Olin, Alex

Bio

Alex Olin is the Ukraine Strategic Partnerships Manager at NASA Harvest, NASA’s Global Food Supply and Agriculture Consortium coordinated by the University of Maryland. Her work focuses on building public–private partnerships to support Ukraine’s agricultural resilience and food security.

Alex’s core objective is securing and integrating critical agricultural data for research and project implementation, with a focus on food security, agricultural monitoring, and policy in the contexts of sustainability and technological advancement of Ukraine’s public and private sectors.

Before joining NASA Harvest, she worked across the agricultural sector, including agricultural enterprises focused on large-scale crop production and AgTech startups developing data-driven solutions for farmers. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Science and brings direct, hands-on field experience from Ukraine, with strong practical knowledge of agricultural operations on the ground. 

Degrees

  • Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Science | National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Areas of Interest

  • Agriculture, Sustainability, Ukraine

Research Topics

  • Geospatial Information Science and Remote Sensing
  • Sadeh, Y., Wagner, J., Nair, S, S., Oliinyk, O., Belles, E., Bibih, A., D’Harboullé, L., Bendahmane, H., Gupta, M., Becker-Reshef, I. (2025). National-Scale In-Season Field Boundaries of Ukraine Using Remote Sensing. Scientific Data, 833 (2025).  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05190-7

  • Wagner, J., Nair, S, S., Skakun, S., Duncan, E.C., Li, F., Oliinyk, O., Nerry, F., Rehbinder, J., Becker-Reshef, I. (2025). Monitoring cropland cultivation, abandonment, fallowing and recultivation dynamics with regard to conflict intensity in war-affected Ukraine. Science of Remote Sensing, 100326. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666017225001324

  • Wagner, J., Skakun, S., Nair, S. S., Sadeh, Y., Baber, S., Oliinyk, O., Kotcharlakota, A. Gupta, M., Poliakov, D., Vaskivskyi, B., Misiura, O., Kussul, N., Prykhodko, D., Sikachyna, O., Rajaoberison, A., Li, F., Chevassu, M., Rehbinder, J., Nerry, F., Mitkish, M., Becker-Reshef, I. (2026). Monitoring winter crop areas during wartime: remote sensing support for Ukraine’s agricultural statistics. Npj, sustainable agriculture, 1 (2026). https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00119-4

  • Nair, S. S., Wagner, J., Skakun, S., Sadeh, Y., Gupta, M., Lampert, T., Hosseini, M., Khabbazan, S., Baber, S., Munshell, B., Li, F., Kotcharlakota, A., Oliinyk, O., Poliakov, D., Duncan, E., Becker-Reshef, I. (2026). In-season winter crop harvest status monitoring in Ukraine for 2022 using unsupervised change detection. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 101877. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352938526000108

  • Khabbazan, S., Hosseini, M., Becker-Reshef, I., McNairn, H., Oliinyk, O. Harvest date estimation over corn and sunflower fields usingSentinel-1 and RADARSAT constellation mission data and machine learning algorithms. (2026). International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1996-2040. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tres20  

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Alex Olin
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