Steve
Hipskind
Chief, Earth Science Division
NASA Ames Research Center
Applying NASA’s Global
Perspective to Societal Needs

NASA’s Observations of
the Earth from Space
NASA Operating Research Missions (15)
OSTM/Jason 2

Missions in Development 2008–2014
GOES-O
Earth Science
NPP GPM
OSTM Constellation
Glory
LDCM
GPM Core
Aquarius
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Next Steps

DMSP Operational Line Scanner
Venture Class
ISS Digital Photo

High Altitude Unmanned Aircraft
Global Hawk
Flexible, near global platform

Modeling Framework for Ecological Forecasting
Nemani et al., 2007, 2008

Anomaly
Current Data Historical Data Detection
Weekly Ecocasts:
California
California Wines
($30B Industry)
California’s
Central Valley

Global Agriculture
Satellite data show greening since the 1980s …but a flattening is evident since the mid-1990s
• Warmer temperatures
• Urban expansion and loss of farmland
• Over exploitation of groundwater

Applied Science & Technology Partnerships
WILDFIRES WRAP/SoCal Fires
Real-time
Monitoring of
Western States
Wildfires
Disaster Response
RESPONSE
DISASTER
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First Responders
SENTRI-LD
MONITORING
PIPELINE
Pipeline Rights-of-
Way Surveillance
and Leak Detection

Fighting Wildfires

NASA Silicon Valley
Partnerships
Platforms for local
observations
AirShip Ventures
Alpha Jet

capturing, collecting, analyzing and
reporting data on
environmental
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around the
world
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