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A Slow-Moving California Landslide Suddenly Speeds Up Feb 19, 2025

A Slow-Moving California Landslide Suddenly Speeds Up

 A new map shows where land movement is accelerating, buckling roads and collapsing homes.

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NASA ready for takeoff in Yellowknife Aug 16, 2024

NASA ready for takeoff in Yellowknife

 The ABoVE project maps the landscape in the Northwest Territories to see the changes year-to-year such as melting permafrost and regrowth after wildfire.

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Can NASA satellites help monitor snowpack across the SW USA? Jan 26, 2021

Can NASA satellites help monitor snowpack across the SW USA?

 SnowEX researchers develop new methods to measure the snowpack with airborne observations

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Landslide Activity Ramps Up With Extreme Rainfall Aug 12, 2019

Landslide Activity Ramps Up With Extreme Rainfall

 The August 'EOS Editor Highlights' describes studies using UAVSAR observations to understand landslides in California

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Students Traverse Land, Air, and Water in Canada 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 have

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Greenland and the Hunt for Better Climate Science 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.

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What's Like at the Ground Zero of Climate Change 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.

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New Maps Show Fault Line At Site Of 2014 Napa Earthquake 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.

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Greenland's Thinning Ice 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.

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AfriSAR in Gabon Mar 9, 2016

AfriSAR in Gabon

 Scientists blog about collecting tree structure and soil moisture measurements in Lope National Park, Gabon

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Tecnologia de la NASA se usara en zonas protegidas 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 internacional

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Disaster Prevention in a Gulfstream Aug 24, 2015

Disaster Prevention in a Gulfstream

 Earthquakes, volcanoes, mudslides: Airborne radar watches all the ways the earth moves.

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NASA Surveying Effort Tracks Gulf Coasts Changing Wetlands 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.

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NASA launches mission to Greenland 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.

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UAVSAR investigators featured on BBC article about sinkholes 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.

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NASA completes radar study of Icelandic glacier winter movement 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.

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Surprise: Louisiana Sinkhole Slid Sideways Before Collapsing Dec 19, 2013

Surprise: Louisiana Sinkhole Slid Sideways Before Collapsing

 UAVSAR detected Louisiana sinkhole a month before it collapsed.

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JPL Partners with DWR to Scan Levees from the Sky 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.

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Sizing Up Galeras 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.

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NASA Radar Collects GLISTIN Ice and Glacier Data 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.

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Penetrating Tree Cover to See the Forest Floor 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.

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