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RESAC/TiSDat: Regional Earth Science Applications Center / Timely Satellite Data for Agricultural Management (RESAC/TiSDat)

1999-2003

The NASA-funded Upper Midwest RESAC was a consortium of three universities, industry and state government entities. Because environmentally sound agriculture increasingly is information-driven, the program partners developed management decision aids that derived much of their power from satellite data (geostationary and polar) made available quickly after collection. By assisting agricultural managers in daily decision-making, pesticide usage could be reduced, energy saved and potential water quality impacts of crop production minimized.

TiSDat was part of a NASA-sponsored program to facilitate access to satellite data for all potential users. TiSDat was a suite of decision support information products for agriculture that merged satellite and meteorological data and forecast models of the atmosphere and land surface. Much of the technology was transferable to other crops and applications.

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Publications

  • Binlish, Rajat; Kustas, William P.; French, Andrew N.; Diak, George R.; and Mecikalski, John R. Influence of near-surface soil moisture on regional scale heat fluxes: Model results using microwave remote sensing data from SGP97. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing v.39no.8, 2001, pp1719-1728. Reprint #3062.

  • Diak, George R.; Anderson, Martha C.; Bland, William L.; Norman, John M.; Mecikalski, John M.; and Aune, Robert M. Agricultural management decision aids driven by real-time satellite data. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society v.79, no.7, 1998, pp1345-1355. Reprint #2459.

  • Diak, George R.; Bland, William L.; Mecikalski, John R.; and Anderson, Martha C. Satellite-based estimates of longwave radiation for agricultural applications. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology v.103, no.4, 2000, pp349-355. Reprint #2842.

  • Diak, George R.; Mecikalski, John R.; Anderson, Martha C.; Norman, John M.; Kustas, William P.; Torn, Ryan D.; and DeWolf, Rebecca L. Estimating land surface energy budgets from space – Review and current efforts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and USDA-ARS. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society v.85, no.1, 2004, pp65-78. Reprint # 3687.

  • Mecikalski, John R.; Diak, George R.; Anderson, Martha C.; and Norman, John M. Estimating fluxes on continental scales using remotely sensed data in an atmospheric-land exchange model. Journal of Applied Meteorology v.38, no.9, 1999, pp1352-1369. Reprint # 2743.

  • Molling, Christine C.; Strikwerda, John C.; Norman, John M.; Rodgers, Charles A.; Wayne, Rick; Morgan, Cristine L. S.; Diak, George R.; and Mecikalski, John R. Distributed runoff formulation designed for a precision agricultural landscape modeling system. Journal of the American Water Resources Association v.41, no.6, 2005, pp1289-1313. Reprint # 4910.

  • Molling, Christine; Wayne, Frederick; Norman, John; Mecikalski, John; and Stelford, Mark. A computer demonstration of a precision agricultural landscape modeling (PALM) system. Proceedings of the 2001 Wisconsin Fertilizer, Aglime and Pest Management Conference, 16-18 January 2001, Madison, WI, pp240-243. Reprint #3507.

  • Morgan, Christine; Molling, Christine; Norman, John; and Lowery, Birl. Evaluating soil property information on a landscape. Proceedings of the 2002 Wisconsin Fertilizer, Aglime and Pest Management Conference, 15-17 January 2002, Madison, WI, pp64-69. Reprint # 3505.

  • Morgan, C.L.S.; Norman, J.M.; Molling, C.C.; McSweeney, K., and Lowery, B. Evaluating soil data from several sources using a landscape model. In Scaling Methods in Soil Physics, CRC Press, 2003. Edited by R. Pachepsky, et al, pp243-260. Reprint # 5304.

  • Norman, J. M.; Anderson, M. C.; Kustas, W. P.; French, A. N.; Mecikalski, J.; Torn, R.; Diak, G. R.; Schmugge, T. J.; and Tanner, B. C. W. Remote sensing of surface energy fluxes at 10(1)-m pixel resolutions. Water Resources Research v.38, no.8, 2003, doi:10.1029/2002WR001775, 2003. Reprint #4989.

  • Rodgers, Charles; Mecikalski, John; Molling, Christine; Norman, John; Kucharik, Christopher; and Morgan, Cristine. Spatially distributed hydrologic-biophysical modeling: Applications in precision agriculture. Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 24th, Davis, CA, 14-18 August 2000 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2000, pp86-87. Reprint # 3572.

  • Stelford, Merk; Faivre, Steve; Norman, John; Molling, Christine; and Diak, George. Becoming a low-cost producer of the future: opportunities for using equipment logistics. Proceedings of the 2001 wisconsin Fertilizer, Aglime and Pest Management Conference, 16-18 January 2001, Madison, WI, pp206-212. Reprint #3506.

Images

  • TISDAT: Iimely Satellite Data for Agricultural Management

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

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