| MISSISSIPPI STATE, MS,
February 2002 - Mississippi State University (MSU) has announced that its Remote
Sensing Technology Center (RSTC) will now oversee management of the Mississippi
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station’s
(MAFES) Advanced Spatial Technologies for Agriculture (ASTA) program. |
| This management
agreement will enable RSTC and the ASTA of MAFES to draw upon each other’s
considerable resources in the area of remote sensing technology and combine
their efforts to develop image-based applications and products for precision
agriculture. The two organizations will also be able to share funding to finance
joint projects. |
| Agriculture is one of three
mandated focus areas for RSTC, which receives funding from NASA. For the past
three years, RSTC has leveraged the research capabilities of MSU and built
strong relationships with the local agriculture industry to apply imagery and
computational modeling for detection of crop stress relating to weeds, insects
and nutrition. |
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Working in parallel to RSTC at
MSU, MAFES has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
to lay the ground work for incorporating remote sensing as a viable tool for
site-specific crop management through research and associations with
agricultural equipment manufacturers, crop consultants and producers. Projects
focus on soil fertility, pest management, agricultural and biological
engineering and economics.
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