Our Project Portfolio
Earth Action supports a variety of projects that utilize Earth observations to help address challenges facing communities around the globe. Our portfolio demonstrates the benefits of using NASA Earth observations to inform decision and policy-making to improve life on Earth for all.
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Team: Ford Freyberg (Project Lead), Carson Schuetze, Jessica Hiatt, Brenner Burkholder
Summary: Escalating severity and frequency of drought and wildfire call for effective and cost-… Read More
Team: Talissa Cota (Project Lead), Dana Drinkall, Ryan Healey, Tyler Morvant
Summary: The western United States has experienced twenty years of increased and prolonged drought, which has… Read More
Team Members: Miriam Marlier (University of California, Los Angeles), Claire Schollaert (University of Washington), Diane Garcia-Gonzales (University of California, Los Angeles), Michael Jerret (University of California, Los Angeles), Claire Schollaert (University… Read More
Team: Benjamin D. Goffin (Project Lead), Quinton Deppert, Aashutosh Aryal
Summary: Since 2010, Central and South-Central Chile have recorded abnormally low annual precipitation,… Read More
This project explores the potential of Remote Sensing (RS) and spatial data to advance Environmental Justice, with a focus on tribal land and water resources management. By studying past projects that effectively employed spatial data and GIS-based tools in resource management, we… Read More
Catastrophic wildfire economic losses in recent years underscore the need to more accurately estimate… Read More
This Phase I study effort will begin the process of increasing exposure of NASA’s Wildland Fire Management Program and data with the Moraga-Orinda Fire District in California by using… Read More
Wildfire is a known agent of change significantly altering vegetation and soils of burned watersheds.… Read More
Team: Nora Carmody (Project Lead), Lillian Gordon, Nathan Teich, Josh Virene
Summary: Over the last several decades, wildfire frequency and severity in forested areas along… Read More
Team: Kelli Roberts (Project Lead), William Hadley, Daniel Littleton
Summary: Wildfire potential monitoring, which is increasingly vital under climate change-induced droughts… Read More
Team: Suhani Dalal (Project Lead), Katera Lee, Chandler Ross, Gabriel Rosenstein
Summary: Heightened occurrence of severe wildfires in the Western United States is increasing the… Read More
Machine Learning (ML… Read More
Team: Brenna Hatch (Project Lead), Kenya Creer, Jennifer Sobolewski, Nicole Roberts
Summary: Wildfire season in the western USA is starting earlier and gaining in intensity. The Bootleg… Read More
Wildfire… Read More
PI: Pete Robichaud, U.S. Forest Service Co-I: Mariana Dobre. University of Idaho Co-I: Ian Floyd. U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Co-I: Mary Miller. Michigan Technological University Co-I: Guy Schumann, ImageCat, Inc.
We are collecting specific… Read More
Team: Casey Menick (Project Lead), Haley Stuckmeyer, Heidi Rogers, Yeshey Seldon
Summary: The 2000 Jasper Fire in the Black Hills of South Dakota was the largest wildfire to date in… Read More
Team: Teo Rautu, Mark Cervantes, Britt Hays, Alec Wallen
Summary: Within the intermountain west, monitoring vegetation fuel loads is a major component of wildland fire… Read More