Summary of Anticipatory Understanding Of Resilient Agriculture to Climate, by David Willmes et al.
Anticipatory Understanding of Resilient Agriculture to Climate
by David Willmes, Nick Krall, James Tanis, Zachary Terner, Fernando Tavares, Chris Miller, Joe Haberlin III, Matt Crichton, Alexander Schlichting
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Applications (stat.AP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework combines remote sensing, deep learning, crop yield modeling, and causal modeling to identify food security hotspots. It adapts methods for wheat farm identification using curated remote sensing data from France, and models climate change impacts on crop yields using WOFOST. The approach also involves identifying key drivers of crop simulation error using longitudinal penalized functional regression. Additionally, the paper presents a system dynamics model of India’s food distribution system, with results demonstrating its potential for food insecurity identification. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study helps identify areas where people might struggle to get enough food due to climate change and other issues. The researchers developed a way to use satellite images, machine learning, and data about crops to find these “hotspots” of food insecurity. They focused on the area that grows wheat in northern India, which supplies many people worldwide. By combining different methods and tools, they can predict how changes in climate might affect crop yields and where food distribution might be a problem. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * Machine learning * Regression
