ESTO News

The 2019 ESTO Annual Report is now available online

A new backpack-sized satellite is aiming to collect, process and calibrate infrared images to reveal Earth’s temperature for the first time from a small satellite. 

Attending the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting? Take along the schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities (PDF).

Kevin Turpie recounts long nights at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California to test the air-LUSI instrument in November 2019. 

A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon’s brightness and eventually help Earth observing sensors make more accurate measurements.

The HARP CubeSat, which launched on 11/2/19, is featured in this article from UMBC: We have liftoff! UMBC-developed mini satellite launched into space to study climate, air quality

NASA Funds 19 New Instrument Development Projects to Advance Earth Science

NASA Funds 19 New Instrument Development Projects to Advance Earth Science under the 2019 solicitation of the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP)

The HARP CubeSat, which launches on 11/2, is featured in this NASA article: Tiny NASA Satellite Will Soon See ‘Rainbows’ In Clouds

New Information Systems Projects Aim to Advance Earth Science

ESTO is pleased to announce 22 new projects selected under the 2018 solicitation of the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program

New NASA-funded technology will help guide future Earth observing missions

TEMPEST-D CubeSat featured in this NASA article: NASA's Multiple Views of Hurricane Dorian from Space

In DeepRacer Challenge, Algorithms Provide Path Across the 'Moon'

NASA project helps water managers in a warming world – An ESTO-funded project at NCAR is creating and sharing software, maps and datasets to localize global projections of climate change for local water management

Presentations from the 2019 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2019) are now available online.

Mission planning tool for next generation snow measurements is featured in this article on nasa.gov:
Looking For Freshwater In All the Snowy Places

Join us next week for the 2019 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2019) at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA.

CSIM Shines Light on New Way to Measure the Sun

Celebrate the Earth Day with NASA: - Hands on exhibits at Union Station, Washington DC, April 22-23 - Share a favorite nature photo on Twitter #PictureEarth

The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instrument is featured in this article on nasa.gov:
Illuminating Gases in The Sky: NASA Technology Pinpoints Potent Greenhouse Gases

The full schedule of sessions for the 2019 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2019) is now available

The 2019 solicitation for the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) is now open as element A.49 of the ROSES-2019 omnibus announcement. NOIs are requested May 31, 2019, and proposals are due July 12, 2019. Additionally, a pre-proposal bidder’s conference will be held on May 15, 2019 (access information for the bidder’s conference is provided in Section 8 of the solicitation).

Decoding Extreme Weather at the Poles

ESTO's JAWS project is making weather data in the polar regions more accessible: Decoding Extreme Weather at the Poles

NeMO-Net project featured in this article on EOS: Coral Reef Video Game Will Help Create Global Database

Work has begun on a new CubeSat mission that will demonstrate for the first time a new, highly promising technique for measuring soil moisture from space — data important for early flood and drought warnings as well as crop-yield forecasts.

ESTO is pleased to announce the 2019 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2019),
June 11-13 in Mountain View, CA

ESTO's SoilSCAPE project is featured in this article at EOS.org: Soil Moisture Data Sets Become Fertile Ground for Applications

As a result of the partial government shutdown, proposals to the 2018 solicitation for the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program are due April 16, 2019. No new NOIs are requested.

Due to the government shutdown, a revised due date for proposals to the 2018 solicitation for the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program will be announced shortly.