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...
Principal Investigator

Ronald Eguchi

This proposal addresses the Applied Sciences Program goal of integrating Earth science data and information for disaster forecasting, mitigation and response; specifically by delivering EO-derived built environment data and information for use in catastrophe (CAT) models and loss estimation tools. CAT models and loss estimation...
Principal Investigator

Yang Liu

Environmental epidemiological studies have linked exposure to ambient PM2.5 (airborne particles less than 2.5 micrometers in size) with adverse health effects such as reduced lung function, increased asthma incidence and heart attacks. Characterizing population exposures to PM2.5, therefore, has emerged as a major environmental health...
Principal Investigator

Y. Tony Song

Early tsunami warning critically hinges on rapid analysis of the triggering earthquake, but unfortunately, even precise knowledge of the earthquakes location and magnitude is not enough to predict a tsunamis power (scale) that is needed for effective early warnings. Recently, we have demonstrated the use...
Principal Investigator

Y. Tony Song

Early tsunami warning critically hinges on rapid analysis of the triggering earthquake, but unfortunately, even precise knowledge of the earthquake¿s location and magnitude is not enough to predict a tsunami¿s power (scale) that is needed for effective early warnings. Recently, we have proposed directly using...
Principal Investigator

Sean Healey

The U.S. Forest Service National Forest System (NFS) manages approximately one fifth of the country’s forestlands. NFS has been directed to more closely monitor the influence of forest management on forest carbon sequestration so that greenhouse gas mitigation may be incorporated into the forest planning...