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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
TH1.R6: Remote Sensing for Food Security
Thursday, 13 August, 08:30 - 09:45
Location: Cardozo
Session Type: Oral
Session Chair: Rizwan Ahmed Ansari, North Carolina Central University
Track: Data and Society
Thu, 13 Aug, 08:30 - 08:45

TH1.R6.1: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Food Deserts using Remote Sensing and GIS Data in North Carolina
Rizwan Ahmed Ansari, Timothy Mulrooney, North Carolina Central University
Thu, 13 Aug, 08:45 - 09:00

TH1.R6.2: AGE: AFRICAN GREENHOUSE EXTRACTION FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY USING VISION FOUNDATION MODEL
Jingyi Ding, Ailong Ma, Yanfei Zhong, Wuhan University; Faith Njoki Karanja, University of Nairobi; Mark Boitt, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology; Petri Pellikka, University of Helsinki; Yigang Li, United Nations
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:00 - 09:15

TH1.R6.3: LOCAL LLMS FOR AUTOMATING REMOTE SENSING CROP LABEL GENERATION
Ayshah Chan, Marco Körner, Technical University of Munich
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:15 - 09:30

TH1.R6.4: MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE-DERIVEN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR MAPPING TILLAGE INTENSITY AND CROP RESIDUE BURNING PRACTICES
Chandra Vikash Kumar, National Institute of Technology Karnataka; Preethi Konkathi, Nathan Torbick, Mitti Labs Limited; Michele Reba, USDA-ARS; Shwetha H R, National Institue of Technology Karnataka; Venkatesh Kolluru, NASA MSFC Office of Data Science and Informatics (OSDI); Joanne V Hall, University of Maryland
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:30 - 09:45

TH1.R6.5: COASTAL ZONE DIGITAL TWIN: FUSION OF WATER QUALITY OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS TO INFORM AQUACULTURE DECISIONS
Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Sujay Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Shahryar Ahmad, Science Application International Corp.; Hook Hua, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Tom Allen, Old Dominion University; Paul Grogan, Arizona State University; Tom Grubb, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center