NASA Applied Sciences

Agriculture is a critical sector of the US economy. Weather events such as hail, high winds, tornados, and flash floods can destroy an entire harvest in a short period of time. Weather conditions, such as long dry spells, long wet spells, and unseasonal temperature variation...

Anthropogenic changes in land use and land cover pose one of the foremost threats to resources in U.S. National Parks. To track in ecological condition, the US National Park Service has initiated a decision support system within the new NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program (NPS...

The North Olympic Peninsula (NOP) Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D) proposes toSolutions Network because local citizens pioneered one of the states most cooperative, effective and integrated water, ecosystem and agricultural management teams. The performance of this local Solutions Network will be optimized and a...

This proposal describes work that will combine existing USDA and NASA modeling systems to allow critical biological models of invasive species and their control to be assessed and improved for long-term sustainable ecosystem management. It addresses not only biotic factors such as plant phenology and...

Our Integrated System Solutions proposal for Public Health Applications describes the incorporation of NASA models and remote sensing data into a risk assessment model that coalesces environmental, mosquito abundance, and encephalitis virus measurements from the California Mosquito-borne Virus Surveillance and Response Plan (CMVSRP) and the...

Global flood model products will be developed, tested and implemented to produce a real-time system running routinely at the NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) at the University of Maryland. This will allow for continued use and evaluation by a wide array of...

The BlueSky Science Team will employ NASA Earth Science results to reduce key uncertainties affecting models of air pollutant emissions and transport from biomass burning. Previous work has identified the largest smoke modeling sensitivities as (1) errors in consumption rates due to incorrect or inappropriate...

Designation of US Department of Interior Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) emphasizes the important threat that climate and land use change pose to biological resources in national parks and other federal lands. Developing strategies for management and adaptation in the coming century requires improvements in our...

Monitoring of regional evapotranspiration allows decision makers (i) to follow where, when, and how much water has moved into the atmosphere by evapotranspiration; (ii) to monitor crop performance and the effects of droughts for famine prediction; (iii) to better evaluate the performance of irrigation systems...

The wildland fire management agencies employ three disparate Decision Support Systems: pre-fire, active-fire, and post-fire DSSs. We propose to improve the nation's response to and management of wildland fires by integrating the three DSS's, using NASA research results (data and models) combined with NASA IT...