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Principal Investigator
John D Bolten
Challenge: Improve USDA Foreign Agricultural Service commodity crop forecasts by integrating NASA soil moisture remote sensing products and land surface modeling/assimilation tools into the operational USDA FAS global water balance modeling system. Soil moisture provides an early indication of vegetation change.
Need: The USDA FAS...
Principal Investigator
Mary Blair
Effective policy responses to changes in biodiversity are only possible with adaptable analytic tools that leverage the influx of data from biodiversity observation systems. The analytic tools must be streamlined and readily mastered by researchers making scientific recommendations. This projected created two new software packages...
Principal Investigator
Karyn Tabor
Indigenous peoples and local communities are key stakeholders for achieving sustainable land management and addressing global challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. Traditional Indigenous groups represent about 370 million people globally and indigenous lands cover ~28% of Earth’s terrestrial surface and include 40% of...
Principal Investigator
Matthew Oliver
Proposals that respond to section 3.1.1 (Remote Sensing as a Catalyst for Large-scale Conservation) should link natural seascapes to large-scale conservation using satellite imagery to enable conservation planning with end-user organizations. End users should have enhanced tools for decision making, management strategies and seascape management...
Principal Investigator
Christopher Hain
The goal of the Development of a Multi-Scale Remote-Sensing Based Framework for Mapping Drought over North America project is to develop a drought monitoring tool for North America based on remotely sensed estimates of evapotranspiration (ESI; Evaporative Stress Index). The ESI represents anomalies in the...
Principal Investigator
Pierre Guillevic
Project description: The goal of this project is to develop an integrated modeling platform using Earth observations to simulate large-scale hydrological processes and food production in support of water use decisions and agricultural policy. The approach is based on the use of field and Earth...
Integrating GRACE and GRACE Follow On Data into Flood and Drought Forecasts for the Continental U.S.
Principal Investigator
Matthew Rodell
The goal of this project is expand our suite of weekly drought/wetness indicators to include 1-3 month forecasts for the continental U.S., which will then be utilized by our partners at the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), the NOAA North Central River Forecast Center (NCRFC)...
Principal Investigator
Christine Lee
Water quality is a critical element of freshwater supply, particularly in times and areas of drought, in part due to less dilution of point contaminant sources. Limited water resources can be further strained if water quality is not managed properly.While there are measures in place...
Principal Investigator
Faisal Hossain
Objectives of this project are to achieve operational sustainability (> Application Readiness Level 7) for government water management agencies in South Asia (Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh) for the following:
1) Satellite (GPM/TRMM) Precipitation and Model-based seasonal forecasting of water availability (for all nations of...
Principal Investigator
Gregory Okin
This is a four-year Applications Project in response to the ROSES 2016 Ecological Monitoring RFP. Specifically, this proposal addresses topic: Remote Sensing as a Catalyst for Large-scale Conservation. The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have partnered with...