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for generations we dreamed about a place

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to live and work in space

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a place where life up there would

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benefit life down here

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today that dream has come true

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research on the international space

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station improves lives all over the

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world

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the station's benefits for humanity grow

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every day

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and they can be told by the lives that

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our farm is called awg farms started

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back in 1975.

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it's a family-run farm i have two

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brothers now and my son-in-law is in the

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operation this is a third generation

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main crop is sugar beets

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then we have spring wheat

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sunflowers

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soy beans corn

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and once well we'll raise some edible

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remote sensing is a way to look at our

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crops during the growing season to be

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able to determine

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if we need to do any monitoring of

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the organization over in grand forks

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north dakota called umac

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that organization put a camera on the

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well the biggest problem with satellite

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imagery

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is the fact that landsat we get every 16

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days

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and on that 16th day in this region if

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we have cloud cover that image is

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virtually useless for us so then we have

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to wait another 16 days

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biggest thing with isaac we would get

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much more often

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when we want to get that particular

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image isaac gave it to us when we wanted

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it versus a a more a more rotational

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type satellite

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they were able to get imagery to us with

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a couple bands of light

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necessary ones we needed which is near

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infrared and red a near-infrared band is

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something to do with biomass how the

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crop is growing more biomass using more

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yield potential

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we're able to obtain a piece of software

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that's written by a local programmer in

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this region that allows us to take these

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images and manipulate them into zones

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within the field itself

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and by doing that we can see different

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patterns in the field and within those

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patterns we can manage the field

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differently based off of biomass or

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reflectance of the field itself

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it's just a tool that we can use as a

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reference to be able to make better

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decisions and by doing that our farm is