Thanks to CRCS @ Harvard Milind Tambe Esther Rolf Lily Xu for organizing and all the participants who I learned so much from! This was one of the most fun and productive workshops I’ve participated in 🦾🌍🐘

📢 Researchers at Mila launch a wonderful fundraising AI For Good conference. The lineup of speakers is stellar (incl. Timnit Gebru Michael Bronstein Max Welling Regina Barzilay Hannah Kerner David Rolnick Sara Beery), talks start next week, the final event in MTL in Dec!

The call for applications for the 2023 CV4Ecology Summer Workshop workshop is now open! Join our 3-week crash course in practical CV that aims to give ecologists the skills and knowledge to use CV in their own research. Applications due Dec15 cv4ecology.caltech.edu/call_for_appli…

Last month Department of Geographical Sciences & NASA Harvest hosted SERVIR Global & RCMRD 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 🇸🇴 🇹🇿 🇲🇼 🇰🇲 🇿🇲 🇱🇸 🇸🇿 for a two week training workshop.

The training included sessions on scalable cropland mapping with deep learning and crop yield estimation using remote sensing. Read more here: geog.umd.edu/feature/geog-f…

What does DART stand for? Wrong answers only.

Da Asteroid Redirect Test #DARTMission

I'm looking for PhD students and postdocs to start Fall 2023 at MIT in my brand new lab! If you are interested in working on impact-driven computer vision research for the environment, biodiversity, conservation, and sustainability, please apply and list me in your application!!

NASA Harvest is proud to partner with Bolsa de Cereales for the 2nd year of our student engagement program! Bolsa de Cereales ETyM's #CSR program is helping educate and empower the next generation of farmers and scientists in Argentina.
Learn more: nasaharvest.org/project/agricu…

Today, on the sidelines of #AGRF2022 , Rwanda Space Agency hosted the NASA Harvest team led by Dr. Catherine Nakalembe to discuss ways to collaborate in order to promote sustainable agriculture. #SDG2

Harvest researchers Department of Geographical Sciences hosted a 'Scalable Cropland Mapping Workshop' in coordination with RCMRD 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 🇸🇴 🇹🇿 🇲🇼 🇰🇲 🇿🇲 🇱🇸 🇸🇿. Attendees had excellent discussions about sampling data, deep learning time series models, & what a good map actually means for stakeholders.

👉nasaharvest.github.io/rcmrd2022.html

Innovation at its core! We are innovatively creating, expanding & maintaining an equitably labeled dataset for #ML tools of high social value for smallholder farmers Globally! Interested in participating? Follow Helmets Labeling Crops email [email protected]

📣 We are thrilled to announce the Fall 2022 #WiML Mentorship Program for Ph.D. applicants! This program aims to provide mentorship through the Ph.D. application process for women and non-binary individuals.

Apply to be mentor/mentee by *September 1st*: tinyurl.com/559hj4ps

Great article by Marina Starleaf Riker mentions our new NASA project!

'[Maui United Way] is working with NASA to map out what’s currently being grown on Maui and what else should be planted' and 'build a data dashboard ... to see Maui families’ food and financial needs in real time.'

Great questions & discussion CV4Ecology Summer Workshop this morning! Anyone can visit our NASA Harvest github & tutorials to learn more and use/build on methods & tools we're developing. Forks & PRs welcome 👩🏼‍💻

+ shoutout to Ivan Zvonkov Gabriel Tseng who led some of the projects we shared!

With Hannah Kerner presenting on Supporting #FoodSecurity in Africa using #MachineLearning and #EarthObservations at 2022 CV4Ecology Summer School CV4Ecology Summer Workshop

“Reciprocity is about ensuring that local people engaged in research receive equal or greater benefits, including the development of scientific capacity locally so that communities are not dependent on outside expertise to execute research”

I finally mastered the courage to watch my interview with ⁦⁦Maxime Lenormand⁩ for ⁦⁦⁦Minds Behind Maps⁩. I was pleasantly surprised by most of it but embarrassed by my lengthy response to the question: what is food security? 🫣 youtu.be/lP1qn3nbtYY

Our NASA Equity & Environmental Justice proposal was selected! 🎉

We're using ML and satellite data to develop a Food Security Dashboard with Maui United Way to support small-scale indigenous farmers in Maui County, HI 🏝️

More about funded projects here: tinyurl.com/yf347kdd

We've published an article summarizing the amazing talk that Hannah Kerner, Dr. Catherine Nakalembe & Ivan Zvonkov gave at #CVPR2022 . Check it out to learn how #EOData is revolutionizing agriculture and follow a hands on tutorial of our custom crop mapping module!
nasaharvest.org/news/nasa-harv…

'Colonialism is not only about violent acquisition of land, but also the cultural & psychological impact of centering Euro/Western ways of viewing the world.. Concepts like data colonialism & techno-optimism help us understand the role of data & tech in entrenching inequalities'