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High Resolution Crop Analytics
Partnering with Cloud to Street PBC, a flood mapping and intelligence company, this project will use complex machine learning methods and advanced cropland analytics to generate 3-m high-resolution cropland datasets for the Republic of Congo. The work will initially focus on the Likouala, Cuvette, and Plateaux regions.
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Unlocking the Power of NISAR for Mapping the Amazon’s Forest-Agriculture Interface
NISAR is a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Clark University researchers will collaborate with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its other sub-contractors to help guide development of the methods for participatory calibration and validation of the radar-based mapping efforts. Specific tasks will include: (1) developing reproducible Jupyter notebooks…
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Jurisdictional Forest Carbon Support
Nature-based solutions are important for addressing climate change, improving the availability and quality of freshwater, and protecting biodiversity. REDD+ provides a framework that governments can follow for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, as well as increasing forest conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. This project supports…
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Country-Scale Field Boundary Mapping Using Advanced AI Models Applied to Multi-Source High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
Agriculture, one of the largest drivers of terrestrial habitat loss and climate change, is fundamental to human health and well-being, and plays a critical role in socio-economic development. However, tracking agricultural change is difficult because of the uneven availability and varying quality of data, particularly in Africa. To understand how agricultural systems are changing, it…
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The Climate-Food-Urbanization Nexus and the Precursors of Instability in Africa
Climate change is already disrupting economic security and livelihoods, increasing societal instability, and threatening global and national security. This is particularly true in Sub-Saharan Africa where climate change impacts come on top of rapid urbanization, economic growth, and transformation of the continent’s agricultural systems. Large investments in infrastructure and farming are changing rural labor markets…
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Urban-Based Domestic Land Investors and Rural Tree Cover Gain in Eastern Africa
Many developing governments state in their climate change mitigation pledges that they intend to use funding to benefit rural citizens; however, shifts in land markets may result in reduced land ownership by rural residents. Linkages between land markets and gains in planted tree cover need to be studied to mitigate such unintended policy consequences, which…
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Creation of an Open Global Field Boundary Dataset and Benchmark
To understand how agricultural systems are changing, it is necessary to map field boundaries at national to regional scales. This project will contribute to improving the understanding of the best approaches to modeling field delineation in areas that have been identified as low-performance areas in previous work, and will also support increasing global coverage through…
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