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Upcoming Webinar: Applications and Opportunities of NASA's Upcoming NISAR Mission

by ORNL - mthornton » Wed Dec 21, 2022 6:44 pm America/New_York

The Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership (AEOIP) is pleased to announce its next webinar of the 2022-2023 series to highlight available Earth Observation missions and data, demonstrate the utility of Earth Observation data to address land management needs, and share successful applications of Earth observations into operational land management decision-making.
  • Webinar Registration: Applications and Opportunities of NASA's Upcoming NISAR Mission
    • Learn about the NISAR mission and its plans to support sustained and event-driven observations for hazard assessment.
      Wednesday, January 11, 2023 from 12:00-1:00pm EST
    The NISAR mission, the result of a collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will provide free and open data covering nearly all Earth’s land surfaces and many ocean and sea ice areas with 12-day orbit repeat interval. The NISAR satellite is currently on schedule to launch in January 2024 and will carry both L- and S-band instruments, with the L-band instrument providing the near-global land coverage and the S-band acquisitions concentrated in southern Asia and the polar regions. The wide-ranging applicability of the data that NISAR will provide, covering geological hazards, ecosystems applications, studies of the cryosphere, and a wide range of related science and applications, has the potential to make this mission's data a high-value resource for many operational agencies and organizations.

    Since early in the mission development, the NISAR mission management has been actively advancing applications by working with different end-user communities to identify and implement actions that increase the utility of NISAR for their purposes. Since 2017, the NISAR Applications team has been holding focus-area workshops with different end-user communities to inform them of the benefits and uses of NISAR data, and now as the launch nears, the emphasis is shifting towards establishing a group of early adopters who prepare to use the data as soon as it becomes available. In this talk, Dr. Jones will provide an overview of the mission's goals, instruments, observation plans, and community engagement activities. The mission system will be capable of accepting and implementing requests for rapid processing to support disaster response, and in this context, she will discuss the mission team's plans to support both sustained and event-driven observations for hazard assessment.

    Guest Speaker: Cathleen E. Jones, Ph.D.
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

    Cathleen Jones is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Her research is focused on using radar to identify, monitor, and study natural and man-made hazards, and includes development of methods for tracking and characterizing oil slicks, measuring subsidence in deltas, and monitoring levees, dams, and aqueducts. She is the Science Team Applications Lead for NASA’s upcoming NISAR mission, which will image nearly all the Earth’s land surface every 12 days, providing the data to the public free of charge.

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