This proposed work is intended to facilitate important collaborative interaction among Universities Space Research Association (USRA), NASA, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the University of Veracruz in Mexico. The latter three agencies were recently...

Emerging infectious diseases are increasingly a global and regional security issue with the capacity to have serious human health and economic impacts, and to harm U.S. interests abroad by destabilizing key institutions. Through the integration of NASA Earth Science results into the DoD-Global Emerging Infectious...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for protecting public health through development and enforcement of environmental standards. EPA's strategic plan defines 'Clean Air and Global Climate Change' as one of their five primary goals. It is pursuing this goal with the help of...

This project bridges individual health and community health by forecasting atmospheric ozone, dust and other aerosols that trigger asthmatic responses or myocardial infarction; and, by enhancing the New Mexico Environmental Public Health Tracking System¿s ability to prepare for, and to provide early warning to, populations...

Summary: Area estimation of croplands is a challenge, made difficult by the variety of cropping systems, including crop types, management practices, and field sizes. The goal of this project is to work towards a standard method for estimating cultivated crop area at the global scale...

We propose to use NASA data, models and analysis techniques to enhance the decision capabilities concerning avian influenza (AI) and pandemic influenza risks at partner and end-user organizations. The DoD Global Emerging Infection Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) and the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit-2...

This proposal addresses the identified ROSES 2007 priority areas of air quality and public health. Specifically, in the air quality area the aspects of emissions inventories and forecasting are addressed in our proposal. These improved inventories will also support more accurate assessments of human and...

Addressing the Disaster Management National Priority Area, we will exploit the increasingly available global and regional real-time GPS data from NASA's operational Global Differential GPS (GDGPS) System to enable more accurate and timely assessment of the magnitude and mechanism of large earthquakes, as well as...

This Integrated Systems Solution project responds directly to the national priority application of agricultural efficiency. Specifically, the project employs innovative approaches to integrate Earth Science results to improve the timeliness and accuracy of the acreage estimation decision support system (DSS) run by USDA's National Agricultural...