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My name is Inbal Becker Reshef,  

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and I use cameras on satellites to see 
what is growing on farms around the world.

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NASA Harvest is NASA's Applied Sciences 
program on food security and agriculture. 

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Our big mission is really to help inform 
decisions on agricultural sustainability,  

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on agricultural market stability, and 
on food security overall. 

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We all eat food. We all need to have food to live and to thrive. 
And so, therefore, it's really important for us  

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to have ways of monitoring the amount of food 
that we're producing to be able to anticipate  

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how much food we're going to produce,
where we're going to produce the food-- 

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or helping to inform farmers themselves who 
are growing food how can they grow their food  

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more effectively, more efficiently. So it really 
matters, I think, from farmers to ministries to  

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everybody we're talking about our food production. 

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I think the biggest inspiration is really to see the impact of this work,

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and see how much more 
potential there still is for better utilization

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of satellite information to inform really 
important decisions

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around sustainability, around food security, around food prices.

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I grew 
up moving almost every two years of my life.

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I lived across three different continents. I spent 
probably a fairly formative part of my life living in Kenya as well.

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And I think one of the things 
that helped me appreciate is how diverse our world is in terms of our environment.

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I always loved  science and math, but also

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had a passion for art, and so I always took classes in art. But, I took, 
also, computer science, and I took

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math classes, and eventually decided not to go the art way and keep that as a hobby.

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They're always going to be challenges, and they come in small and big and every day.

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And I think part of it is just remembering again 
what you're doing and why you're doing it.

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