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
Updated Stakeholder Lists Sent to Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) Solution Implementation Teams
Commercial data access and products derived from commercial data would help meet many satellite needs submitted by Federal civilian agencies to the 2022 SNWG survey. The 2022 SNWG assessment wrapped up on 6/1/23, when NASA returned 115 reports to OMB/OSTP/USGEO …
The IMPACT team, led by Rahul Ramachandran (ST11), in collaboration with NASA SMD and IBM through its Space Act Agreement, held a kick off meeting for the newly formed working group to explore different Natural Language Technologies (NLT) to design, …
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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international community standards organization focusing on developing and defining open standards for the geospatial community to allow interoperability between various software, and data services. It held its 126th member meeting in Huntsville, AL during …
On 5/25/23 Brian Freitag (ST11) gave a presentation titled “The VEDA Platform: Lowering the Barrier to Entry for Earth Science Applications” as part of the AOS applications seminar series. The AOS mission addresses two key elements of the Earth System …
Manil Maskey (ST11), of the Interagency Implementation and Advance Concepts Team (IMPACT), leads the team responsible for developing the data system for the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Center (GHG Center). Working alongside government partners from NOAA, NASA, EPA, and NIST, …