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Judging a field by its cover

There’s a lot of hope out there riding on the idea of climate-smart agriculture — that by tweaking how we grow food, we can store more…

5 min readNov 8, 2022

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Judging a field by its cover

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StanfordFoodSecurity

Combining experiments and satellite observations to measure yield benefits from crop rotation

Population growth and the unprecedented rate of climate change create a need for rapid agricultural adaptation. Therefore, it is important…

6 min readJun 2, 2022

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Combining experiments and satellite observations to measure yield benefits from crop rotation

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StanfordFoodSecurity

The hard NOx life for crops

The recent jump in grain prices is another reminder of the importance of having high cropland productivity. Although the Ukraine war has…

6 min readJun 2, 2022

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The hard NOx life for crops

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StanfordFoodSecurity

Space lasers to the rescue: using lidar to map crop types

Chances are if you’ve heard about space lasers in the past year, it’s related to conspiracy theories about what was causing so many fires…

5 min readNov 8, 2021

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Space lasers to the rescue: using lidar to map crop types

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A new method to improve crop mapping: how to give two shifts

Why map crop types?

5 min readJun 21, 2021

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A new method to improve crop mapping: how to give two shifts

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StanfordFoodSecurity

Heat and Learning

The impacts of climate change are all around us. Wildfire seasons are increasingly severe, hurricane seasons are longer, and coastal…

6 min readMay 28, 2021

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Heat and Learning

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StanfordFoodSecurity

Wildfire Management is Air Quality Management

It’s now become a regular topic in our newsfeeds: wildfires are increasing in number, size, and damage every year. Some of the…

7 min readMar 3, 2021

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Wildfire Management is Air Quality Management

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StanfordFoodSecurity

Digging deep from above: satellite-guided investigation of soil fertility and crop yield response

Low quality soils are the source of multiple problems in global smallholder agriculture. A lack of plant essential nutrients — such as…

5 min readFeb 23, 2021

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Digging deep from above: satellite-guided investigation of soil fertility and crop yield response

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StanfordFoodSecurity

Satellite yield estimation: how good is it, and what can we learn?

With today’s computing power and free satellite imagery, generating a crop yield map from satellite data is relatively easy. Knowing if…

8 min readJan 5, 2021

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Satellite yield estimation: how good is it, and what can we learn?

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High-Resolution Soybean Yield Mapping

In the United States, farmers planted over 90 million acres of soybean in 2017; in 2018, soybean planted acreage outpaced corn for the…

7 min readNov 25, 2020

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High-Resolution Soybean Yield Mapping

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StanfordFoodSecurity

StanfordFoodSecurity

Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) leads cutting-edge research on global issues of food, hunger, poverty and the environment.

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