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
Pontus Olofsson (ST11) co-authored a paper titled “Review of drivers of forest degradation and deforestation in Southeast Asia.” The study, funded by a grant from the NASA Carbon Monitoring System awarded to Olofsson, presents a review of studies of drivers …
Manil Maskey (ST1) co-authored a position paper entitled “Data-centric Machine Learning Research — Past, Present and Future.” The pre-print of the paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13028. This work represents a joint effort by experts in artificial intelligence from industry, government, …
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Funded by a NASA ROSES research grant from the Land-Cover and Land-Cover Change (LCLUC) Program awarded to Pontus Olofsson, an interdisciplinary research team has for three years studied environmental changes in the country of Georgia following the collapse of the …
Pontus Olofsson co-authored a paper titled “A global land cover training dataset from 1984 to 2020” that presents a global dataset for training machine learning algorithms in remote sensing applications. The dataset contains nearly two million training units spanning the …
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NASA’s SMD Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) working group in collaboration with IBM Research, has developed a specialized language model. The model is trained on scientific corpus from relevant publications such as NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), the …