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UNOSAT Marash/Antep Earthquake Report Utilizes Black Marble Products

04/20/2023
the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) released a report on damage and recovery assessment in Türkiye and Syria after the Marash/Antep Earthquake. The report utilized NASA’s Black Marble products to create nighttime light-derived time-series, which enabled the identification of provinces and cities that were severely affected by the earthquake, as well as capturing the recovery patterns for each major city.

NASA HAQAST Annual Summary of Artificial Light At Night from VIIRS/S-NPP at CONUS County and Census Tract Version 1 Product Released to Public

04/18/2023
The Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) released the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) Annual Summary of Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) at CONUS County and Census Tract, Version 1 Product, from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite.

HAQAST Mission Pages Published

04/18/2023
Mission Pages for each of the current projects under the HAQAST program were published by the GES DISC. Links to the individual project Mission Pages are on the main HAQAST mission page

HAQAST Nitrogen Dioxide Surface-Level Annual Average Concentrations Data Released to Public

04/10/2023
The Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) announced the release of a global surface-level NO2 dataset, estimating concentrations in grid cells at a 1 km spatial resolution for the years 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005-2020. This dataset is from the Health & Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, HAQAST. Air quality, environmental science, and public health researchers may benefit from these global estimates, which are particularly useful for studying long-term trends in NO2 and the associated health impacts, and are also valuable for environmental justice, as this dataset enables an assessment of intraurban NO2 variations.

Terra, Aqua, and Aura Data Continuity Workshop Dates Announced and Questions and Answers Posted

04/03/2023
NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Aura Data Continuity Workshop will be held virtually on May 23-25, 2023. Sessions will run daily from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time/10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central Time/8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) has posted a questions and answers document on the Request for Information’s (RFI) Landing Page. When they become available following the close of the RFI, NSPIRES will post on the RFI’s landing page under “Other Documents” 1) a Workshop Agenda, 2) Registration link and 3) Webex Information. Agenda suggestions and additional questions or comments may be emailed to david.b.considine@nasa.gov; please include "NNH23ZDA010L" in the subject line. Request for Information: NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Aura Data Continuity Workshop Number: NNH23ZDA010L Release Date: March 1, 2023 Response Date: April 4, 2023 Short Direct URL to the RFI: https://go.nasa.gov/TAARFI4VCW
David Considine

Black Marble Ukraine Products Featured

03/30/2023
The New York Times published an article featuring analysis utilizing NASA's Black Marble products on the impact of the conflict in Ukraine. Titled "Ukraine Goes Dark: Images from Space Drive Home the Nation's Anguish," the article highlighted the significance of the satellite data and DNB sensor used in the analysis. The integration of satellite data with ground reporting provided a powerful and compelling narrative on the situation in Ukraine.

Pagán Honored on International Women's Day

03/08/2023
On International Women’s Day, Dr. Brianna Pagán (619/ADNET), Lead Development Engineer at the NASA GES DISC, was selected as one of “15 Women Shaping the Future of Earth Science” by the Radiant Earth Foundation.

Savtchenko and Hill-Beaton Publish GES DISC Article

03/03/2023
Andrey Savtchenko (619/ADNET) and Lauren Hill-Beaton (619/ADNET) published an article on the NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) website, “February/2023 Global Surface Air Temperatures and Precipitation: Monthly Assessment of Anomalies and Extremes in Global Surface Air Temperatures and Precipitation.” The news article shows anomalies and extremes for these data variables around the world with data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Surface Temperature and Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) precipitation data.

Black Marble Products in Washington Post Ukraine Feature

03/01/2023
Analysis by Ranjay Shrestha (619/SSAI) using NASA's Black Marble products was featured in The Washington Post interactive article “When Ukraine Goes Dark.” The article highlights how communities adapt to living in darkness and shows the day-to-day toll of war in the country away from the front line. The nighttime light image analysis was for three major Ukranian cities – Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro.

Black Marble Featured On BBC: Conflict in Ethiopia

10/20/2022
The Black Marble team contributed images to the BBC to track power outages in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The ongoing conflict in this region has resulted in severe suffering for the civilian population, who, on top of the direct casualties of war, have endured lack of food, a collapse in banking and communication systems, and destruction of infrastructure necessary to meet basic human needs. To illustrate lack of access to electricity, our team created a Black Marble High Definition time-lapse video showing lights over Mikelle, Tigray,—one of the main urban areas—for each month since the conflict started in November 2020. The video highlights the persistent loss of power for Mikelle’s residents and on-going load shedding as a management strategy. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63315388

