SERVIR AST Principal Investigator Shrad Shukla and colleagues—Greg Husak (University of California, Santa Barbara), Dan McEvoy (Desert Research Institute), and Amy McNally (FEWS NET/NASA)—conducted a week-long capacity building training at the Agrometeorology, Hydrology and Meteorology Regional Center (AGRHYMET) during the …
The IMPACT team’s paper “Pixel level smoke detection model with deep neural network”, led by Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian (UAH/IMPACT), Aaron Kaulfus (ST11) and others, was published in the recent Remote Sensing Proceedings of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. …
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SERVIR’s West Africa hub held its official launch ceremony for its second 5-year phase at GEO Week / AfriGEO Symposium in Accra, Ghana, on November 1. This second phase is led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid …
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On 11/4/22, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and USAID Administrator Samantha Power participated in the MOU signing ceremony, renewing and expanding collaborations between the two agencies, including efforts addressing critical challenges in food security, air quality, extreme weather, and climate change, …
Timothy Lang (ST11) was recently profiled on the NASA Earthdata website (https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/data-user-profiles/user-profile-timothy-lang). The profile discusses Lang’s research on thunderstorms, lightning, precipitation, and winds and how he uses NASA datasets from the Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC), Data and Information Services …
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On 11/21/22, Ed Keeble (IMPACT/Development Seed) and Shelby Bagwell (UAH/IMPACT) of the Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) presented an ESDS Technology Spotlight titled “A Semi-automated GCMD Keyword Update Capability to Ensure Service Consistency” detailing a newly developed and implemented database …
Pontus Olofsson gave an invited presentation titled “Comprehensive Monitoring of Environmental Change: New Opportunities For Capacity Building” in technical session 2-6: Land Cover and Land Use Change and Impacts on Decision Making Processes Affecting Food Security and Environment. The talk …
At the 27th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27), Laura Lorenzoni, Program Scientist in the Earth Science Division at NASA HQ, shared the stage with USAID, NOAA, the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Center (ICPAC) in Kenya, and …
NASA SPoRT launched a new Stakeholder Summit and Seminar Series on 11/16/22. The goal of the NASA SPoRT Stakeholder Summit and Seminar Series is to recruit new end users as well as engage current stakeholders on a quarterly basis. SPoRT …
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Ronan Lucey (UAH) gave an invited colloquium to the Geography Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on 10/27/22, and an invited seminar to the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on October 28, 2022. …
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