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
SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO) Hosts Virtual Training Event in Collaboration with AmeriGEO
The AmeriGEO-funded Synthetic-Aperture Radar Capacity Building Center (SAR-CBC) and SERVIR held a 4-day virtual training on 11/28-30/22 and 12/2/22 for participants from across AmeriGEO countries and within the Central American Aerospace Network (RAC for its acronym in Spanish). RAC is …
Manil Maskey (IMPACT/ST11) led two workshops at NeurIPS AI conference in New Orleans 11/28/22 as part of the STEM outreach program. About 50 local high school students attended the two workshops where they learned about how NASA uses AI to …
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As of 12/1/22, AST Jim Nelson (SERVIR-Amazonia) had launched his team’s GEOGloWS Streamflow Prediction Tool service for four agencies across Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil. The launch ceremonies showcased the current and future work to integrate the tool into existing …
The beta version of the Science Discovery Engine (SDE) was released at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago, IL. The SDE is an integrated SMD search capability that enables discovery of open data and information across SMD’s …
Severe storms tore across the Southern US on 12/13-14/22. During that two-day period the International Space Station Lightning Imaging Sensor (ISS-LIS) made two distinct overpasses over the storm system, monitoring lightning output as storms were rapidly developing. Earth Observatory highlighted …