Tick-borne diseases are a public health issue in southern Maine, and recent estimates completed by the State of Maine suggest that as little as 1 in 10 cases of Lyme disease are actually reported. There are three tick-borne… Read More
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Tick-borne diseases are a public health issue in southern Maine, and recent estimates completed by the State of Maine suggest that as little as 1 in 10 cases of Lyme disease are actually reported. There are three tick-borne… Read More
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
Team: Dr. Jacelyn Rice Boayue (North Caroline State University), Dr. Laurie Garo (Lifting Inspirations), graduate… Read More
Machine Learning (ML… Read More
the Monongahela National Forest (MNF), situated in the Allegheny Highlands of West Virginia, extensive logging and mining practices have significantly altered the structure and composition of flora and fauna over the past two… Read More
Team: Bill Curtiss (Project Lead), Aliza White, Sam Majumder, Rhea Martinez
Summary: Disturbances and landcover change in pinyon-juniper and sagebrush ecosystems are… Read More
This proposal seeks to continue an effort that exploits the combination of two key data sets, the Landsat historical record and plot records from the US Forest Service (USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, for the purpose of developing a quantitative understanding of… Read More
Gold mining is a central component of Ghana’s economy. An increased amount of illegal artisanal mining in recent years has led to accelerated deforestation, destruction of protected areas, and human health issues due to Mercury used during the mining process. This project… Read More
Local companies and scientists in Benin are increasing their use of earth science information to manage forests and water resources. The invasive water hyacinth plant grows aggressively in Benin and many countries in Africa, harming local activities in fishing, transportation and… Read More
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
The premise of the proposed project is that health hazard mitigation planning and public health disaster response can be improved by including environmental exposure characterization, through the application of Earth Observations (EO) and synthetic… Read More
The expansion of the global population in conjunction with rapid industrialization has caused an increase in artificial light pollution, also known as artificial sky glow. Anthropogenic light pollution disturbs the world's… Read More
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… Read More
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
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… Read More
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