Daily Forecasts of Wildland Fire Impacts on Air Quality in the Pacific Northwest: Enhancing the Air Indicator Report for Public Awareness and Community Tracking (AIRPACT) Decision Support System

Principal Investigator

Steven Edburg

The Northwest International Air Quality, Environmental Science & Technology (NW-AIRQUEST) consortium was formed with the goal to develop sound scientific tools for air quality management. Beginning in 2001, with NW-AIRQUEST support, Washington State University (WSU) developed a state-of-science numerical air quality forecast system called the...
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Developing global building exposure for disaster forecasting, mitigation, and response

Principal Investigator

Ronald Eguchi

Catastrophe (CAT) models help insurance companies price insurance by using data from natural hazard physical parameters (e.g., ground motion, flood depth, wind speed) to assess risk and probable loss. These models depend on geographic information systems (GIS) databases to characterize building exposure, but in emerging...

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Development and application of spatially refined remote sensing active fire data sets in support of fire monitoring, management and planning

Principal Investigator

Wilfrid Schroeder

Satellite active fire data have been produced routinely for over two decades. Fire detection products are currently derived from both polar and geostationary systems with spatial resolutions normally ranging from 1-4km, and temporal resolution ranging from 15min to 12h. Due to the spectral characteristics of...
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DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-SCALE REMOTE-SENSING BASED FRAMEWORK FOR MAPPING DROUGHT OVER NORTH AMERICA

Principal Investigator

Christopher Hain

During the Stage I Feasibility period, we propose to develop a multi-scale drought monitoring tool for North America based on remotely sensed estimates of evapotranspiration. The Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) represents anomalies in the ratio of actual-to-potential ET (fPET), generated with the thermal remote sensing...
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Evaluate and Enhance the VIIRS Aerosol EDRs for Air Quality and Public Health Applications

Principal Investigator

Jun Wang

Among all the VIIRS EDRs, most relevant to the air quality and public health applications are the Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) and Atmospheric Suspended Matter (ASM) EDRs. The accuracy in deriving surface Particulate Matter (PM) concentration and particle size parameter is intrinsically amenable to the...
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Global Agricultural Monitoring: Transitioning NPP VIIRS Observations into the USDA FAS Decision Support System

Principal Investigator

Chris Justice

The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is currently operates the only agricultural monitoring system that is global, providing critical information on global crop production in the context of global markets and food security. Since the 1970’s, NASA and the USDA have been working together to...

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Global monitoring of agricultural drought: A contribution to GEO GLAM

Principal Investigator

Chris Justice

With a billion people suffering from hunger, an ever-growing global population and increasing market volatility, the question of food security is getting increased attention. Following the ¿Global Food Crisis¿ in 2008, the Summit on Food Security called for improved international cooperation, improved access to knowledge...
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Improving Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Hydrologic Disaster Forecasting and Response by Assimilating and Fusing NASA and Other Data Sets

Principal Investigator

Xu Liang

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has the primary responsibility for traffic and roadway management for the states entire roadway system. Severe weather-related roadway conditions such as flash floods, snow storms, and icy roads can cause dramatic hydrologic disasters. To protect life and property and...
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Near Real-time Volcanic Cloud Products for Aviation Alerts

Principal Investigator

Nickolay Krotkov

Volcanic eruptions can inject significant amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and particulate matter (ash) into the atmosphere, posing a substantial risk to aviation safety. Ingesting near-real time (NRT) satellite volcanic cloud data is vital for improving reliability of volcanic ash forecasts and mitigating effects of...
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The GEO Global Agriculture Monitoring Task: Supporting the GEOSS vision for an Agricultural Monitoring System of Systems

Principal Investigator

Chris Justice

The GEO acknowledges sustainable agriculture as one of the critical societal benefit areas (SBA) for international cooperation and collaboration. The agriculture SBA calls for an operational system for monitoring global agriculture that includes the following three main functional components: • Global mapping and monitoring of...

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