NASA Acres Research, Development, and Extension Partners took the global stage at the 2025 Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, Austria, presenting groundbreaking work on Earth observation applications for both U.S. and international agriculture. Hosted by the European Space Agency, this triennial event brings together scientists, policymakers, and technology leaders from around the world to explore the future of satellite data and its role in addressing global challenges.

NASA Acres scientists, David Roy and Lin Yan of Michigan State University, are taking a computer-vision approach to extract crop field objects from Landsat satellite time series wall-to-wall in the Conterminous United States (CONUS) annually for 2008-2026, with core processing undertaken in Amazon Web Services (AWS) where the USGS Collection 2 Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) are stored, and the results will be validated using Google-Earth and NASA high spatial-resolution imagery. In areas where fields are too small to be extracted reliably from Landsat 30m images, the commercial high-resolution images will be considered.