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
Deborah Smith (UAH/IMPACT) co-convened a session at the Winter ESIP virtual meeting on January 25, 2023 with Sara Lubkin of NASA Earth Science Data and Information Systems (ESDIS) and Michele Thornton of the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Distributed Active …
NASA (with NOAA and USGS) is leading a tri-agency assessment of Federal agency satellite Earth observation needs submitted through the 2022 SNWG survey. An important early step in the assessment process is meeting with each submitting agency to fully understand …
Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) Agency Interviews Nearing Completion Read More »
To improve future collaboration and data sharing between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) worked with ESA counterparts to develop infrastructure to support transferring data at the petabyte scale. On February …
On February 1, IBM and NASA announced a new collaboration to develop and apply artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models for Earth science. At the press event, 26 reporters attended and over 70 news outlets have released feature articles highlighting the …
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Aligned with NASA’s 2023 open-science initiative, the Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project has made all supporting code repositories and associated documentation publicly available and accessible via GitHub. VEDA believes that the open sourcing of its code allows for …