FIRMS Adds New Near Real-Time Landsat Product for the US, Canada, and Mexico

10/11/2022
NASA LANCE’s Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) added near real-time Landsat Fire and Thermal Anomalies (LFTA) product for the continental U.S., the southern half of Canada, and the northern half of Mexico. This provides 30-meter active fire detection data within 30–60 minutes of observation. The LFTA product is based on multispectral imagery acquired by the Operational Land Imagers (OLI) aboard the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites. The OLI’s 30-meter resolution provides active fire detection data with 1,000 and 160 times finer spatial resolution than MODIS and VIIRS, respectively, and its enhanced capabilities allow it to detect active fires as small as approximately four-square meters during the day. For more information see: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/firms-lfta-data

New CEOS-ARD Product Family Specifications

10/10/2022
The new Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Analysis-Ready Data (ARD) Product Family Specification (PFS): Nighttime Light Surface Radiance has been endorsed and is now available on the CEOS-ARD Website. This effort was coordinated by Brian Killough (LARC-D2) with technical contributions from Zhuosen Wang (619/UMD), Bhaskar Ramachandran (619/SSAI), and Miguel Román (619/Leidos). NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights product suite is a prime example that both serves and meets the requirements of this ARD specification.

Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory hosts SED Director's Seminar

09/30/2022
Join the Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory on October 7, 2022 at 12:00 pm EDT, hosted by NASA’s Earth Science Division's Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory.
  • Jenny Hewson (619/SSAI), Otmar Olsina (619/GST) – "Leveraging NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) for Active Fire Mapping in the U.S. and Canada"
  • Alexis Hunzingerr (619/ADNET) – "Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) User Engagement for Cloud Services"
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Request for Information: NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Aura Drifting Orbits Workshop

09/08/2022
The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Request for Information (RFI) via NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) seeks input from the science community that will be considered in the development and implementation of a Terra, Aqua, and Aura (T, A &A) Drifting Orbits workshop planned for later this calendar year. NASA Headquarters Earth Science Division (ESD) requests input from the science community addressing 1) science that is uniquely enabled by observations during the period of orbital drift and 2) the benefits to and impact on current societal applications.

The RFI seeks information for planning purposes only. NASA does not intend to award a contract or assistance, i.e., grant or cooperative agreement, funding at this time. As stipulated in FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.

The most recent Senior Review for NASA’s Earth science operating missions (available at: https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/missions/operating) discussed the aging Terra, Aqua, and Aura spacecrafts and recommended further study of science possibilities near their lives’ end. All three satellites currently have sufficient remaining propellant to continue operations for a few more years, but the amount of propellant is insufficient in each case to maintain the platforms in controlled equatorial Mean Local Time (MLT) polar orbits. This orbital drift suggests that, for many purposes, the future observations will have reduced scientific and application value compared to data from fixed MLT orbits.

RFI responses should address the potential for new, unique science made possible with the observations provided by the orbital drift of the platforms. All responses to this RFI must be submitted in an electronic format only via NSPIRES, the official NASA source for the full text of the RFI. In the event of a lapse in NASA operations, please visit http://nspires.nasaprs.com/.

Please email questions and comments concerning this RFI to the point of contact’s email address and use in the subject line: “NASA’s T, A & A Drifting Orbits Workshop RFI Question/Clarification.”

Depending on the nature of the question(s), NASA may respond on an individual basis by email or may post questions and answers (Q&A) of broad interest or general clarification on the RFI’s NSPIRES landing page. Posted Q&As will be edited to preserve the submitter’s anonymity. The following email address is not to be used for RFI response submissions; any RFI submissions made via email will not be considered.

Note: Please visit NSPIRES and carefully review the RFI’s full text and any Q&As before emailing.

Number: NNH22ZDA018L Release Date: September 08, 2022 Response Date: October 11, 2022 Short Direct URL:https://go.nasa.gov/NH22ZDA018L
Lucia Tsaoussi

The Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory and Global Change Data Center Merge to Form New NASA Office

09/01/2022
In August 2022, the Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory and the Global Change Data Center merged to form a new office in the Earth Science division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. While the new office maintains the name, “Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory,” the merger presents more opportunities to collaborate, supporting Earth science research and innovation across different science disciplines (atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere science).

The new office produces, archives, and distributes important atmospheric data products from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and is home to three data centers, the Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) and the Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC). These data centers are three of twelve NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) data centers that provide Earth science data, information, and services to research scientists, applications scientists, applications users, and students. LAADS DAAC and GES DISC primarily provide atmospheric data, with LAADS DAAC providing data focused on clouds and aerosols, while GES DISC primarily distributing atmospheric composition, precipitation, and climate variability data. The Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC) processes ocean biology data from the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Visible Infrared Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS), and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM). Additionally, the new office also supports the Precipitation Processing System (PPS) which processes satellite radar data to measure precipitation globally.

The new office oversees programs including the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), MODIS Adaptive Processing System (MODAPS), Ozone Monitoring Instrument Data Processing System (OMIDAPS), and the Land, Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). These programs provide essential data for monitoring natural hazards around the world, helping people prepare and respond to natural hazards, like fires, floods, and food security, using satellite data to aid in decision making.

