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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Registration is open for an a new open, online webinar series on <span style=""><b>Satellite Remote Sensing for Agricultural Applications</b></span>. This 4-part series will focus on data access and case-studies
demonstrating how remote sensing data can be used for decision-making among the agriculture and food security communities. Please see the training details and registration information below.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Since the launch of NASA’s first Landsat mission in 1972, satellite imagery has been used for global agricultural monitoring, providing one of the longest operational applications for the Landsat program. Although
satellite observations of land began with agricultural monitoring, only in recent years has agricultural remote sensing seen reinvigoration among space agencies, national ministries of agriculture, and global initiatives. To monitor agricultural systems, NASA
utilizes satellite observations to assess a wide variety of geophysical and biophysical parameters, including: precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and vegetation health.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">The Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) webinars on land and water resources covered remote sensing-derived parameters relevant to agriculture within a broader scope. This 4-part introductory webinar will
focus on data products, data access, and case-studies demonstrating how remote sensing data can be used for decision-making among the agriculture and food security communities.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">This training will address how to use remote sensing data for agriculture monitoring, specifically drought and crop monitoring. The webinar will also provide end-users the ability to evaluate which regions of the
world agricultural productivity is above or below long-term trends. This informs decisions pertaining to market stability and humanitarian relief.</font></p>
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<b><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals:</font></b></p>
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<li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg2"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal">Goal
2:</span></a></span> End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/?Text=&Goal=2&Target=2.4"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal">Target
2.4:</span></a></span> By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme
weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality</font></li></ul>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Course Dates:</b> April 14, 21, 28, and May 5, 2020</font></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Times:</b> 10:00-11:30 & 16:00-17:30 EDT (UTC-4); There will be identical sessions at two different times of the day</font></p>
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<b><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Learning Objectives: </font></b></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:</font></p>
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<li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"></span>Identify which satellites and sensors can be used for agricultural applications</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"></span>Understand the limitations of remote sensing and modeled data for agriculture and food
security</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"></span>Acquire specific remote sensing data products that are appropriate for their work</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"></span>Apply remote sensing techniques to crop monitoring, drought, and humanitarian relief</font></li></ul>
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<b><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Course Format: </font></b></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Four online, 1.5-hour parts.</font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Please see the training details and registration information at
</b><a href="https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/water/webinars/remote-sensing-for-agriculture-20"><b>https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/water/webinars/remote-sensing-for-agriculture-20</b></a></font></p>
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