Project Number: 5445-21310-001-04
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Jul 01, 2005
End Date: Jun 30, 2010

Objective:
(1) Evaluate methodologies to quantify the environmental and economic benefits derived from implementing existing best management practices or new precision agriculture best management practices for minimizing offsite impacts and for increasing yields, including through a retrospective analysis of the added contribution of geospatial data, specifically remotely sensed data, to fields with documented historical cropping practices. (2) Evaluate the added contribution of multispectral and hyperspectral data from ground, airborne, and satellite sensors to grassland restoration studies. Use geospatial technologies to evalute the effectiveness of the various restoration treatments designed to change species composition and renew grassland productivity.

Approach:
Results from research will be integrated with other available information and data to develop the capacity for farmers, ranchers, and other land managers to use remote sensing technology to develop site-specific best-management practices.