spectral images of the entire sunlit face of Earth from 317 to 780 nanometers.

EPIC takes a new picture approximately every hour from mid-April to mid-October or every two hours for the rest of the year.

EPIC images reveal how the planet would look to human eyes, capturing the ever-changing motion of clouds and weather systems and the fixed features of Earth such as deserts, forests, and the distinct blues of different seas, read the NASA website.

The website was initially launched in 2015 after NOAAs Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR satellite achieved orbit almost one million miles from Earth. DSCOVR is a NOAA Earth observation and space weather satellite launched by Space-X on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle on February 11, 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The website upgrade includes a new magnification feature where users get a zoomed-in look at an area under their cursor. Magnified areas appear in a circular box on screen.

A new Image Information box on the left-hand side of the website allows for downloading the image on screen (by clicking on a down arrow). There is also information that provides the EPIC cameras distance to Earth and to the sun. The Sun-Earth-Vehicle angle is also listed.

A map of the Earth in the Image Information box shows the user which side of the Earth is being shown by the EPIC image.

Below the Image Information section is a new Slideshow controls section. Users can click on the right facing arrow () to move through all of the latest days images. By clicking on the arrow, the viewer will see the images update as the Earth rotates, providing views of the whole planet.

The most recent images are always on the front of the webpage. To find images for a specific date, users can click on the date in the slideshow controls box, and a drop down calendar will allow selection of images from another date (other than the latest date).

A filmstrip of Earth images lines the bottom of the page. Those are the images taken by EPIC for that day that are selected by clicking the arrows or the thumbnails.

The website also contains galleries of images and animations from specific events like moon transits. The basic information about the EPIC camera is in the EPIC section, and information about the imagery is found in the About section. A link to NOAAs site is in the DSCOVR section.

DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. NOAA is operating DSCOVR from its NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, and will process the space weather data at the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado.

From there, the SWPC will distribute the DSCOVR data to users within the United States and around the world. The data will be archived at NOAAs National Geophysical Data Center, also in Boulder.

Credits: NASA/NOAA
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The EU must ensure it continues to implement its space strategy, so that all citizens can one day benefit, writes Maroš Šefcovic. Written by Maroš Šefčovič on 26 January 2017 in Opinion

The EU must ensure it continues to implement its space strategy, so that all citizens can one day benefit, writes Maroš Šefcovic. European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič was a speaker at the annual conference on European space policy

Since it took office, the Juncker Commission has promised to be ‘big on the big things’, to tackle what matters the most. Space has proven to be big, not only figuratively speaking, but also because of its huge impact on our economy, citizens and quality of life.

Many people immediately associate the field of space with exploration of the unknown, a field which our colleagues at the European Space Agency (ESA) are working on, making us proud and excited with every new discovery.

But space also enables a wide range of technologies which are crucial to many aspects of our lives here on Earth. Examples include fighting climate change; smartening our transport; ensuring the safety of critical infrastructure for energy, telecommunications or transport; enabling modern farming; providing disaster response; supporting border and maritime surveillance; monitoring of the ground, sea levels or the atmosphere.

Europe’s space industry is doing well, and it has many reasons to be proud; it has already captured a third of the global market, employing some 230,000 professionals and with an annual value of approximately €50bn.

Yet, our ambition does not end here. Europe’s space industry has tremendous potential, in terms of job creation, enabling more disruptive technologies and allowing more satellite-based services.

But to be perfectly honest, Europe’s space industry also faces new risks and growing competition from new players.

That is why last year the Commission presented the first space strategy for Europe, with a clear shared vision for the years to come. It is the fruit of long discussions with numerous stakeholders and with our partner organisations, such as ESA and member states’ national space agencies.

The EU space strategy is our way to continue Europe’s historic quest ‘far and beyond’; far above the skies and beyond Europe’s current space capacities. It will ensure Europe’s space industry can serve us humans, boost our economy, and protect our environment.

Take geo-localisation for example. Without us realising it, geo-localisation technologies make some of the most mundane (yet critical) activities possible; from drawing cash out of an ATM, zapping between (satellite) TV channels, or using GPS navigation when driving.

It is also a necessary component of more advanced technologies that are omnipresent in our lives (like interactive maps, shared car services, or location-based technologies).

Thanks to our joint EU efforts, the new generation of geo-localisation has just begun; we have just launched the initial services of Galileo, the EU global satellite navigation system (GNSS) that provides radio signals for position, navigation and timing purposes.

Galileo, which became operational a month ago, is very much like the American GPS, but offers a more precise free public service.

Once completed in 2020, it will be 10 times more precise than the very best geo-localisation signals currently available. It will shift us from 10 meters to one meter precision level. Galileo will also provide services to public authorities and commercial companies that will be even more precise.

We also have Copernicus, which is a leading provider of Earth observation data across the globe. Copernicus is already helping to save lives at sea, improve our response to natural disasters such as earthquakes, forest fires or floods, and is allowing farmers to better manage their crops – by collecting data from earth observation satellites as well as ground and sea-bound stations.

2016 was a very exciting year for Europe’s space industry, but we’re not quite done. We must continue implementing the strategy. For example, in order to bring Galileo to its full capacity, we will need more satellite launches.

Therefore, within a few months, four additional satellites will be launched on a single Ariane 5 missile. Over the coming year, there will also be three launches of Copernicus satellites – the world’s largest single Earth observation programme.

The Commission is committed to ensuring the market uptake of both Copernicus and Galileo, through various means. We will launch two networks to help raise awareness about the programmes at regional and local levels.

We will co-organise two Space Weeks this year with the 2017 EU Council presidencies (in June in Malta and in November in Estonia).

We will also continue organising competitions for start-ups that use data from Copernicus and Galileo in new, innovative ways. Building on this support, we will launch the Copernicus accelerator and incubation programme, to help start-ups develop ideas into real applications and products.

All in all, the Commission has dedicated some €1.4bn from the Horizon2020 budget, with a very high return on this investment. The benefit for the economy from one euro invested in space is seven euros back.

As you can see, space is not only the domain of the unknown, thousands of kilometres away from our planet. It is about how we can make our lives here better, safer, healthier, more convenient, efficient and secure. For all those reasons, the Commission will continue supporting Europe’s space technologies and industries, for the benefit of all our citizens.

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We are delighted to announce that NQA ltd, one of the largest and most respected certification bodies in Europe and with a global network, is now partnered with EARSC in the implementation of the EARSC Certification Scheme.

The EARSC EO Industry Certification Scheme looks at the management system elements that are specific to the challenges of our Industry and the scheme documents have been updated to reflect the changing requirements of ISO9001, the de-facto international norm for management systems across the globe.

The development of industry specific standards and specifications has been shown in the past as a key step in the development of a mature industry and EARSC strongly recommend its members to engage with the certification scheme.

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