At the 2021 Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference, Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, a GEOG alumna, associate research professor and the deputy director of NASA Harvest, spoke to the importance of Earth observation technology in service of the public good, improved agricultural monitoring for food security applications, and farming resilience.

Dr. Whitcraft focuses on agriculture and the monitoring and mapping of agricultural characteristics and processes worldwide. She has spent most of her career leading efforts to define Earth observations data requirements for global agricultural monitoring, and working with space agencies through CEOS in order to increase acquisition of, availability and continuity of, and access to consistently pre-processed satellite data sets for agriculture. In this vein, she is the agriculture point of contact for the CEOS Ad Hoc Team on GEOGLAM and leads GEOGLAM's Earth observation data coordination activity. 

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