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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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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 …