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Science For a Hungry World: NASA's Partners

Every day, NASA collects information vital to food production all over the world. This information is a valuable asset. NASA's mission: to give it away for free. With the data they collect, teams of NASA researchers and their partners at the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, USAID Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS NET), NOAA, and several major universities including the University of Maryland, work to increase crop yields, ease famine, and keep the global agricultural system functioning.For complete transcript, click here.    Every day, NASA collects information vital to food production all over the world. This information is a valuable asset. NASA's mission: to give it away for free. With the data they collect, teams of NASA researchers and their partners at the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, USAID Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS NET), NOAA, and several major universities including the University of Maryland, work to increase crop yields, ease famine, and keep the global agricultural system functioning.

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Duration: 4.8 minutes
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Animation Number:10491
Completed:2009-09-30
Animators:Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
 Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC)
Video Editor:Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
Interviewees:Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
 Molly Brown (NASA/GSFC)
 Inbal Becker Reshef (University of Maryland)
 Gary Eilerts (United States Agency for International Development)
 Curt Reynolds (USDA)
 Brad Doorn (NASA/HQ)
Narrator:Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
Producer:Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
Scientist:Asaph Anyamba (NASA/GSFC)
Videographer:Jamal Smith (HTSI)
Writer:Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
Platform/Sensor/Data Set:Terra/MODIS/NDVI
Series:Narrated Movies
 NASA and Agriculture - Edited Features
Goddard TV Tape:G2009-086 -- Science For a Hungry World: NASA's Partners
Keywords:
DLESE >> Agricultural science
SVS >> Earth Science
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> NDVI
SVS >> Remote Sensing
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Agriculture
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Agriculture >> Food Science
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Agriculture >> Agricultural Plant Science >> Crop/Plant Yields
 
 
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