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.
On 10/29/21, the CSDA Program and Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota released a new the availability of a high resolution digital elevation model (DEM). This is the first release of data from the EarthDEM Project, whose goal …
On 10/4/21, the HLS team within the Satellite Needs Working Group Project Office (SWNG-PO) began the archival processing of the HLS data products. The archive extends back to 2013 for Landsat and 2015 for Sentinel-2 and processing of these data …
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In late October, NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency) publicly released the Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP), a revolutionary open-source science tool for analyzing Earth science data in the cloud. Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) members …
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Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) was the keynote speaker at the ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on 11/2/21. His talk titled “AI Meets Data Systems: Transforming Data Search”, discussed NASA’s effort to utilize data-driven approaches to enhance data documentation and search. The workshop was …
On 10/28/21, Kaylin Bugbee (ST11) participated in the NASA Citizen Science Autumn 2021 Seminar Series workshop on ‘Drafting a Skeleton of a NASA Citizen Science Data Primer’. The seminar series is a professional learning series for those leading, hoping to …