ESTO News

The 2011 ESTO Annual Report (8.9MB, PDF) is now available online.

Attending the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting? Get this list of ESTO-funded and ESTO-affiliated presentations (1MB, PDF) and be sure to stop by the ESTO-chaired session: IN42A, "Information Systems Technology to Advance Remote Sensing and Data
Productivity in the Next Decade."

The M-Cubed CubeSat, containing the Cubesat On-board processing Validation Experiment (COVE), was successfully launched this morning as an auxiliary payload of the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite. + More on COVE + More on the NPP launch

A request for information (RFI) seeking Future Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies has been released. Responses are due by 12/31/2011.

ESTO-funded Doppler Wind Lidar deployed to map potential wind farm sites off the Virginia coast.+ Read more on the Newport News Daily Press website (link no longer available).

The 2011 NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding will be held October 19-21 in Mountain View, CA

Emerging Lidar Technique Shows Promise for Simplified Wind Measurements

Awards announced for the 2010 ESTO Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program ROSES Solicitation

QuakeSim computer model provides estimate of permanent ground motions from the 8/23/11 magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia.

Soil Moisture Sensing Controller and Optimal Estimator (SoilSCAPE) project featured in Univ. of Michigan blog and video (link no longer available).

The 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation is now closed. Watch this space for announcement of awards.

Proposals to the 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation are due Friday, August 12.

Attending IGARSS 2011? Don't miss the ESTO-chaired session on Thursday, July 28: TH4.T10, Earth Observation Sensor Web (link no longer available).

The full proceedings from the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum (held June 21-23 in Pasadena, CA) are now online. Visit the Forum website for more information.

Online registration for the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum will close on Friday, June 10. Visit the forum website for more information.

An online Potential Bidders Conference (via WebEx) for the 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation has been scheduled for May 26. Watch this space for participation instructions.

The 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation was released on February 18, 2011, as element A.41 within the 2011 ROSES omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 6/17/2011 and proposals are due 8/12/2011.

A full schedule of events is now available online for the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2011) – to be held June 21-23 in Pasadena, CA. Visit the forum website for more information and to register.

A Featured paper in the 2/11/11 issue of Science includes examples from the ESTO-funded Multi-Sensor Data Synergy Advisor (MDSA) to illustrate importance of data and information provenance in data visualization tools.

HAMSR, an airborne radiometer developed with ESTO funding to measure temperature, humidity and cloud structure, is participating in a field campaign to measure atmospheric ‘rivers’ of water vapor across the Pacific Ocean (link no longer available).

Check out this video from Ball Aerospace (external link) on the ESTO-funded Electronically Steerable Flash Lidar (ESFL), a new instrument for improved vegetation measurements.

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2011) – to be held June 21-23 in Pasadena, CA. Visit the forum website for more information.

Nine ESTO investigators featured in the December 2010 "Earth Observation Sensor Web" special issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS)