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
Blaze Petabyte-Scale Data Tata Transfer Architecture Developed Open-Sourced in NASA Software Catalog
In collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) at NASA MSFC developed software to enable data transfer at the petabyte-scale. The team, led by Brian Freitag (ST11), successfully transferred 5.7 PB of …
The Amazon Fire Dashboard (amzfire.servirglobal.net) provides users a bird’s eye view of current or historical fire events in the greater Amazon region and the ability to filter fire events according to location, date range, and fire status. Users can use …
SERVIR Releases Amazon Fire Dashboard Application Read More »
Held on the University of Costa Rica campus in San Jose, from 8/7-12/23, the AmeriGEO Week 2023 event showcased Earth observation (EO) activities across the Americas and brought together almost 300 members of the regional Earth observation community, in an …
SERVIR Team Provides Support to AmeriGEO Week 2023 Event, Including Keynote Address Read More »
On 8/3/23, NASA, IBM, and Hugging Face announced the public release of a Geospatial FM for NASA Earth Observation data. In collaboration with Clark University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics, the European Space Agency (ESA), USGS, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, …
Public Release of the HLS Geospatial Foundation Model (FM) on Hugging Face Read More »
On 8/1/23, the SERVIR Science Coordination Office’s Emil Cherrington and Christine Evans provided a virtual training on greenhouse gas emission estimation as a pre-event to the AmeriGEO Week 2023 activity. In the context of NASA’s declaring 2023 to be “A …
SERVIR Hosts Virtual Training on Greenhouse Gas Estimation for AmeriGEO Week Event Read More »