Principal Investigator: Walter Jetz
Biodiversity and the many ecosystem functions and services it underpins are undergoing significant changes and needs worldwide scientifically rigorous information to monitor their status and trends. Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) capture key… Read More
Principal Investigator: Daniel Ames
Imagine being able to predict streamflow on every river and stream in the world for the next 15 days! With our global streamflow modelling and simulation product and web applications this is now possible. What can be done with these forecasts when they are combined with other… Read More
Principal Investigator: Natasha Sadoff and Amy Leibrand
This project aimed to strengthen connections between the Earth science community and electric utility data end users, as well as build capacity for domestic electric utility stakeholders to access and apply Earth observation (EO) information in resilience and renewable energy… Read More
Principal Investigator: Louis Giglio
For the past two decades, the primary source of global fire observations has been NASA’s Terra and Aqua polar-orbiting satellites, which carry the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), followed by the NASA-NOAA Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP)… Read More
Principal Investigator: Maria Kavanaugh
More information: Ocean Observing System OL3
The GEO-BON Thematic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (MBON) supports the operational… Read More
Principal Investigator: Howard Epstein
GEO BON aims to identify Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs), of which a category is Ecosystem Function. This effort developed a classification of Ecosystem Functional Types (EFTs), to characterize the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of ecosystem… Read More
Principal Investigator: Robert Field
Fire danger rating systems (FDRS) are cornerstones of wildland fire management, but fire danger data are not available in many fire-prone parts of the world. The NASA GISS Global Fire Weather Database (… Read More
Principal Investigator: Benjamin F. Zaitchik
This project connects Earth observation experts with epidemiologists and physicians associated with the Malnutrition and Enteric Disease Study (MAL-ED) study of childhood enteric infectious diseases. This objective is to develop a database of relevant climate… Read More
Principal Investigator: Venkat Lakshmi
Water resources in developing countries are under a constant state of stress. There are pressures of a growing population and diverse needs – agricultural, industrial, personal uses and power generation. This is coupled with degradation of water quality due… Read More
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… Read More
Principal Investigator: Virginia Kalb
Sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida made landfall in the southern US on August 29, 2021. More than 1 million people lost power. NASA's Black Marble HD helped evaluate the impact of Hurricane Ida on electric grids within the… Read More
Principal Investigator: John Malone
Visceral leishmaniasis (Lutzomyia longipalpis) and Aedes aegypti borne arboviruses (dengue, zika, chikungunya) have potential for epizootic spread from Latin America and the Caribbean and establishment in North America. This project aims to develop and… Read More
Principal Investigator: Sang-Ho Yun
The project developed a robust end-to-end automatic system to rapidly generate and deliver flood extent maps to responding agencies in 10 GEO member countries and to support the flood modeling community. This project support 35 disasters events with Flood Proxy Maps - users… Read More
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… Read More
Principal Investigator: Gretchen Daily
Biodiversity dynamics underpin the regulation and provisioning of many ecosystem services (ES), but ES models used commonly in decision-support tools do not adequately represent the relationships between different levels biodiversity (genes, species,… Read More
Principal Investigator: Victor Gutierrrez-Velez
Earth Observations data and products represent great potential for understanding, managing, and conserving biodiversity. The project developed a Decision Support System (DSS) for Biodiversity Conservation and… Read More
Principal Investigator: Robert Brakenridge
The project is developing and running a global, automated, flood forecasting, detection, measurement, mapping, and flood risk updating integrated system. This is being accomplished by merging and sequentially linking relevant remote sensing and model information sources. The… Read More
Principal Investigator: Enrique Montes
The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole of the Americas (MBON Pole to Pole) has fully established an international consortium of universities, independent research institutes and national agencies that seeks to support of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Societal… Read More
Principal Investigator: Pedro Jimenez Munoz
This project blended a satellite-based nowcasting system (Multi-sensor Advection Diffusion NowCAST (MADCast, Descombes et al. 2016; Xu et al. 2016) with a numerical weather prediction nowcasting approach (Weather Research Forecast model-Solar (WRF-Solar®,Jimenez et al. 2016) to… Read More
Principal Investigator: Jamon Van Den Hoek
The Mapping the Missing Millions project undertook a diverse collection of Earth observation (EO)-based assessments at refugee camps that collectively provide path-breaking insights into settlement dynamics, land cover change, and climate change effects at the world’s refugee… Read More