NASA GLOBE Land Cover Challenge 2022: Land Cover in a Changing Climate

07/26/2022
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program invites you to take part in our upcoming Land Cover Challenge: “Land Cover in a Changing Climate.”

The photos you take using The GLOBE Program’s GLOBE Observer app document the current land cover and may also show evidence of land cover or land use change in the area. We especially encourage you to look for places you know have changed (or where you know change is coming), and put any information about the reasons or timing for that change in the field notes section. While existing land cover databases (such as the 50-year record from the Landsat satellite) may be able to indicate where change is happening, they don’t always include the reasons why those changes occurred, so any local, on-the-ground knowledge you share with us can be especially helpful.

New Combined Aqua and Terra MODIS Cloud Properties Product

06/24/2022
NASA's Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System Distributed Active Archive Center (LAADS DAAC) released a new Combined Aqua and Terra MODIS Cloud Properties product that was produced by the Atmosphere Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the University of Wisconsin. The LAADS DAAC including Bhaskar Ramachandran (619/SSAI), Asad Ullah (619/SSAI), and its web development team including Jose Galdamez (619/GST) and Greg Ederer (619/GST) helped release these products with support from the MODIS Atmosphere Science Team. This product is part of the combined Aqua and Terra MODIS Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project Observation Simulator (COSP) Package v6.2.

2021 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers

12/10/2021
Several 610 researchers were named to the annual list identifying scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% of citations for their field and year of publication. Congratulations to Matthew Rodell (610), Ben Cook (611), Alex Ruane (611), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Joanna Joiner (614), Douglas Morton (618), Benjamin Poulter (618), and Eric Vermote (619) for being named to this year's list.

FIRMS Leads Agency Website Traffic

08/06/2021
NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), led by Diane Davies (619/SSAI), was the most visited NASA website July 29–30, 2021. FIRMS which is part of NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE), and managed by LANCE MODIS/MODAPS, is being used to track wildfires and smoke across the US and Canada. In January, NASA and the U.S. Forest Service launched a new instance of FIRMS, specifically for the US and Canada. This new system, FIRMS US/Canada expands the existing active fire mapping capabilities with additional map layers ownership boundaries, fire danger ratings and incident reports. The FIRMS US/Canada also appeared in the top 10 most viewed NASA websites. Key team members include Otmar Olsina (619/GST) and Greg Ederer (619/GST), as well as Karen Michael (586) who leads the LANCE activity that FIRMS is part of.

Black Marble Products Illuminate Texas Power Outages

02/22/2021
The NASA Black Marble Products were utilized to monitor the impact of the recent winter storm in Texas. It was reported that 4 million customers across the state were without power, including 1.4 million in the Houston area. The nighttime light images produced by the Black Marble team, using the standard and high-definition Black Marble products, helped identify these widespread power outages within the neighborhood scale in the Houston area. These results were highlighted by the NASA Earth Observatory and NASA Earth, in addition to being covered by numerous news media outlets including The Washington Post.

FIRMS US/Canada Launched

02/05/2021
NASA and the US Forest Service launched a new active fire mapping application. Code 619 developers of the NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), have partnered with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service to create “FIRMS US/Canada"; a new service that delivers web-based active fire mapping tools and capabilities for disseminating data, products, and services for the U.S. and Canada.

Pahlevan Interviewd by la Republica

01/03/2021
Nima Pahlevan (619/SSAI) was interviewed by la Republica, a major Italian newspaper. The interview focused on the utility of satellite data in identifying changes in surface water quality conditions induced by 2020's COVID-19 lockdown. Pahlevan discussed Goddard’s contribution to the tri-agency’s COVID-19 Dashboard and how changes in water quality conditions could be discerned from space via Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data. The news article titled “The lockdown seen from the satellite, from Venice to New York: thus nature has recovered its spaces” was published on January 3, 2021.

Pahlevan Discussed Covid-19 Impacts on Environment with NPR

12/17/2020
Nima Pahlevan (619/SSAI) participated in an American Geophysical Union (AGU) press conference and panel discussion titled “Impacts of Covid-19 on People and the Environment, as Seen From Space." National Public Radio's Morning Edition interviewed Pahlevan about this research.

2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers

11/19/2020
Several 610 researchers were named to the annual list identifying scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% of citations for their field and year of publication. Congratulations to Matthew Rodell (610), Gregory Faluvegi (611/CU), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Joanna Joiner (614), Jeffrey Masek (618), Douglas Morton (618), Benjamin Poulter (618), and Eric Vermote (619) for being named to this year's list.

Vermote Named Highly Cited Researcher

11/18/2020
Congratulations to Eric Vermote for being named to the 2020 Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List. Recipients are recognized for their exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

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