October 27, 2003 - Dr. James Schepers, visiting scientist from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service in Lincoln, Nebraska presented a seminar entitled "Using Remote Sensing and Related Tools for Agricultural Management". The presentation was focused on research being conducted by his colleagues in the U.S. dealing with the use of remote sensing and GIS tools to manage nitrogen so as to minimize the amount of contamination that it causes to surface and groundwater resources.

Dr. Schepers pointed out that even though the scale of the imagery used at ULRMC on its projects is larger and the clients for the products are different than the farmers in the US, many of the GIS tools and approaches for data analysis discussed were similar for sensing platforms ranging from satellites to aircraft to ground-based instruments. Several new ideas and technologies for using remote sensing in precision agriculture applications were discussed. Among the participants of the seminar were the representatives of Hydrotechnical and Land Reclamation Institute under NASU, Institute of Geography of Ukraine, ERRIU, Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Center of Aerospace Research of the Earth and Ukraine Land Titling Initiative Project. Questions after the seminar illustrated the interest of the visitors and staff.

Dr. James Schepers is the research leader for a group of nine scientists located in the Agronomy and Horticulture Department at the University of Nebraska. For the past two months, he has been participating in the U.S. Embassy Science Fellow Program where he has largely been working with scientists at ULRMC. His expertise deals with development and application of remote sensing tools for agriculture.

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