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USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service is a United States Department of Agriculture agency focused on agricultural export promotion, food aid, trade program administration, and global agricultural production assessment.^[1] Its International Production Assessment Division produces global crop condition and production estimates for grains, oilseeds, and cotton, using Earth observation as one input rather than operating satellites itself.^[1] For EO users, FAS is most relevant as an institutional consumer and distributor of crop-monitoring analysis: its Crop Explorer and geospatial data services expose satellite-derived indicators for global agricultural monitoring.^[2] The GLAM project connects FAS crop assessment workflows with 8-day, 250 m MODIS NDVI from Terra and Aqua for near-real-time global crop condition monitoring.^[3]

Sources

[1]USDA Estimation of Crop Production (USGS)agency doc2026-06-20
[2]FAS Geospatial Dataagency doc2026-06-20
[3]Monitoring Global Croplands with Coarse Resolution EO: The GLAM Projectpeer reviewed2026-06-20
[4]USDA Spring 2026 Data Users' Meetingagency doc2026-10-19

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:usda-fas,
  title = {USDA Foreign Agricultural Service},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/usda-fas}
}