ESTO News

3D-CHESS will allow sensors to coordinate with each other more effectively and operate with greater autonomy, uniting disparate instruments within a single, dynamic sensor web.

A new Observational System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) will help researchers design science missions dedicated to monitoring terrestrial freshwater storage.

  Two ESTO InVEST demonstration projects – the Hyperspectral Thermal Imager (HyTI) and the Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation (SNOOPI) – were launched on March 21 onboard NASA's SpaceX 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station, where they will await deployment in coming months.

A new collection of open-source software will help researchers merge stereo images with lidar data, making it easier to observe rapidly changing topographical features such as melting ice sheets and glaciers.

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2024 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2024), June 11-12 in Crystal City, VA

Attending the 2024 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (Jan 28 - Feb 1, Baltimore MD)? Take along this schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities.

The Metalens Origami Deployable Lidar Telescope (MODeL-T), an ESTO ACT-22 project at GSFC, was featured in a 7-minute Tech for Good CNN segment in early December. The MODeL-T project is developing a ~1.6 m collection aperture to enable smaller, lighter and less expensive implementation of space-based lidar while improving measurement performance. Watch the video here.