ESTO News

ESTO-investigator Yehuda Bock and his natural hazard sensor web project featured in a JPL news article: "NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems"

The 2013 Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) solicitation is now open as element A.41 of the NASA ROSES omnibus solicitation. NOIs are requested by 2/7/2014, and proposals are due 4/2/2014.

Two CubeSat Technology Demonstrations Launch in December

Land Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) featured on the American Geophysical Union blog.

ESTO and Earthzine are pleased to announce the 2013 Earth Science Technology Showcase (link no longer available), an online presentation of selected technology developments for Earth science. + Check out Earthzine's conversation with George Komar, the ESTO Program Director

Attending the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting? Get the schedule of ESTO-affiliated presentations (1MB, PDF)

Two Space Dynamics Lab temperature reference instruments, launched 11/25 on the Russian Progress 53, are bound for ISS for space testing and validation.

The 2013 ESTO Annual Report is now available
+ Get the PDF

Congratulations to PI Tom Flatley on being named "Innovator of the Year" by NASA Goddard. Read more about his work developing SpaceCube data processors (link no longer available).

VIDEO: ESTO investigator Bryan Blair talks about his LVIS instrument, which will measure ice in Greenland with Operation IceBridge

New Climate-studying Imager Makes First Balloon Flight

Two ESTO PIs – Chris Mattmann and Andrea Donnellan – featured in a 10/17 NASA news story on the 'Big Data' initiative at JPL

Deployable mast design chosen for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission

ESTO principal investigator, Simone Tanelli, featured in a Climate Desk video report (link no longer available) about the NASA SEAC4RS airborne campaign.

ESTO-funded GEO-TASO instrument joins NASA's DISCOVER-AQ airborne campaign to study air quality over Texas.

The AirSWOT instrument had its first flights earlier this year on board NASA's King Air aircraft.

HIWRAP instrument featured for upcoming flights with HS3:
Seeing Which Way the Wind Blows: New Doppler Radar Takes Flight on This Summer's HS3 Mission

This NASA news story features PI Matthew McGill and his Cloud-Aerosol Transport System(CATS) instrument, scheduled to go to the International Space Station in 2014.

The Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GEO-TASO) instrument had its first flights this week onboard the NASA Falcon aircraft. +Read More

Read the feature artice on ESTO ("ESTO: Benefiting Earth Science through Technology") in the May/June 2013 Issue of The Earth Observer

The 2013 campaign of the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission will feature a second Global Hawk packed with ESTO technologies. + ESTO technologies Enabling HS3

Now available: Questions and Answers from the May 15th preproposal bidder’s conference for the 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) solicitation

Recent ESTO InVEST award featured in NASA.gov story: Team Wins Cubesat Berth to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements

The preproposal bidder's conference for the 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) solicitation will be held on 5/15/2013, at 1:00 PM eastern time.  + 5/15 UPDATE: Bidders' Conference Presentation (PDF) (link no longer available)

Awards announced for the 2012 In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies (InVEST) solicitation (element A.48 of the 2012 NASA ROSES omnibus research announcement)

PI Robert Green and the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument featured in a NASA story on the HyspIRI airborne campaign

Extreme Storm and Flooding Forecasts Improved by Sensor Network

The 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) solicitation is now open as element A.40 of the 2013 NASA Research Announcement Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) omnibus announcement. A pre-proposal bidder’s conference will be held on May 15, 2013, at 1:00 PM eastern time. Visit the IIP 2013 solicitation notice for more. Notices of Intent are requested by May 31, 2013, and proposals are due July 15, 2013.

PI Stanley Sander and the PanFTS instrument featured on The Weather Channel (How Big Cities Warm the Planet, 4/4/13).

ESTO-sponsored Synthetic Aperture Radar flies on month-long expedition over the U.S. Gulf Coast, Arizona, and Central and South America.
+ 4/4/13 NASA Image of the day from flight over the Napo River in Ecuador and Peru

Congratulations to ESTO Principal Investigator Tom Flatley on receiving the 2012 American Astronautical Society William Randolph Lovelace II Award for outstanding contributions to space science and technology.

In response to the Federal budget cuts of March 1 (Sequestration), ESTO has cancelled the 2013 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2013), with plans to renew the annual event in 2014.

PI Stanley Sander featured in an Atlantic Cities article on the Megacities Carbon Project in L.A., which utilizes his PanFTS instrument at the California Lab for Atmospheric Remote Sensing.

New, open source software - the InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE) - to aid in disaster research and time-series imaging

AirSWOT (an airborne water surface topography instrument) is in the news for first flights that began 3/7:
+ OurAmazingPlanet article
+ Video from 1/25 NASA Dryden social media open house

Yehuda Bock's ESTO project featured in a Scripps Institution for Oceanography news article: Hybrid GPS-Seismic System Aims to Accelerate Earthquake Hazard Response (link no longer available)

The Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) is currently flying on the ER-2 as part of the NASA Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX).
+ More on AirMSPI

Join us at the GEOSS Future Products Workshop (March 26-28, Silver Spring, MD) on interoperable data systems and on-demand data products.

Article by ESTO PI Chris Mattmann – A Vision for Data Science – featured in 1/24/13 issue of Nature (Vol. 493, Issue 7433)

Registration for the 2013 Earth Science Technology Forum is now open. Visit the forum website.

Congratulations to Principal Investigator Andrea Donnellan on being elected to the AGU Council (President Elect, Nonlinear Geophysics Focus Group)

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2013 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2013) – to be held June 18 - 20 at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA. Visit the forum website for more information.

Attending the 2013 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting? Be sure to stop by the ESTO table at the NASA exhibit.