213: High Resolution Data from Space Helps Farmers Plan for Climate Change

Ecosystem Science combines biology, chemistry, and physics to model and predict responses like wine grape yield forecasting, water management, and disease vector mapping. Joshua Fisher, Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Policy at Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University and science lead at Hydrosat explains how high-resolution data from space helps farmers plan for climate change. His research uses satellites to help growers understand how change their practices to succeed in their current location and predict future winegrowing regions around the world.

Resources:

• 199: NASA Satellites Detect Grapevine Diseases from Space
• 191: CropManage: Improving the Precision of Water and Fertilizer Inputs
• Hydrosat
• Joshua Fisher
• Joshua Fisher on LinkedIn
• Joshua Fisher on Twitter
• Martha Anderson, Research Physical Scientist, USDA-ARS
• NASA Acres - applying satellite data solutions to the most pressing challenges facing U.S. agriculture
• NASA Earth Observatory
• NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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Transcript

Craig Macmillan  0:00 

And our guest today is Dr. Joshua Fisher. He is Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Chapman University, and also science lead with Hydrosat. And today, we're gonna be talking about ecosystem research that he's been doing in some modeling ideas. Thanks for being here, Joshua.

 

Joshua Fisher  0:16 

Thanks for having me.