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Principal Investigator
Wilfrid Schroeder
Satellite active fire data have been produced routinely for over two decades. Fire detection products are currently derived from both polar and geostationary systems with spatial resolutions normally ranging from 1-4km, and temporal resolution ranging from 15min to 12h. Due to the spectral characteristics of...
Principal Investigator
Christopher Hain
During the Stage I Feasibility period, we propose to develop a multi-scale drought monitoring tool for North America based on remotely sensed estimates of evapotranspiration. The Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) represents anomalies in the ratio of actual-to-potential ET (fPET), generated with the thermal remote sensing...
Principal Investigator
Jun Wang
Among all the VIIRS EDRs, most relevant to the air quality and public health applications are the Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) and Atmospheric Suspended Matter (ASM) EDRs. The accuracy in deriving surface Particulate Matter (PM) concentration and particle size parameter is intrinsically amenable to the...
Principal Investigator
Chris Justice
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is currently operates the only agricultural monitoring system that is global, providing critical information on global crop production in the context of global markets and food security. Since the 1970’s, NASA and the USDA have been working together to...
Principal Investigator
Chris Justice
With a billion people suffering from hunger, an ever-growing global population and increasing market volatility, the question of food security is getting increased attention. Following the ¿Global Food Crisis¿ in 2008, the Summit on Food Security called for improved international cooperation, improved access to knowledge...
Principal Investigator
Xu Liang
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has the primary responsibility for traffic and roadway management for the states entire roadway system. Severe weather-related roadway conditions such as flash floods, snow storms, and icy roads can cause dramatic hydrologic disasters. To protect life and property and...
Principal Investigator
Nickolay Krotkov
Volcanic eruptions can inject significant amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and particulate matter (ash) into the atmosphere, posing a substantial risk to aviation safety. Ingesting near-real time (NRT) satellite volcanic cloud data is vital for improving reliability of volcanic ash forecasts and mitigating effects of...
Principal Investigator
Chris Justice
The GEO acknowledges sustainable agriculture as one of the critical societal benefit areas (SBA) for international cooperation and collaboration. The agriculture SBA calls for an operational system for monitoring global agriculture that includes the following three main functional components: • Global mapping and monitoring of...
Principal Investigator
Eurico DSa
Coastal regions in the northern Gulf of Mexico such as the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas coast are under the NASA measurements) will be integrated into the DST to provide 3-D ocean currents, temperature, salinity and sea level variations at 20 levels and a resolution of...
Principal Investigator
John Mars
Hydrothermal alteration which produces argillic and phyllic minerals has been shown to weaken volcanic edifices and increase the potential for debris flows (Crandell, 1971; Scott and others, 1995). We propose to use Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data, and the ASTER Global...