Remote Sensing

In May of 2009, ice jams up to ten feet high crippled the small town of Eagle, Alaska. DEVELOP students at NASA Langley Research Center plan to improve forecasting techniques and the mitigation of these disasters using RadarSat and VIIRS.

When will the next earthquake occur in the Central US region? The year 2011 marked the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid Earthquakes, the largest earthquakes to have ever occurred in the United States (M8.1). In an effort to better understand earthquake hazards, the JPL team demonstrated to partners earthquake scenarios and mapped high areas of risk in the US's fifth most at-risk earthquake hazard region along the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

Can NASA EOS assist in forecasting of daily soil moisture, solar insolation, and temperatures in Nepal? DEVELOP interns at Marshall Space Flight Center used NASA Earth science models and measurements to assist with Nepalese food security forecasts and predict famine threat.

A look at how Microsoft captured data for its Global Ortho Project. There's an article, too. http://fox4kc.com/2012/09/03/how-online-maps-are-brought-to-life/

Microsoft recently completed their Global Ortho Project for US/Western Europe. This video highlights the Bing Maps massive Global Ortho Program that is redefining aerial map imagery.

DEVELOP is a NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Sciences training and development program. Students work on Earth science research projects, mentored by science advisors from NASA and partner agencies and extend research results to local communities. The projects demonstrate to community leaders how NASA science measurements and predictions can be utilized to address local policy issues. Directions Magazine will be featuring the work of the DEVELOP program to focus on the work by students who are completing projects in earth observation.

Idaho GIS specialists are going trough 600-800 feet of paper a day creating fire maps for the public and firefighters.

Every spring, precipitation and snowmelt in the central U.S. leads to high water levels in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, with concurrent flooding and levee damage a near-yearly event.This video provides details of a project that utilized high resolution radar (NASA UAVSAR), with a particular focus on LiDAR derived Digital Elevation Models to determine the accuracy and resolution with which flooding could be located by tracking the water extent along rivers and changes in the water extent between spring and normal levels in fall or early winter.

The ongoing battle in Aleppo between Assad regime troops and the Syrian Free Army has left civilians caught in the crossfire. Margaret Warner talks to Amnesty International's Scott Edwards and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Susan Wolfinbarger on how satellites are documenting human rights abuse in Syria.

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled surrounding forest, blasted away over a thousand feet of the mountain's summit, and claimed 57 human lives.