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A summary of the history of the development of automated remote sensing for agricultural applicationsThe research conducted in the United States for the past 20 years with the objective of developing automated satellite remote sensing for monitoring the earth's major food crops is reviewed. The highlights of this research include a National Academy of Science study on the applicability of remote sensing monitoring given impetus by the introduction in the mid-1960's of the first airborne multispectral scanner (MSS); design simulations for the first earth resource satellite in 1969; and the use of the airborne MSS in the Corn Blight Watch, the first large application of remote sensing in agriculture, in 1970. Other programs discussed include the CITAR research project in 1972 which established the feasibility of automating digital classification to process high volumes of Landsat MSS data; the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment (LACIE) in 1974-78, which demonstrated automated processing of Landsat MSS data in estimating wheat crop production on a global basis; and AgRISTARS, a program designed to address the technical issues defined by LACIE.
Document ID
19850035403
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Macdonald, R. B.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1983
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Meeting Information
Meeting: 1983 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS ''83)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Start Date: August 31, 1983
End Date: September 2, 1983
Accession Number
85A17554
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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