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 that can be used to develop calibration/validation samples for upload to CollectEarthOnline (CEO); (2) creating CEO samples, and preparing sampling tutorials/cheat sheets for sample interpreters; (3) working with the Amazonia Hub to guide CEO sessions with in-region participants; (4) curating collected samples and image datasets; and (5) calculating agreement between interpreters.