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
The Inter-Agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts (IMPACT) team members Brian Freitag, Rahul Ramachandran, and Matt Hicks (ST11) met with ESA and USGS to formulate a workable solution for accessing the historical Sentinel-2 data archive (7 PB) for production of the …
The Inter-Agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts (IMPACT) team members, Manil Maskey and Shubhankar Gahlot (ST11), alongside the MSFC Disasters Team, are collaborating with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Earth Science Informatics …
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SERVIR, as part of the NASA Earth Sciences Capacity Building Program, met on 4/7/21 with the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute of Conservation and Environment Research (UWICER), the National Centre for Hydrology and Metrology (NCHM), and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forest …
Unsustainable charcoal production degrades the Ghanaian environment through deforestation, degradation, soil fertility loss, erosion, and wildfires. To support the charcoal monitoring service being implemented by SERVIR-West Africa and the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS, based in …
In March, Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) and SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya convened over 20 agricultural officers and extension staff from Nepal’s agricultural regions to expand the use of GeoFairy in crop yield assessments. GeoFairy is a mobile …