First International Conference on Global Food Security
Stephanie just came back from the 1st Global Food Security Conference, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands from Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd.
She gave a talk presenting the results of her summer spent at JPL in the Computer Vision for Surface Applications group with Thomas Fuchs, developing a machine learning technique to automate agricultural fields mapping in Africa. Here is the summary of her week in the Netherlands:
The 1st Global Food Security Conference was a great opportunity to meet with researchers from a wide variety of fields, who are all interested in food security issues. The participants ranged from hydrologists and ecologists to economists and nutritionists. For me, it was a great opportunity to see the range of questions being asked in the field of food security and also which questions were deemed the most pressing and research-worthy. I got some good insights into experimental design and data analysis techniques. My talk was definitely on the more technology/engineering side of the spectrum of presentations, but it was well received and I identified a couple possible collaborators.