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.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC)
- Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
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Writer
- Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Video editor
- Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Scientist
- Assaf Anyamba (USRA)
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Interviewees
- Brad Doorn (NASA/HQ)
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
- Curt Reynolds (USDA)
- Gary Eilerts (United States Agency for International Development)
- Inbal Becker Reshef (University of Maryland)
- Molly Brown (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Narrator
- Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographer
- Jamal Smith (HTSI)
Missions
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This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
NASA & Agriculture podcast episode 2 NASA & Its Partners
(ID: 2009086)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 4:00AM
Produced by - James Collier
Datasets used in this visualization
Terra NDVI (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
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