This $591,500 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to prototype the first farm-scale agriculture monitoring system using satellite data. The project, led by Mississippi State University, will develop a new web-based portal called "CropVista" that will track crop growth and meteorological conditions to support farmers across 17 U.S. states. The key objectives are to: (1) implement deep learning to detect crop field boundaries from satellite imagery, (2) extract field-scale crop phenology time series data, (3) validate the crop phenology metrics, (4) derive data insights on crop and weather variability, and (5) provide the new web portal with field-level crop and weather information for agricultural management. This research and development project runs from August 2024 to August 2028 and seeks to increase farmers' adoption of satellite-based agricultural monitoring resources to strengthen U.S. agricultural resilience.
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