Thomas Painter
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...
Jennifer Jacobs
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...
Brian Wardlow
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)...
Virginia Kalb
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...
Augusto Getirana
Maria Kavanaugh
More information: Ocean Observing System OL3
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...
James Verdin
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...
Austin Troy
This work, led by Austin Troy of the University of Colorado, Denver, uses Earth observation data and modeling to develop ecosystem accounts at the national and subnational scale for the U.S. End-users of this work include USGS and other Federal agencies who support the integration...
Niall Hanan
Luigi Boschetti
Since year 2000, satellite observations are the primary data source for monitoring fire activity globally. The NASA MODIS MCD64 Global Burned Product is sufficiently mature to support policy making (i.e., national and subnational fire activity reporting and carbon inventories) but at the time our project...