Earth Science Branch

The Earth Science Branch conducts research of the Earth as a system with a focus on lightning and precipitation processes, weather and climate variability, monitoring fluxes of heat and water from the surface, and associated data management and mining activities for scientific discovery and applications for societal benefit.

Earth Science Branch Projects

MSFC Earth Science Presence at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA

January 29, 2024

At this year’s hybrid AGU fall meeting, twenty-six members of IMPACT attended in-person or virtually to represent their respective IMPACT projects from 12/11-15/23. In total, 19 posters, 19 orals, and 2 e-lightning presentations were presented online or at the event …

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Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG)

January 29, 2024

The SNWG Management Office (MO) had multiple presentations at the 2023 AGU Fall Meeting, which was attended by over 25,000 geoscientists. Pontus Olofsson organized and facilitated the first SNWG town hall, which included presentations to approximately 80 attendees on several …

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Kaylin Bugbee Elected as the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Division President

January 29, 2024

Kaylin Bugbee of the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT/ST11) was elected the president of the EGU Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) division. As a first-time elected Division President, Bugbee will be inaugurated during the EGU plenary meeting …

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Blaze Large-Scale Data Transfer Framework Used by European Space Agency (ESA) Centre for Earth Observation to Transfer Data at the Petabyte Scale

January 29, 2024

The Blaze large scale data transfer tool developed by the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) (https://software.nasa.gov/software/MFS-34433-1) was recently leveraged by the European Space Agency Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) to facilitate petabyte scale data transfer of Sentinel-1 data. …

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Tutorial Session at the Big Data from Space 2023 Event

January 29, 2024

Manil Maskey and Olaf Veerman, members of the IMPACT team, took part in the Big Data from Space 2023 event, which occurred from 11/6-9/23. Maskey contributed as a member of the program committee, while Veerman conducted a tutorial on the …

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