ESTO News

TEMPO, the Recently-Selected Earth Venture Instrument for Daytime Pollution Monitoring, Enabled by Key Early Technology Investments

Attending the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting? Get the list of ESTO-affiliated presentations (1.5MB, PDF)

Attending the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting?
Get the list of ESTO-affiliated presentations (1.5MB, PDF)

The 2012 ESTO Annual Report is now available to download (PDF)

Airborne Instrument Collects Aerosol Data While Aiding New NASA System

October 14-20 is Earth Science Week.

New Interferometer (GLISTIN-A) to Aid In Ice Topography Measurements

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission features several ESTO-funded technologies, including the HIWRAP and HAMSR instruments (link no longer available)./

High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL-2) instrument is participating in the Department of Energy's Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) airborne campaign.

ESTO-funded QuakeSim Project named co-winner of the 2012 NASA Software of the Year Award

The 2012 In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies (InVEST) solicitation is now open as element A.48 of the 2012 NASA ROSES omnibus research announcement Notices of intent are due 10/17/2012 and proposals are due by 11/27/2012.

Congratulations to the ESTO PIs who received 2012 NASA Agency Honor Awards

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ESTO-funded RTIMS memory module arrives safely on Mars onboard the Curiosity Rover, supports ChemCam instrument. + Read More
+ ESTO's 2009 feature on RTIMS

Improving Land Surface and Weather Predictions using Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Tools

Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES) Successfully Completes First Test Flights.

ESTO PI Temilola Fatoyinbo receives 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

ESTO PI, Rama Nemani, featured in KQED Public Radio story: "Satellites Helping Save Water on California Farms"

ESTO project making progress toward a Lidar instrument for O2 remote sensing.

Congratulations to the Univ. of Michigan team (led by former ESTO PI, Chris Ruf) for the selection of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) as a NASA Earth Venture mission.

UAVSAR Airborne Radar to Study Icelandic Ice Caps

Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM) makes its first airborne flight.

Next Generation AVIRIS Instrument Completes Successful First Flight.

Congratulations to Jacqueline Le Moigne, recipient of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's 12th annual Excellence in Information Science and Technology Award (link no longer available).

ESTO-funded project on climate model fusion featured in a press release from Ohio State University (link no longer available).

Attending IGARSS2012? Be sure to add these ESTO chaired sessions to your agenda: TH2.11, TH3.11 and WE1.13 (links no longer available).

Andrea Donnellan, the principal investigator on the QuakeSim project at JPL, was featured in an America Now video on earthquake preparedness.

The 2012 Earth Science Technology Forum has been cancelled. ESTO plans to renew this annual forum in June 2013.

Laser System on GRACE Follow-On to Measure Earth’s Gravity as Never Before.

The venue for the 2012 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2012)has moved to Baltimore, MD. The forum dates remain the same (June 26-28). Visit the forum website for more information.

Wondering what the future might hold for Earth science? Check out the recently-updated Earth Science Vision 2030 movie.

ESTO-Funded Doppler Wind Lidar Maps Potential Wind Farm Sites off Virginia Coast.

Awards announced for the 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation (element A.41 within the NASA 2011 ROSES omnibus research announcement).

A memorial service for Dr. Greg Leptoukh, a friend and an ESTO PI, will be held 3-5 pm on Thursday 2/9/12 at Goddard, Building 8. More about Greg and his legacy here (link no longer available).

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2012 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2012) – to be held June 26-28, 2012, in Orlando, FL. Visit the forum website for more information.

The Airborne Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (APR-2) – developed in the first IIP solicitation in 1998 – to participate in the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission’s Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) field campaign.

Attending the 2012 AMS Annual Meeting? Join us for the 12th Presidential Forum featuring George Komar, ESTO's Program Director, as well as for the ESTO-chaired sessions: TJ10 and TJ11.