Researchers are exploring the use of satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to monitor the times and places when farmers spread manure, an agricultural practice that threatens water quality in Wisconsin.
After a fresh February snow, a satellite about the size of a shoebox, busy snapping photographs as it circuited the planet at 17,000 miles per hour, captured something dark in Wisconsin.
About 56 tons of livestock bedding and manure had been spread atop Mark Zinke’s frozen alfalfa field.
The image, beamed down to the surface, eventually appeared on the computers of Stanford University researchers, who relayed it to the offices of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
A staff member looked it over. He decided it was noteworthy and passed along the information to another employee in a nearby city...
About 56 tons of livestock bedding and manure had been spread atop Mark Zinke’s frozen alfalfa field.
The image, beamed down to the surface, eventually appeared on the computers of Stanford University researchers, who relayed it to the offices of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
A staff member looked it over. He decided it was noteworthy and passed along the information to another employee in a nearby city...
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