korypostma

I work for USGS EROS Data Center and this is basically our life. Taking remote sensing data and generating various models to determine all sorts of things. Yes, I agree with much of what people are saying. This means very little to the public except when it matters. Some of the projects I work on determine famine early warning systems across the globe so that governments can make sure they have enough food for their populations. Others depend upon the health of crops. How people are using the land (land cover). How much cheatgrass and other things are there that affects rangelands (it cuts the tongues of cows for instance). We use super computers (Cray HPCs with GPUs) and deep learning (PyTorch/Keras/TF). But, given all of the above, I'm not sure how this would help me to do my job.