# USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
*agency . companies*

## Specifications
- **operator domains**: ["fas.usda.gov"]
- **country**: United States
- **website**: https://fas.usda.gov
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-20
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **attributes**: {"kind":"agency","operator_domains":"[\"fas.usda.gov\"]","country":"United States","website":"https://fas.usda.gov"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
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.[^usgs-pecad] 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.[^usgs-pecad] 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.[^fas-geospatial-search] 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.[^researchgate-glam]

## Sources
- [researchgate-glam] | Monitoring Global Croplands with Coarse Resolution EO: The GLAM Project | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45267369_Monitoring_Global_Croplands_with_Coarse_Resolution_Earth_Observations_The_Global_Agriculture_Monitoring_GLAM_Project | tier=peer-reviewed | accessed=2026-06-20
- [usgs-pecad] | USDA Estimation of Crop Production (USGS) | https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fort/science/usda-estimation-crop-production | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [fas-geospatial-search] | FAS Geospatial Data | https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/geospatial | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20

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