Homework 2: Satellite Remote Sensing for Agricultural Applications

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Go to GEOGLAM’s Crop Monitor website (https://cropmonitor.org/). Explore the website and both the “Crop Monitor for AMIS” and “Crop Monitor for Early Warning.” Write about one thing you learned. *

SMAP soil moisture observations are needed every 3 days or less to optimally determine the variability in soil moisture. *

5 points

True

False

What is the resolution of the SMAP Enhanced Active-Passive Product using Sentinel-1 (L2_SM_SP)? *

5 points

9 km

12 km

36 km

3 km

Which of the following are important variables for monitoring crops? *

5 points

Crop Calendar

Crop Mask

Vegetation Indices

All of the above

Explain Growing Degree Days (GDD) and how it is useful to our understanding of crop monitoring. *

Microwaves are highly sensitive to the water in soil due to change in the soil microwave dielectric properties. *

5 points

True

False

What is the software framework used for LDAS? *

5 points

DAS

LIS

NASS

ASSIMILATION

Go to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network website (FEWS NET - https://fews.net/). Which of the following is not a country they provide early warning for on acute food insecurity? *

5 points

Honduras

Afghanistan

South Sudan

Venezuela

LDAS integrates surface-based and remote sensing observations, providing uniformly gridded, frequent information of water and energy components. *

5 points

True

False

A crop calendar is important for which of the following reasons? *

5 points

It is a good indicator of drought.

It is used as an indicator of plant health.

It is an essential component in determining crop yield.

It provides crop-specific phenological timings.

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