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.
Chris Justice and Meghavi Prashnani from UMD/NASA Harvest represented GEOGLAM at the G20 First Agricultural Deputies Meeting (ADM) in Indore, India, Feb. 13 to 15.
The International GEO-Innovation Center faculty, Dr. Chris Justice and Dr. Krishna Vadrevu, were organizers for the Training Workshop on Fundamentals of Remote Sensing and Applications held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from Feb 8th - 10th, 2023.
The International GEO-Innovation Center faculty, Dr. Chris Justice and Dr. Krishna Vadrevu, convened the International Meeting on Air Pollution in Asia – Inventories, Monitoring and Mitigation in Hanoi, Vietnam from Feb 1st - 3rd, 2023.
An international research program that brings together more than 2,300 land scientists to advance studies of rapid changes to Earth’s environment is moving its home to the University of Maryland on Feb. 1.
The International GEO Center held its inaugural event, the first International Quantitative Remote Sensing Summer School from July 5 – 13th 2022, in collaboration with Wuhan University and the University of Hong Kong. The summer school held talks in English and Chinese by speakers from multiple international institutions and was very well-received with more than 5000 total registrations. – predominantly students and young researchers.
