HR: 1340h
AN: B13D-1523    [Abstracts]
TI: Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Practices Through Remote Sensing Education and Outreach
AU: Driese, K L
EM: kdriese@uwyo.edu
AF: Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, University of Wyoming, Department 4008, Laramie, WY 80271, United States
AU: * Sivanpillai, R
EM: sivan@uwyo.edu
AF: Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, University of Wyoming, Department 4008, Laramie, WY 80271, United States
AB: Ever increasing demand for food and fiber calls for farm management strategies such as effective use of chemicals and efficient water use that will maximize productivity while reducing adverse impacts on the environment. Remotely sensed data collected by satellites are a valuable resource for farmers and ranchers for gaining insights about farm and ranch productivity. While researchers in universities and agencies have made tremendous advances, technology transfer to end-users has lagged, preventing the farmers from taking advantage of this valuable resource. To overcome this barrier, the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium (UMAC), a NASA funded program headed by the University of North Dakota, has been working with end-users to promote the use of remote sensing technology for sustainable agricultural practices. We will highlight the UMAC activities in Wyoming aimed at promoting this technology to sugar-beet farmers in the Big Horn Basin. To assist farmers who might not have a computer at home, we provide them to local county Cooperative Extension Offices pre-loaded with relevant imagery. Our targeted outreach activities have resulted in farmers requesting and using new and old Landsat images to identify growth anomalies and trends which have enabled them to develop management zones within their croplands.
DE: 0402 Agricultural systems
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting