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  1. AMA Innovation Lab Launches Project Using High-resolution Satellite Data to Improve Accuracy and Quality of an Innovative Risk Management Tool

    AMA Innovation Lab Launches Project Using High-resolution Satellite Data to Improve Accuracy and Quality of an … new AMA Innovation Lab project using ultra-high resolution satellite data. The project will use these measurements … buy improved seeds is most likely to be scarce. Satellite measurements taken at 250-meter resolution can …

    Alex Russell - 12/04/2020

  2. Paper: Fail-safe Index Insurance Without the Cost: a Satellite Based Conditional Audit Approach

    Paper: Fail-safe Index Insurance Without the Cost: a Satellite Based Conditional Audit Approach … an alternative index insurance contract, which combines a satellite based index with the potential for a second-stage audit. The satellite index is created using a model which takes …

  3. Success Story: Using Second-generation Satellite Measures to Improve Design of Risk Management Tools for Smallholder Farmers

    Success Story: Using Second-generation Satellite Measures to Improve Design of Risk Management … to collect. BASIS researchers and partners used satellite information at high resolution, coupled with … developed a potential solution to these problems by using satellite information at high resolution, coupled with …

  4. Presentation: Using Satellite Information to Predict Local Yields

    Presentation: Using Satellite Information to Predict Local Yields … indicated the approximate location of their plot(s) on a satellite map The study included a survey of all the areas …

  5. Memo: Using Satellite Imagery as the Basis for Index Insurance Contracts in West Africa

    Memo: Using Satellite Imagery as the Basis for Index Insurance Contracts in West Africa In a memo of last June, we discussed the logic of matching technological innovations with  financial innovations that insulate farmers from the…

  6. Insurance for Vulnerable Families Cuts Rural Poverty and the Cost of Aid by Half

    … is a type of index insurance that bases its payouts on satellite measurements of vegetation on the ground. …

    Alex Russell - 04/16/2021

  7. How NDVI Transformed Insurance as a Tool to Build Resilience

    … In 1972 NASA launched Landsat 1, the first satellite dedicated to monitoring the Earth’s surface. By … Today, researchers are using the newest generations of satellite and Earth observation technologies to improve this … US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite taken every ten days dating back to 1981. …

    Alex Russell - 12/04/2020

  8. Leveraging Machine Learning to Improve Livestock Insurance for Pastoralist Families

    … from space might have seemed impossible. Since the 1970s, satellite technology has allowed us to measure healthy … of pastoralist families around the world.  “We use satellite images for our index insurance already and deep … machine learning to recognize forage quality from 100,000 satellite photographs--not NDVI measurements--of Northern …

    Andrea Esquetini - 07/25/2023

  9. 2012 I4 Technical Meeting in Rome

    … Gommes, Food and Agriculture Organization Adapting satellite contracts for spatial scale-up in Northern Kenya … Michael Carter, University of California, Davis Satellite-based crop yield prediction in Tanzania and Mali …

  10. Irrigation, Property Rights and Land Markets for Resilient Growth in Rwanda and Senegal

    … regional development. The research team will combine satellite images from across the Senegal River Valley with … between rice and fruits/vegetable cultivation. Satellite images show that irrigated land is often at first … data on intensity of land use and eventual abandonment from satellite imagery. Irrigation development can create …