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Daytime average land surface temperature over June 2022 from ECOSTRESS, an instrument on the ISS. Warm colors highlight the City of Huntsville, which is surrounded by central North Alabama. In both color gradients, darker colors represent higher temperatures. The Tennessee River, together with Wheeler Lake (left) and Lake Guntersville (right), appear black. Surface temperature is one factor that can help the local government decide where to focus tree-planting efforts to mitigate urban heat.

Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Map the Urban Heat Island and Evaluate Heat Vulnerability in Huntsville, Alabama

Topic
Urban Development
DEVELOP
Huntsville Urban Development II (Summer 2023) Team: James Karroum (Project Lead); Awroni Bhaduri, Kindrea Gibbons, Natalie O'Kraski Summary: Huntsville, Alabama has seen a boom in...
Average aerosol optical depth (AOD) for the months of May and June in 2015 in Oregon and Washington, derived from MODIS data. Orange represents higher aerosol concentrations whereas purple represents areas with lower aerosol concentrations. The AOD averages show higher observed AOD along the coasts of Oregon and Washington.

Monitoring Trends in Air Quality During a Drought Case Study to Improve Public Health Response to Drought Threats

Topic
DEVELOP
Health & Air Quality
Pacific Northwest Health & Air Quality (Summer 2023) Team: Abby Sgan (Project Lead), Greta Bolinger, Tallis Monteiro, Cristina Villalobos-Heredia, Taylor West Summary: Recent studies have...
Impervious surface imagery derived from Landsat 9 OLI-2 data. This composite was captured over the Finger Lakes region between April and October of 2022. Blue hues indicate dense vegetation while yellow hues indicate impervious areas. Areas in green indicate agricultural fields of interest to NGOs in the region that aim to prevent the conversion of agricultural lands to urban development.

Evaluating Agricultural Conservation Easement Impact Using Earth Observations to Examine Avoided Soil Carbon Loss to Development

Topic
DEVELOP
Ecological Conservation
New York Ecological Conservation (Summer 2023) Team: Sam Schulteis (Project Lead), Sam Haas, Stephanie Willsey, Oliver Wilson Summary: Farmland provides ecosystems and communities with services...
Processed bands displaying NDVI from 30m Landsat 8 OLI data. The average 2022-2023 growing-season NDVI displayed is representing a heavy agriculture region within the Aconcagua River Basin in Central Chile. Blue to green colors represent areas of bare ground or water while yellow to dark red colors display densely vegetated regions. NDVI when compared to hydrology parameters can indicate heavily irrigated farmlands.

Analyzing Hydrological Norms, Soil Moisture, Evapotranspiration, and Vegetation Indices to Assess Crop Water Demand and Water Usage in Chile’s Aconcagua Basin

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DEVELOP
Agriculture
Aconcagua Basin Agriculture (Summer 2023) Team: Javiera Canales (Project Lead), Daniela Quintero, Carmen Petras Summary: The Aconcagua basin has experienced a prolonged drought since 2010...
The data come from Landsat 9 OLI and MODIS satellites. The data shows surface reflectance imagery and combined (Terra and Aqua) MODIS burned areas from wildland fires in February 2023. The image shows parts of South-Central Chile covering Región del Maule, Región del Bío-Bío, and Región de La Araucanía. The processed data show burned areas in the region of interest from wildland fires and the smog from the fires. Red patches indicate burned areas.

Augmenting Wildfire Risk Assessment Efforts with Satellite-based Measurements of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Health in Central and South-Central Chile​

Topic
DEVELOP
Wildland Fires
Chile Wildland Fires (Summer 2023) Team: Benjamin D. Goffin (Project Lead), Quinton Deppert, Aashutosh Aryal Summary: Since 2010, Central and South-Central Chile have recorded abnormally...
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) calculated from Landsat 8 OLI showing land and aquatic vegetation around the Kankakee River in northeast Illinois on June 9, 2022. For land, dark blue represents high vegetation while light blue represents low vegetation. For water, light orange represents lack of aquatic vegetation, while purple represents the presence of aquatic vegetation. The image shows where along the Kankakee River aquatic vegetation exists.

Monitoring Temperature and Vegetation to Detect River Flow Impediments at Energy Intake Structures

Topic
DEVELOP
Water Resources
Kankakee Water Resources (Summer 2023) Team: Marisa Smedsrud (Project Lead); Hayden Hoffmeister; Oluwatosin Orimolade; Barira Rashid Summary: In recent years, unpredictable grassing events have occurred...
NDVI-processed image from Landsat 8 OLI June 2022 data. Black and magenta indicates Portland's built landscape, with the bright magenta depicting the highest concentrations of impervious surfaces. In light pink, the Willamette River dissects the city with surrounding green vegetation. The NDVI conveys areas with high urban build-up with a lack of access to greenspace, illustrating lived experiences of urban heat and contributing to Depave's knowledge of areas that are in most need of depaving.

Quantifying and Visualizing Urban Heat Island and Compounding Vulnerabilities in Portland, Oregon to Support Community Depaving Initiatives

Topic
Urban Development
DEVELOP
Portland Urban Development (Summer 2023) Team: Keegan Kessler (Project Lead), Hadwynne Gross, Jordan Larson, Adam Nayak Summary: Urban heat is a pressing concern in Portland...
2022 imagery of 95th percentile Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data from Terra/Aqua MODIS mapped against social vulnerability data from the EPA's EJScreen within the San Joaquin Valley's census tracts. Pink indicates higher levels of at-risk populations, and blue indicates higher levels of AOD. Darker shades of blue and purple indicate an overlap of high levels of air pollution and high at-risk population.

Evaluating the Overlap of Social Vulnerabilities and Air Quality in the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District

Topic
DEVELOP
Health & Air Quality
San Joaquin Valley Health & Air Quality (Summer 2023) Team: Jonathan Szeto (Project Lead), Jasper Beardslee, Piper Christian, Bethany MacCarter, Alma Quintero Summary: Little Manila...
Smoke flumes from fire hovers over Nepal
Applied Sciences
Capacity Building
Health & Air Quality
Prizes & Challenges

NASA SERVIR Air Quality Explorer Gets An Upgrade Through Crowdsourcing

By
Trista Brophy Cerquera, (Former NASA Applied Sciences Intern)
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Elissa Fielding, (NASA Earth Action Intern)
,
Shobhana Gupta, MD, PhD
Historic map of the Harbor used in this study.

Understanding Contaminant Risk through Stories of 'Āina (Relationships between People and Places) in Ke Awa Lau o Pu'uloa (Pearl Harbor)

Topic
Applied Sciences
Equity and Environmental Justice
Water Resources
Team: Sandy Ward (Mālama Puʻuloa) Donn Viviani (Leeward Community College) Mia Comeros-Raynal (Water Resources Research Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) Dingyi Liu...

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