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Wildfires

An Inside Look at U.S. Wildland Fire Response

By
Jenessa Stemke, NASA FireSense intern
Median daily evapotranspiration (ET) from September 2021 to May 2022 calculated from ISS ECOSTRESS data. The image covers the agricultural fields adjacent to the Maipo River, Chile and depicts water stress. The color scale ranges from red (low ET) to blue (high ET), with higher ET observed over irrigated agricultural fields. ET is used for estimating crop irrigation requirements. This data will inform irrigation management practices and help alleviate water scarcity within the area. ​

Assessing Drought and Fire Conditions, Trends, and Susceptibility to Inform State Mitigation Efforts and Bolster Monitoring Protocol in North Central Idaho 

Topic
DEVELOP
Wildfires
Capacity Building
IDAHO WILDFIRES (Summer 2022) Team: Ford Freyberg (Project Lead), Carson Schuetze, Jessica Hiatt, Brenner Burkholder Summary: Escalating severity and frequency of drought and wildfire call...
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) generated from an October 5, 2021 Landsat 8 OLI image of Yellowstone National Park. The dark green shades represent areas with healthy vegetation, yellow depicts bare ground, and intermediate shades reflect a gradient of vegetation productivity. Areas with NDVI values that vary throughout the year are indicative of deciduous vegetation and can help resource managers understand changes in aspen stand extent.​

Assessing Change in Aspen Extent in Northern Yellowstone National Park

Topic
DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Ecological Conservation
Yellowstone Ecological Forecasting II (Fall 2022) Team: Vanessa Bailey (Project Lead), Ryan Brinton, Samantha Snowden, Aliza White Summary: Aspen stands in Yellowstone National Park have...
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Ecological Conservation

Hemlock Forests Under Attack by Sap-Sucking Bugs

By
Marissa Kunerth, Applied Sciences Writer
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Capacity Building
Ecological Conservation
Water Resources

Tenacious Plant Threatens Birds in Lake Thurmond

By
Marissa Kunerth, Applied Sciences Writer
NDTI-processed river imagery from 2021 PlanetScope data with GPM IMERG data shown in blue. The Shoshone River in northwestern Wyoming is shown with red values indicating lower turbidity and yellow values representing higher turbidity. Lighter blue values indicate higher monthly mean IMERG precipitation values for 2021. NDTI values and precipitation averages help watershed managers understand where and when excess sediment enters the river.​

Assessing Sediment Inputs into the Shoshone River in Wyoming to Determine Areas for Protection and Restoration Practices

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DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Water Resources
Shoshone River Water Resources (Fall 2022) Team: Robyn Holmes (Project Lead), Will Campbell, Cassie Ferrante, Nelson Lemnyuy Summary: In 2016, a routine repair operation at...
Land cover imagery processed from Landsat 8 OLI and ocean turbidity data imagery processed from Sentinel-2 MSI. The Tijuana River stormwater plume off the San Diego coast was mapped from data collected on December 5th, 2019, while the land surface data was collected on April 4th, 2022. Shades of red indicate high turbidity values, while blue areas show normal turbidity values. Areas of high turbidity reflect high concentration of pollutants from stormwater runoff.​

Monitoring Pollution Plumes due to Storm and Wastewater Runoff in the San Diego Bay and Tijuana River Estuary to Inform Water Quality Management

Topic
DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Water Resources
San Diego Water Resources (FALL 2022) Team: Ethan Gates (Project Lead), Stefanie Mendoza, Jonathan Szeto, Max VanArnam Summary: Stormwater and wastewater runoff are a large...
NDVI imagery derived from Landsat 8 OLI data. This imagery showing the California’s Carmel and Salinas Valleys within the surrounding Santa Lucia Mountain range was collected in the Spring of 2019 . Light green areas show the more developed, agriculturally intensive areas of the valley while the dark blue areas show the less developed hills. NDVI calculations were used in models of forest cover changes in the area over time.

Monitoring Land Cover Change to Understand Conservation Outcomes in Coastal California

Topic
Urban Development
DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Carmel Valley Urban Development (Fall 2022) Team: Cooper Campbell (Project Lead), Julia Portmann, Devina Garcia, Audrey Wilson Summary: Urban expansion in diverse ecosystems has numerous...
Annual max biomass calculated from 2021 daily Harmonized LandSat Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset. Dark purple colors show low biomass while the bright orange show high biomass. Regions with high vegetation and tree canopy cover are shown in orange on the left of the image. High biomass values are of an interest to rangeland managers to help inform their grazing decisions based on which areas of the ranch produce the most biomass/vegetation.

Rangeland Monitoring to Inform Grazing Management in Eastern Colorado

Topic
DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Agriculture
Eastern Plains Agriculture (Fall 2022) Team: Jillian Joubert, Sarah Hettema, Deni Ranguelova, TR Ingram, Max Stewart Summary: Adaptive management on cattle ranches requires rangeland managers...
NDWI-processed imagery from Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager data. This mosaicked image was taken from January to December 2021 of Jekyll Island, Georgia. NDWI contrasts the water features in a satellite image to its surroundings by measuring the moisture content. Low moisture content is shown in white, and high moisture content is shown in blue.

Evaluating the Impacts of Hurricane Irma on Georgia Heirs Property Owners Using Earth Observations

Topic
DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Disasters
Georgia Disasters (Fall 2022) Team: Isabella Chittumuri (Project Lead), Nancee Uniyal, Nathan Tesfayi, Shakirah Rogers Summary: In September 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in southern...

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