Xiangjie Chen, a Ph.D.

The International Geo-Innovation Center hosted a Joint Workshop to Develop Community Good Practices for Validating Cropland and Crop Type Maps in Beltsville, MD from Sep 12-14, 2023.

In support of Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)’s Regional Food Balance Sheet (RFBS), the NASA Harvest team at the University of Maryland (UMD) is developing a regional yield sampling framework for evaluating and building a consistent ground dataset for regional yield assessment.

Inbal Becker-Reshef and Chris Justice met with a Chilean delegation from the Natural Resources Information Center (CIREN) to discuss EO applications in agriculture on August 9th, 2023.

A delegation from the University of Adelaide visited UMCP to sign an MOU to collaborate on education and research. The event organized by Ross Lewin, Associate Vice President for International Affairs, provided an opportunity to initiate discussions on areas for potential collaboration.

The International GEO-Innovation Center at the University of Maryland is organizing the 2nd International Quantitative Remote Sensing Summer School from June 28th - July 7th, 2023, in cooperation with the School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering of Wuhan University, the Quantitative Remote Sensing Research Center of Wuhan University, and the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong.

Officials from Paraguay's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and the Directorate of Agricultural Censuses and Statistics recently met with GEOG Professor Matthew Hansen to advance a satellite monitoring project for agricultural crops, with the goal of estimating the production of different crops.

Dr. Inbal Becker-Reshef, GEOG Research Professor and Director of NASA Harvest, gave an invited presentation entitled "Satellite Data for a More Food Secure World" at the United Nations General Assembly Scientific Briefing on Food Security and Sustainability Transformation on April 12 at the U.N. Headquarters in New York.

The International GEO-Innovation Center is excited to welcome Rizos Theodoros Chadoulis, a visiting scholar from Greece. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki working towards his dissertation entitled ‘Signal Processing & Information Analysis for Environmental Monitoring’. He is a Research Assistant at the Center for Research and Technology Hellas and has worked on pre-symptomatic plant disease detection using hyper-spectral images of tobacco plants. He is advised by Dr.

International GEO-Innovation Center faculty participated in the International GEOGLAM Program Executive Committee Meeting, hosted by the GEOGLAM Secretariat at WMO Headquarters, Geneva (March 21-23rd). The meeting provided updates on the current GEOGLAM initiatives and discussion on the future directions and activities for the program.