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
NASA (with NOAA and USGS) is leading a tri-agency assessment of Federal agency satellite Earth observation needs submitted through the 2022 SNWG survey. An important early step in the assessment process is meeting with each submitting agency to fully understand …
Significant Progress on Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) Agency Interviews Read More »
At this year’s AGU fall meeting, five members of the CSDA Program attended in-person or virtually to represent the program’s ongoing data team activities. This includes Aaron Kaulfus and Manil Maskey (ST11) co-chairing a session on the use of commercial …
Sujit Roy of the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) team within the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Science Team (IMPACT) submitted an abstract to the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2023 conference in Pasadena, CA. The abstract details a …
Multiple members of the MSFC Disasters Team attended and participated the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Chicago, Illinois during the week of December 12th. Team members presented to the scientific community of on-going projects here at MSFC, …
MSFC Disasters Team Attends the American Geophysical Union Meeting Read More »
“As we neared the top of the tower, the sun cracked the green horizon like a slice of orange, exquisitely lighting an undulating canopy surface. I imagined the world awash in forest green as it had been centuries ago, before …