Remote Sensing for Farmers and Flood Watching

About this technology

Overview

NVision, Inc., harnessed NASA's geospatial satellite information to provide geospatial solutions for a variety of industries. It has made three rather disparate spinoffs: a crop prescription service for farmers; a disaster management tool for local, state, and Federal governments; and an educational service for young farmers. The crop service allows farmers to generate prescriptions and crop scouting maps, using Web-based technologies and NASA's precision agriculture algorithms and research. For the disaster management tool, NASA, NVision, and a team of local governments, created the Real-time Emergency Action Coordination Tool (REACT). REACT is a simple, Web-based tool that city officials can access when they need to make decisions in emergency and disaster situations. It provides a comprehensive network of maps and reports, combined with real-time sensors, shelter and hospital information, and dynamically generated environmental model output during a crisis to help officials make timely, informed decisions under pressure. The service for young farmers is an educational, geospatial-based, precision agriculture software distributed to Future Farmers of America students nationwide to familiarize the next generation of farmers with geospatial technology and to encourage them to take full advantage of NASA science.