{"id":1079,"date":"2015-11-04T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T22:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2015-12-06T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:28:55","slug":"drought-in-california-fields-are-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/drought-in-california-fields-are-shrinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought In California &#8211; Fields Are Shrinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drought In California &#8211; Fields Are Shrinking<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s farmlands are on a radical slimming diet.<\/p>\n<p>We can now calculate the acceleration of the problems caused by drought and the California restrictions on the consumption of water.<\/p>\n<p>By analyzing images captured by satellites, NASA and the USDA estimate that over the past four years, more than a million acres of farmland have been gradually abandoned in California. In 2015, the total abandoned area was double what had been recorded in 2011. This reduction of cropland represents 15% of the 7 million acres of irrigated farmland in the Central Valley of California &#8211; the equivalent of half the total area of \u200b\u200bLebanon.<\/p>\n<p>These statistics have been produced as part of a project to monitor, on a continuous basis, changes caused by drought. The tool used in the project compiles thousands of Earth observation imagery from several Landsat satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite data were processed and analyzed by scientists at the Ames Research Center and the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The monthly results were overlaid to create time sequences.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, it is safe to assume that, with flight autonomy and sensors continuously improving, UAVs will become a key player in the fight against the effects of drought in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/1OmuuYv\" target=\"_blank\">Link to NASA&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-980\" src=\"http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/21.jpg\" alt=\"Perte des neiges\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/21.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/21-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/21-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-981\" src=\"http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3.png\" alt=\"Terres en friche\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3.png 1000w, http:\/\/canopee.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drought In California &#8211; Fields Are Shrinking California&#8217;s farmlands are on a radical slimming diet&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canopee.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}