{"id":277,"date":"2025-09-27T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/?p=277"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:05:47","slug":"improving-agricultural-field-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/improving-agricultural-field-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Agricultural Field Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/African-agriculture_Estes-1340x550-1-1024x420.jpg\" alt=\"agriculture fields in Africa\" class=\"wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/African-agriculture_Estes-1340x550-1-1024x420.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/African-agriculture_Estes-1340x550-1-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/African-agriculture_Estes-1340x550-1-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/African-agriculture_Estes-1340x550-1.jpg 1340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/Lyndon_Estes-192x300-1.png\" alt=\"Lydon Estes\" class=\"wp-image-279\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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. Marsh Institute Researcher Lyndon Estes (Geography) received funding from NASA for the project Country-Scale Field Boundary Mapping Using Advanced AI Models Applied to Multi-Source High-Resolution Satellite Imagery which develop techniques that improve the ability to map small fields over large areas, demonstrate these techniques for country-scale field boundary maps in Ghana, Zambia, and Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For full project descriptions, see the Marsh Institute Research Projects web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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