OpTIS Webinars

Hosted by CTIC

OpTIS 4.0:
New National Baseline Data
for Climate Smart Ag
September 27, 2023

Description: Featured speakers:

  • Allison Thomson (Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research)
  • Rob Manes (The Nature Conservancy)
  • Soren Rundquist (Regrow Ag)
  • Debbie Reed (Ecosystem Services Market Consortium)
  • Dave Gustafson (Conservation Technology Information Center)

 

OpTIS 3.0:
Unlocking Water
Quality Insights
April 26, 2023

Description: Featured speakers:

  • Asmita Murumkar (The Ohio State University)
  • Soren Rundquist (Regrow Ag)
  • Dave Gustafson (Conservation Technology Information Center)

 

OpTIS
High Level Insights
on Cover Crops
April 29, 2022

Description:Featured speakers:

  • Roderick “Rod” Rejesus (North Carolina State University)
  • Soren Rundquist (Regrow Ag)
  • Dave Gustafson (Conservation Technology Information Center)

 

 

Hosted by The Nature Conservancy

OpTIS 2.0:
New Data, Regions,
& Insights
June 16, 2021

Description: The Nature Conservancy, the Conservation Technology Information Center, and Regrow Agriculture share the latest expansion of the Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS) data. Guest speakers include: Linda Prokopy, Ph.D., Purdue University; Margaret Jodlowski, Ph.D., Ohio State University; and Ian Crawford, Sustainability Manager, Simplot Agribusiness.

OpTIS and DNDC:
Mining Diamonds from
Soil Carbon Data
October 16, 2020

Description: View the hour-long webinar recording from Oct. 16, 2020. This is the second webinar in our OpTIS series. This webinar focuses on how a variety of users are employing the DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC) model with data from the OpTIS tool to estimate the influence of soil-health-building practices on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics. Run through DNDC, the OpTIS data set provides deep insights into the environmental effects of conservation agriculture practices at watershed and landscape scales.

Using Satellite Imagery Data to Understand Trends in Conservation Agriculture Practices
May 29, 2020

Description: A webinar on OpTIS (Operational Tillage Information System), an automated system that uses satellite imagery data to understand trends in conservation agriculture practices.

 

Informational Animation

OpTIS:
New Data Drives Conservation Solutions
April 10, 2020

Description: The Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS) uses satellite imagery to track annual trends in tillage and cover crop adoption, yielding data that can assist scientists, policy makers and carbon trading managers. Learn more at nature.org/OpTIS.

 

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