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

Paper Accepted for Publication in IEEE Cloud Proceedings for Large Scale Data Transfer Study with ESA

July 24, 2023

A team from NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) led by Brian Freitag (ST11) collaborated with the European Space Agency (ESA) on the development of a software architecture to support data transfer at the petabyte scale. The successful …

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Demonstration of the Visualization, Exploration, and Data analysis (VEDA) Platform to the NASA CYGNSS and SERVIR Science Teams

July 24, 2023

On 5/12/23, Brian Freitag (ST11) presented a live demonstration of the VEDA platform to the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) and SERVIR science teams to identify potential collaborations. The demonstration focused on the VEDA platform’s exploration and analysis …

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Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) Reports Finalized and Distributed

July 24, 2023

NASA led the assessment of 115 submissions to the SNWG 2022 survey of the high-priority satellite data needs of Federal civilian agencies. Each agency that submitted a survey receives a report with a detailed assessment of the satellite need; information …

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International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Gives Special Award on Space for Climate Protection to the Earth Observing Dashboard

June 27, 2023

The IAF Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC 2023) convened the week of 5/22/23 to discuss climate change and to explore contributions that the space community is making to inform smarter and more effective policies. Considering the importance of …

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Spotlight Speaker at IBM Think 2023

June 27, 2023

Rahul Ramachandran (ST11) was the spotlight speaker in the “What’s Next in AI for Business: Foundation Models, Large Language Models and Generative AI” session at IBM’s premiere event. Think 2023 is hosted by IBM and their partners to bring together …

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