This project proposes a methodology that improves capabilities to forecast 1- to 6-month precipitation and water supply anomalies. Predicting and understanding droughts' effects on water resource systems is essential to securing sustainable water resources. This project will make unique contributions through a comprehensive and challenging...

Our primary objective is to improve our ability to apply remotely sensed measures of snow properties to improve in-season estimates of snow accumulation, snow melt and runoff in remote, snow-dominated mountain regions, which supply water to 1/5th of Earth’s population. The results enable decision makers...

The Cyanobacteria Assessment Network is a multi-agency project among the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Geological Survey to develop an early warning indicator system for algal bloom detection in U.S. freshwater systems. This research will utilize historical and...

The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) is responsible for the entire Colorado Basin and the eastern Great Basin. From a water management perspective, the commitment of water to various users most often occurs in the spring, and is almost entirely based on estimates of...

Supported by the NASA Applied Sciences Program, this project seeks to advance the capability of snowmelt flood prediction in the Red River of the North basin (RRB) to the development, testing, and operational stages via a partnership between the University of New Hampshire (UNH), North...

A joint project between the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)...

Sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida made landfall in the southern US on August 29, 2021. More than 1 million people lost power. NASA's Black Marble HD helped evaluate the impact of Hurricane Ida on electric grids within the neighborhoods of New Orleans...

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The GEO-BON Thematic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (MBON) supports the operational monitoring of marine biodiversity, defined broadly as the variety of life at the gene, species and ecosystem levels. Understanding how biodiversity changes across these levels provides insight to...

A joint project of the California Department of Water Resources (CDWR), U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Geological Survey, NASA Ames Research Center, and California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) has demonstrated the feasibility of tracking the extent of fallowed land in the Central Valley of...