Science For a Hungry World: NASA's Partners
Every day, NASA collects information vital to food production all over the world. This information is a valuable asset. NASA's mission: to give it away for free. With the data they collect, teams of NASA researchers and their partners at the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, USAID Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS NET), NOAA, and several major universities including the University of Maryland, work to increase crop yields, ease famine, and keep the global agricultural system functioning.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
- Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC)
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Video editor
- Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
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Interviewees
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
- Molly Brown (NASA/GSFC)
- Inbal Becker Reshef (University of Maryland)
- Gary Eilerts (United States Agency for International Development)
- Curt Reynolds (USDA)
- Brad Doorn (NASA/HQ)
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Narrator
- Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
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Producer
- Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
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Scientist
- Assaf Anyamba (UMBC)
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Videographer
- Jamal Smith (HTSI)
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Writer
- Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, September 30, 2009.
This page was last updated on Monday, July 15, 2024 at 12:11 AM EDT.
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NASA & Agriculture podcast episode 2 NASA & Its Partners
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 4:00AM
Produced by - James Collier (NASA)
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NDVI [Terra: MODIS]
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