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NASA
Principal Investigator
Christa D Peters-Lidard
The main objective is to develop a seasonal water deficit forecasting system that is relevant for USAID and USACE activities in the Middle East and Africa based on existing NASA and NOAA Earth science capabilities. Our primary goals include: (1) supporting USAID’s Famine Early Warning...
Principal Investigator
Charon Birkett
The Global Reservoir and Lake Monitor (G-REALM) is a NASA/USDA funded operational program that delivers water level products for the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs. It utilizes both NASA and European Space Agency satellite data sets to monitor the seasonal and inter-annual fluctuations in the...
Principal Investigator
Natasha Sadoff and Amy Leibrand
This project aimed to strengthen connections between the Earth science community and electric utility data end users, as well as build capacity for domestic electric utility stakeholders to access and apply Earth observation (EO) information in resilience and renewable energy program planning. Over the course...
Principal Investigator
Chuanmin Hu
Floating mats of pelagic Sargassum macroalgae serve as an ecologically important habitat for many marine animals and therefore are regarded by the Sargasso Sea Commission as “the golden floating rainforest of the Atlantic Ocean.” On the other hand, excessive Sargassum beaching has become an increasing...
Principal Investigator
Andrew J Hansen
Human activities are increasingly fragmenting intact habitats and reducing connectivity among protected areas. Concern about loss of biodiversity led to an international agreement in 2010 to meet 20 specific biodiversity targets. Among these, Target 5 deals with fragmentation, Target 11 with connectivity, and Target 17...
Principal Investigator
Matthew Reiter
Freshwater ecosystems contribute disproportionately to global biodiversity and ecosystem services but are highly threatened by climate change, drought, and unsustainable water use. In arid, semi-arid, and Mediterranean regions, landscape-scale conservation requires protection, management, and enhancement of the connectivity of dynamic wetland habitats through surface water...
Principal Investigator
Enrique Montes
The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole of the Americas (MBON Pole to Pole) has fully established an international consortium of universities, independent research institutes and national agencies that seeks to support of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Societal Benefit Area of AmeriGEO through the...
Principal Investigator
Hyongki Lee
The fresh water resource in lower Mekong is confronted with challenges due to uncoordinated human activity in the upstream regions, such as extraction, diversion and dam impoundment of river waters. Due to the planned development, the dry season water level would rise, and the wet...
Principal Investigator
Franz Meyer
SAR-CBC is an AmeriGEO project that aims to build the capacity of Latin American partner institutions to apply Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to the following topics AmeriGEO societal benefit areas:
- Agricultural monitoring
- Disaster resilience
- Ecosystem sustainability
- Water resource management
What has been done:
- Aug...
Principal Investigator
John Malone
Visceral leishmaniasis (Lutzomyia longipalpis) and Aedes aegypti borne arboviruses (dengue, zika, chikungunya) have potential for epizootic spread from Latin America and the Caribbean and establishment in North America. This project aims to develop and implement a geospatial surveillance and response system data resource for vector-borne...