Jan 26, 2021
Can NASA satellites help monitor snowpack across the SW USA?
SnowEX researchers develop new methods to measure the snowpack with airborne observationsRead More
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Jan 26, 2021
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Aug 12, 2019
Landslide Activity Ramps Up With Extreme Rainfall
The August 'EOS Editor Highlights' describes studies using UAVSAR observations to understand landslides in CaliforniaRead More
Oct 1, 2018
Students Traverse Land, Air, and Water in Canada
One of NASA's projects is called the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), which is studying climate change in the northern parts of the world. People from the circumpolar regions haveRead More
Sep 26, 2018
Greenland and the Hunt for Better Climate Science
Flying over eastern Greenland, the NASA scientists stared down from a Gulfstream jet as it followed the precise course they had flown in previous years - using radar to map the loss of ice.Read More
Sep 19, 2018
What's Like at the Ground Zero of Climate Change
Reuters photographer Lucas Jackson discusses Greenland's large impact on climate, and interviews NASA scientists that are documenting glacier melt as part of the OMG mission.Read More
Jan 11, 2018
New Maps Show Fault Line At Site Of 2014 Napa Earthquake
The California Geological Survey released official maps of seismic hazard zones. UAVSAR-derived motion maps were central for seismologists identifying and confirming fault lines.Read More
Jun 8, 2017
Greenland's Thinning Ice
With temperatures around the world climbing, melt waters from the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are raising sea levels.Read More
Mar 9, 2016
AfriSAR in Gabon
Scientists blog about collecting tree structure and soil moisture measurements in Lope National Park, GabonRead More
Jan 23, 2016
Tecnologia de la NASA se usara en zonas protegidas
Ministerio de Cultura accede a imgaenes en alta definicion de area intangible de Nazca, gracias a un convenio internacionalRead More
Aug 24, 2015
Disaster Prevention in a Gulfstream
Earthquakes, volcanoes, mudslides: Airborne radar watches all the ways the earth moves.Read More
Jul 29, 2015
NASA Surveying Effort Tracks Gulf Coasts Changing Wetlands
UAVSAR is part of a multi-instrument mission that studies vegetation and hydrology in Louisiana's marshes.Read More
Jul 28, 2015
NASA launches mission to Greenland
The Ka-band instrument GLISTIN-A will be part of NASA's OMG (Oceans Melting Greenland) mission whose goal is to study Greenland's ice sheet.Read More
Feb 27, 2015
UAVSAR investigators featured on BBC article about sinkholes
JPL researchers Ronald Blom and Cathleen Jones talked to BBC about their work on mapping sinkholes in Louisiana with UAVSAR imagery.Read More
Feb 11, 2014
NASA completes radar study of Icelandic glacier winter movement
The cold of an Icelandic winter did not stop one NASA science aircraft from completing a mission to map glaciers in Iceland.Read More
Dec 19, 2013
Surprise: Louisiana Sinkhole Slid Sideways Before Collapsing
UAVSAR detected Louisiana sinkhole a month before it collapsed.Read More
Jul 3, 2013
JPL Partners with DWR to Scan Levees from the Sky
The California Council on Science and Technology wrote an article about Dr. Cathleen Jones's work using UAVSAR data to map Levees and Subsidence in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.Read More
May 29, 2013
Sizing Up Galeras
When studying volcanoes, detecting even the slightest movements of the land surface can tell a lot about what is happening below.Read More
Apr 30, 2013
NASA Radar Collects GLISTIN Ice and Glacier Data
Glaciers, sea ice and snow were the focus of a recent airborne Earth science study using NASA's UAVSAR.Read More
Apr 25, 2013
Penetrating Tree Cover to See the Forest Floor
Tropical forests and wetlands are some of the most compelling and important areas of study for Earth scientists and ecologists, but they are notoriously hard to penetrate on foot or from the air.Read More