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 tornado outbreak on 12/10/21 that tore through the southeast caused devastating damage in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and especially Kentucky. The team at MSFC, in support of the NASA Disasters program, is supporting the response and recovery efforts by providing …
MSFC Disasters Team Activates for Tornado Outbreak Read More »
Results from an ongoing evaluation indicate that SERVIR’s HYDRAFloods tool contributed to the roll-out of $2.2+ million in aid that reached over 200,000 affected people during the 2020 Cambodia floods. Food aid, sanitation measures, medicine, and shelters, were coordinated through …
Laura Duncanson was a key speaker in the “Monitoring the Lungs of the World from Space” panel at COP26. The panel discussed tracking carbon emissions from deforestation rates from space, as well as, how much carbon is being drawn from …
Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) made an invited presentation entitled “Deep Learning for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing” at the Pacific Islands GIS & Remote Sensing User Conference on 11/22/21. The presentation discussed how NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program is …
Presentation at the Pacific Islands GIS & Remote Sensing User Conference Read More »
To support the NASA OSSI outreach effort, the IMPACT team designed and developed a responsive framework to publish OSSI related content. The framework focuses on updating content easily and using only markdown files (instead of the html, which is much …
IMPACT Contributes to the Open-Source Science Initiative (OSSI) Outreach Read More »