Earth Science Branch
The Earth Science Branch conducts research of the Earth as a system with a focus on lightning and precipitation processes, weather and climate variability, monitoring fluxes of heat and water from the surface, and associated data management and mining activities for scientific discovery and applications for societal benefit.
Earth Science Branch Projects
On 5/13/22, the new Earth Observing (EO) Dashboard was released as an expansion of the COVID-19 Dashboard collaboration with NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Dashboard offers curated datasets and stories for several focus …
Thomas Moore, a member of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia, recently published a study addressing the benefits and challenges involved in including indigenous peoples as partners in the geospatial services offered in their region. This …
A research article entitled “Integrating Gender Into Data Services: A Flexible, Multidisciplinary and Reflexive Approach” was recently published in Frontiers in Climate by Lalu Maya Kadel, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale, and Kamala Gurung of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development …
On 6/6/22, Vanesa Martin, Jacob Ramthun, and Kaitlin Walker of the University of Alabama in Huntsville traveled to Puerto Breu, Peru, to support Stephanie Spera’s Applied Sciences Team (AST) workshop, “Ecosystem Services and Socio-Environmental Dynamics Workshop in Indigenous Landscapes of …
In support of the NASA/USFS jointly managed Fire Information Resource and Management System (FIRMS), the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 team serves a dynamic tiling layer to better enable the detection of active fire fronts and burn scars for FIRMS users. Integration …