2020-04-17
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and UC Merced’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Group presented an online talk for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day as part of the Frontiers in Technology Seminar Series.
Joel Kimmelshue, Ph.D., a founding partner and the principal soil and agriculture scientist at Land IQ in Sacramento, will offer a talk entitled “Agricultural Land Classification and Crop Water Use: The Importance of Ground Truthing for Calibration and Validation.”
Land IQ has developed a statewide land-use mapping program for the California Department of Water Resources that implements comprehensive ground-truthing — observations of ground conditions in situ — for calibrating and validating models based on remotely sensed data for the ultimate classification of all agricultural fields in California. This talk introduces the importance of comprehensive ground truthing to ensure accuracy for both the remotely sensed agricultural land use mapping and crop-consumed water estimates.
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