Dr. Maksatbek Anarbaev
Centre for Development Studies, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Free University, Berlin, DE
Pastoralists and Predators in Alai: Political Ecology of Wildlife Management in Kyrgyzstan

Prof. Janay Sagin
School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Nursultan, KZ
Canada-Germany-US-Central Asia Academy-Industry Cooperation in Sustainable Irrigation

Friday 8 April 2022: 0900-1000 (EDT); 1500-1600 (Berlin); 1900-2000 (Nursultan)

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Book highlights

-An in-depth focus on remote sensing in agriculture in South/Southeast Asian countries.

-Provides the latest algorithms, tools, and techniques in remote sensing specific to agriculture.

-Offers methodologies to aid the development of operating tools for crop mapping and monitoring.

The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Science Workshop will be an in-person 2.5-day event organized by NASA and UNAVCO to bring together the science community in Solid Earth, Ecosystems, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere disciplines, and other areas of Earth science that will benefit from the NISAR mission. 

The workshop will: 

Dr. Luca Morreale looked at the speed of tree growth and other factors in more than 48,000 forest plots in the northeastern United States tracked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Trees within 30 meters of an edge grew nearly twice as fast, and more sunlight fueled a higher tree density. Faster-growing trees packed tightly together mean that more carbon is stored in tree roots, trunks, and leaves.

Dr. Oliver Wing and his team created projected flood loss maps under the modest Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 climate change scenario outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which predicts climate patterns if emissions peak in 2040 and then decline. They analyzed those data in concert with projected population and demographic shifts from the U.S.