Tasks:
Needs Assessments -
Determine
the needs associated with successful implementation of remote
sensing in the three focus areas. Surveys, listening sessions,
and focus groups will be conducted with end-users (including
agricultural and forestry producers, professional consultants,
the various components of the transportation industry, and local,
state, and federal elected and appointed officials), and
separately with various components of the remote sensing industry.
Formal
Education - Educational materials will be
developed and disseminated into new courses and units within
existing courses at the secondary, community/junior college,
undergraduate, and graduate educational levels. Assessments will
be developed as each unit/course is implemented to research the
most viable mechanisms of delivery. Thus, Mississippi will be
used as a test-bed for widespread implementation of remote sensing
training at all of these levels.
Outreach Activities
- Extension programming and continuing education activities
will be conducted to prepare the existing workforce for
application of remote sensing in the focus areas. Activities
will include seminars, workshops, and on-farm demonstrations.
- Public sector, including local governments, will be
engaged in extensive planning and education efforts to identify
applications of remote sensing that will improve governmental
planning and performance.
- Conduct workshops to educate the public sector, including
state officials and others on the use of remote sensing and other
space-based technology.
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Deliverables (divided into the three Task
categories):
Needs Assessments
- Report of survey of agricultural end-users.
- Report of survey of forestry end-users.
- Report of survey of transportation end-users.
- Report of survey of wage and salary skills of the remote
sensing industry.
- A report from educational sessions and focus group
discussions on ownership rights and access to geospatial
data.
Formal Education
- Educational materials disseminated into new courses and
units within existing courses at the secondary, community/junior
college, undergraduate, and graduate educational levels.
Outreach
- A commercial outreach training program
- Measurement of food and fiber producers' adoption and
utilization of geospatial technologies and of related precision
farming resource management strategies.
- A summative program evaluation by soliciting and utilizing
feedback from participants about the program's effectiveness and
economic benefits.
- Non-formal educational curricula and training through
workshops and seminars for producers, consultants, and vendors on
the application of geospatial technologies to food and fiber
production, focusing on the availability, economic value, and
environmental impacts of validated technologies.
- An educational needs assessment through listening sessions
and other strategies to determine existing knowledge and attitudes
about geospatial technology, current usage of this technology, and
expectations about future adoption. Need more definition.
- Using traditional and innovative communication technologies
and channels, dissemination of the latest available information
about geospatial technologies to agricultural and producers,
forestland managers, consultants, Extension educators, public
officials, and other stakeholders.
- Implementation of a plan to educate public decision makers
and direct stakeholders, to identify and understand the public
policy issues related to application of geospatial technology and
to develop and utilize public policy skills in addressing and
resolving those issues.
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