ABSTRACf The National Agricultural Statistics Service used LANDSAT multispectral scanner (MSS) data to aid regression estimates of acreage for major crops during 1980-1987. Future LANDSAT satellites will not have the MSS scanner, but will have a thematic mapper (TM) scanner. TM data is more expensive to purchase and process for large areas because of its higher spatial and spectral resolution. ...

Publicly owned companies, their officers and major investors are required to file regular disclosures with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To improve accessibility to these public documents, the SEC began developed the EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) electronic disclosure system. This system provides ready, free access to all electronic filings made since...

This paper presents a method for crop yield forecast based on remote sensing and official data. The method uses a statistical approach to extract different pixels of smoothed NDVI data derived from MODIS sensor to be used as proxies for sugarcane yield estimation at a municipal scale. From 368 municipalities with yield's historical data from 2003 to 2012, three groups were created based on acre...

This project takes an in-depth look at the environmental variables of freshwater lakes and how these variables affect the land value of lakeshore property. A GIS-based spatial and statistical analysis applied to lakeshore data from Crow Wing and Cass county Minnesota, provided the information necessary to establish general correlations applicable to Midwestern lakeshore property. The sample set...

The 1996 FAIR Act was a novel departure in farm policy, with fixed payments, absence of acreage set-asides, and avoidance of CCC commodity stockpiles that provide a possible means of transition to a market-based agriculture. Some now argue that the FAIR Act has failed, on the grounds that the federal government has spent too much, while at the same time this spending is not effectively targeted...