Mexico - Maize

NASA LCLUC - Impact of climate change on maize production

This project, funded by the NASA LCLUC (Land-Cover and Land-Use Change) program, examines agricultural transitions and climate change impacts across Mexico for the nation’s main grain crop: maize.

We are utilizing multi-decadal remote sensing data to quantify maize transitions and map crop-type across the study region from 2000 to the present.

Objectives

• Mapping Maize Transitions: Understanding how policy and markets drive land-use shifts.
• Climate Resilience: Assessing how maize farmers adapt to changing precipitation and temperature patterns.
• Satellite Analytics: Leveraging Google Earth Engine for large-scale time series analysis of Sentinel and Landsat data.

Project Details

• Funding: NASA LCLUC Program
• Collaborators: Dr. Meha Jain (UMich), Dr. Victor Prudente
• Project Site: Official NASA LCLUC Project Site

Related Publications

• Prudente et al. (2025) — Mapping Grain Crop Start of Season in Smallholder Systems Using Optical Imagery — Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE)
  • Read the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101660

Multimedia

Visualizing maize distribution and adaptation metrics across study sites.