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🍁 Next week will be our last posting of the 2025 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS) Weekly NDVI anomalies. BUT our data (Max-NDVI + anomalies) for the growing seasons (end of March to end of October) of 2000 to present are available to download for *FREE*: 🔗 open.canada.ca/data/en/data...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 15 - 21 September, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕 RFI - Canadian Commercial Satellite Imagery Data Products and Services Request for Information (RFI) to gather input from industry to support the Canadian Space Agency in exploring commercially sourced Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery + related info products. canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-op...

ℹ️🧪🛰️ What are Essential Agricultural variables? EAVs for #GEO #GEOGLAM are EO-based “building blocks” that, with other EO or non-EO information provide actionable information on the state, change, and forecast of agricultural land use and productivity, Learn more below ⤵️ 🔗 agvariables.org

Five reasons why all nations need a space strategy Via World Economic Forum www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

🆕🍁 Système Canadien de surveillance des terres agricoles: IVDN maximal hebdomadaire 📆 avril à septembre 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Cartes de l’état des cultures hebdomadaires (IVDN) tout au long de la saison de croissance (fin mars à fin octobre) Télécharger: 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS-FR

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 April to September, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕 Updated Global Land Cover Map Validation Guidelines now available @ CEOS LPV website [via nasa.gov 🧪] New topics include: LC class area estimation to complement map accuracy assessment; Accounting for reference data errors; Novel reference data sources; + more 🔗 lpvs.gsfc.nasa.gov/documents.html

DYK that the 🍁 Canadian Crop Metrics Application allows users to examine in-season weather, satellite-based and risk data related to current, historical, historical + forecasted crop yields? Forecasts are jointly produced by agriculture.canada.ca + Statistics Canada 🧪 🔗 tinyurl.com/YieldForecast

🍁 Want to know what the Agroclimate, Geomatics, Earth Observation and Agri-environmental Resilience (ACGEO-AER) Division does at agriculture.canada.ca? 📻 Here's the 2021 interview for the Back 40 Podcast, where I talk about all things space and agriculture. 🧪🛰️🌎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0wl...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 8 - 14 September, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🍁 Aimeriez-vous en savoir plus à propos de l’effet des tendances météorologiques actuelles sur l’agriculture canadienne? Vous pouvez maintenant consulter le dernier Rapport national sur les risques agroclimatiques ow.ly/lwNV50WX51U Via agriculture.canada.ca

🧪 The latest agriculture.canada.ca National Agroclimate Risk Report for September is now available. See how the weather is affecting Canadian agriculture: ow.ly/E9iW50WIrWv

🍁 DYK the agriculture.gc.ca Ottawa Research and Development Centre is the largest RDC in an urban centre? Our scientists are improving crops, preserving biodiversity, as well as soil and environmental health, and protecting Canadian agriculture through innovative research. 🧪 📽️ ow.ly/TX4g50WOkg9

🍁 The Canadian Drought Monitor is brought to you by agriculture.gc.ca. “At the end of August, 72% of the Atlantic Region was classified as abnormally dry or in moderate to extreme drought, including ** 100% ** of the region's agricultural landscape.” 🧪☀️⛅️🌧️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🍁 DYK that you can generate current and historical maps of agroclimate conditions across Canada's agricultural extents using agriculture.canada.ca online web apps? ➡️ Weather and drought related to agriculture: Current: tinyurl.com/NAISCurrent Historic: tinyurl.com/NAISHistoric 🌧️⛅☀️🌽🚜🧪

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 1 - 7 September, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

Those that know me, know that I’m a sucker for prairie grain elevators, an iconic feature of the Canadian landscape that’s disappeared in many places since the closure of branch lines in the 1990s.

🆕🧪 Hailu [+ agriculture.canada.ca 🍁] et al, 2025: Renewable energy sources for arctic food sufficiency and sustainability. TLDR? How Arctic communities can become resilient, sustainable, and prosperous by promoting local food production while preserving cultural practices. 🔗 tinyurl.com/39wydadd

📢 🧪 I am excited to share that I have been appointed to the Earth System Science Advisory Committee @ the Canadian Space Agency. ➡️ The ESSAC advises on Earth science priorities, guides roadmap planning, and reviews CSA program impact when requested. 🚀 🛰️ 📡 www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/sciences...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 25 - 31 August, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 18 - 24 August, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕 NASA Is Releasing the Final Version of MOPITT's 25-Year Data Record ➡️ The new data products from the MOPITT instrument will offer enhanced data quality for vertical column densities of carbon monoxide in the troposphere. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/feature...

