{"id":832,"date":"2022-08-12T03:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T03:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/?p=832"},"modified":"2022-09-04T03:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T03:52:25","slug":"nasa-develop-end-of-summer-bhutan-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/nasa-develop-end-of-summer-bhutan-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Develop End-of-Summer Bhutan Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Permanent Representative Ambassador Doma Tshering attended the NASA Develop End-of-Summer Bhutan Presentation, held virtually on 12 August 2022. The Presentation was on the project, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhutan Agriculture II: Assessing and Developing Focal Crop Masks and Creating Data Collection Protocols using Remotely Sensed Data in Bhutan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8221; which was undertaken by four Bhutanese students studying in the United States (Wangdrak Dorji, Tenzin Wangmo, Sonam Seldon Tshering, Karma Dorjee).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is undertaken as part of the Interagency Agreement between the Royal Government of Bhutan and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. Department of State to strengthen the foundations of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (or STEM) in Bhutan through expanded use of Earth observation information and data. Since June 2020, NASA DEVELOP has been providing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opportunities for Bhutanese interns based in the United States to undertake relevant projects using Earth Sciences and satellite technology. Eight projects on Bhutan, including the Bhutan Agriculture II have been completed till date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hon\u2019ble Lyonpo Yeshey Penjor, Minister for Agriculture and Forest, Mr. Michael Flores, Dy. Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of State, Dr. Julie Robinson, Deputy Director of NASA Earth Science Division and officials from NASA, the Ministry of Agriculture, and Bhutan Foundation attended the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-833 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/12-Aug-NASA-students-175x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/12-Aug-NASA-students-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/12-Aug-NASA-students-597x1024.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/12-Aug-NASA-students-768x1317.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/12-Aug-NASA-students.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent Representative Ambassador Doma Tshering attended the NASA Develop End-of-Summer Bhutan Presentation, held virtually on 12 August 2022. The Presentation was on the project, \u201cBhutan Agriculture II: Assessing and Developing Focal Crop Masks and Creating Data Collection Protocols using Remotely Sensed Data in Bhutan,&#8221; which was undertaken by four Bhutanese students studying in the United &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}