NASA Applied Sciences

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...

This work seeks to improve existing meteorological, air quality and smoke forecasting systems by infusing them with NASA Earth System Science results. The projects proposed for satellite data enhancement are the MM5 numerical weather forecast system, the Air Indicator Report for Public Awareness and Community...

We propose a 3-year project enabling the use of NASA Earth-Sun System results in an existing air quality forecast decision support system (AQF-DSS). We will improve operational ozone and haze forecasts by assimilating retrieved tropospheric-NO2 from AURA/OMI and (recently upgraded) aerosol optical depth (AOD) from...