Announcing NASA Acres as ADT Supporter

Ag Data Transparent (ADT) is proud to announce we are engaged with a preeminent leader in science and technology to benefit agriculture: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). You may not realize that since the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972, NASA and its partners have mapped agriculture worldwide and provided key input into global supply outlooks that bolster the economy and food security. 

It was recently announced that NASA is increasing its decades-long investment in U.S. agriculture through the launch of NASA Acres, a new consortium that will unite physical, social, and economic scientists with leaders in agriculture from public and private sectors. They will have the shared mission of bringing NASA data, science, and tools down-to-Earth for the benefit of the many people working to feed the nation. The consortium approach allows rapid actions in delivering NASA Earth observation data into the hands of U.S. farmers. NASA Acres is commissioned under the agency’s Applied Sciences Program and led by the University of Maryland.

Farmers and allied industry members learned more about NASA’s work through seminars held at Commodity Classic. ADT is the industry’s only not-for-profit focused on providing transparency, simplicity and trust between farmers and their ag tech providers, and we appreciate the team at NASA for supporting our work and collaborating on ideas for advancing the use of agricultural data. Thanks to Alyssa Whitcraft, PhD, for her engagement with ADT.

We are honored to have NASA’s Acres program as a supporting member of ADT - the sky is literally the limit for how we can work together!