🍁 Canada and Space2.0 - Now launching rockets from our home soil? 🚀 As someone who sits on various federal space-related project teams, working groups, advisory boards and committees, I say that this is exciting news! 🧪 - via cbc.ca www.cbc.ca/news/science...

ℹ️🛰️ Canadian Agricultural Science from Space 🍁🧪 How does Canada's #RADARSAT Constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites support Canadian agricultural monitoring? Check out the video we did in 2019 that explains it all ⤵️ - via agriculture.Canada.ca 🔗 youtu.be/0I0p9GAv3hk?...

🍁 Canadian Drought “While most of the Prairies' spring-planted crops are forecast by Agriculture.Canada.ca to have solid yields in 2025, drought has been ruinous in some hard-hit areas, where some Rural Municipalities have declared agricultural disasters.” -via castanet.net tinyurl.com/57u33r9y

🍁 🧪Agriculture.Canada.ca ➡️ 70% of Cda is experiencing abnormally dry or drought conditions, with Manitoba seeing the worst of it. 💧 “Manitoba received 40% of normal precipitation amounts in July. It’s rare drought is this widespread. Our closest comparison is 2023.” www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 11 - 17 August, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🍁 🧪 Le dernier Rapport national sur les risques agroclimatiques d' agriculture.canada.ca est maintenant disponible. Renseignez-vous sur la manière dont la météo affecte l’agriculture canadienne : ow.ly/wyKW50WIs3t

🍁 🧪 The latest agriculture.canada.ca National Agroclimate Risk Report is now available. See how the weather is affecting Canadian agriculture: ow.ly/E9iW50WIrWv

🇨🇦 “According to the Canadian Drought Monitor, 71 per cent of the country was in drought as of July 31 and most of Canada had below-average precipitation in July.” 🧪💧 ➡️ DYK that agriculture.canada.ca generates the CDM for Canada?

Bare minimum of holding a conversation: SAR, compact-pol, #RADARSAT, speckle filtering, Freeman-Durden and Yamaguchi.

🇨🇦 Western Canadian drought means downsizing for some cattle producers - via cbc.ca ➡️ With some insights from our agriculture.canada.ca National Agroclimate Information Service. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🇨🇦 Canadian agriculture has some of the lowest carbon emissions in the world - via phys.org phys.org/news/2025-08...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 4 - 10 August, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕🍁 #JOB ALERT: ResearchTechnician at agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 🌐 Ottawa, ON. 💲 $65,216 to $81,985 📆 Closing date: 19 Aug 🆔 25-AGR-NCR-EA-STB-61501 🫵 Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad. 🔗 emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

👍 "AAFC plays a critical role in ag research and innovation. In the face of climate change, we need more investment in resilient crops, sustainable practices, and food system innovation - not less. Cutting now would be like slashing a local fire dep't during wildfire season." 🧪 tinyurl.com/2etvyhxj

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 28 July - 3 August, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕️ Update on the recently-launched NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Observation mission. 🛰🧪 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4okZ88C

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 21 - 27 July, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 14 - 20 July, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 7 - 13 July, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

📄🧪 Chipanshi [+ agriculture.canada.ca 🍁] et al, 2019: Prediction of canola + spring wheat yield based on Canadian Met. Centre’s monthly forecasting. TLDR? GEPS provided skillful forecasts of spring wheat + canola from selected Census of Agricultural Regions in AB, MB + SK 🔗 doi.org/10.3354/cr01...

A shocking deterioration in the prairie drought, with 87 percent of agricultural land on the prairies either abnormally dry or in drought. Crops are stressed after a dry June. www.ruralrootscanada.com/drying-out-p...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 30 June - 6 July, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

🆕 Exciting news / Bonnes nouvelles 🍁🧪 Our colleagues at Natural Resources Canada updated the map of Canada's Plant Hardiness Zones. Nos collègues à Ressources Naturelles Canada ont créé une nouvelle carte des zones de rusticité au Canada! 🔗 planthardiness.gc.ca 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"According to a 2024-25 outlook released last week by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, production of all principal field crops in the country is estimated to increase 1.8 per cent year-over-year, and 2.4 per cent above the previous five-year average." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 23 - 29 June, 2025 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

Tell me that you've been doing your science for a long time without telling me you've been doing your science for a long time. 🧪