Earth Science Technology Forum 2025

WELCOME

UPDATE: With ongoing travel uncertainty throughout the Federal government, we have made the decision to cancel the in-person 2025 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2025) and are working to pivot to a fully-virtual event. This will likely take the form of short, science-themed sessions held approximately once per week. Watch this space for details. 

ESTF2025 is  hosted by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) and is intended to showcase the wide array of technology research and development related to NASA’s Earth science endeavors. Attendees will encounter the latest advances in NASA technology for Earth science observations – remote sensing instruments, platforms, components, advanced information systems, quantum sensing, machine learning, and modeling. ESTF2025 is also intended to promote collaboration and networking among technologists, scientists and mission planners as well as facilitate a more complete understanding of NASA technology requirements.

REGISTRATION

Although the in-person event is cancelled, we continue to collect registrations in order to gauge general interest and facilitate further communications . Click here to register.

 

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PRELIMINARY LIST OF PRESENTATIONS

Earth-observing Photonic Integrated Circuit (EPIC) Instrument Component Development
– Máté Ádámkovics, Lockheed Martin

Progress Toward an Airborne Rydberg Remote Sensing Demonstration
– Darmindra Arumugam, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

FireWatch
– Jatin Bains, Space-Eyes, LLC

Agriculture Information System: A coupled hydrology and crop modeling framework for Agriculture
– Rajat Bindlish, NASA GSFC

Recent Progress in the Development and Testing of Intelligent, Data-Driven Sensors for High-Resolution Microwave Sounding and Imaging from Small Satellite Platforms
– Bill Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Dynamic Targeting for Earth Science
– Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A Framework for Global Cloud-Resolving OSSEs
– Thomas Clune, NASA GSFC

Development of the TRL 6 Simplified Gravitational Reference Sensor for the GRATTIS Mission
– John Conklin, University of Florida

Multi-functional airborne fluorescence lidar to assess ocean systems health and marine pollution
– Madeline Cowell, BAE Inc, Space & Missions Systems

OSSEs for the PBL DSI Passive Observing system
– Arlindo da Silva, NASA GSFC

The ARGOS Instrument for Stratospheric Aerosol Measurements
– Matthew DeLand, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

Combining Spaceborne Hyperspectral Microwave and Backscatter Lidar measurements to enhance Earth Planetary Boundary Layer Sounding
– Antonia Gambacorta, NASA GSFC

HyMPI: Enabling Hyperspectral Planetary Boundary Layer Observations with Photonic Integrated Circuits
– Fabrizio Gambini, University of Maryland Baltimore County

First results from the SNOOPI mission
– James L Garrison, Purdue University

Lessons from LA Fires: Can Knowledge Graphs Help to Mitigate the Risks?
– Yulia R. Gel, Virginia Tech

Advancing a New Snow Observing Strategy with the Novel Observing Strategies Testbed
– Emmanuel Miguel Gonzalez, Arizona State University

Airborne Test of c-FIRST Over Los Angeles Fires
– Sarath Gunapala, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A NASA Unified Wildfire Digital Twin As A Service
– Milton Halem, UMBC

Technology Development to Integrate Innovative Observation Capabilities into Coupled Wildfire Models for Improved Active Fire Forecasting
– Kyle Hilburn, CIRA / Colorado State University

Uncertainty Quantification for Digital Twins with Bayesian Transport Maps
– Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Earth System Digital Twin for Wildfire and Air Quality
– Thomas Huang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

First Observations from the Airborne Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder CoSMIR-H
– Rachael Kroodsma, NASA GSFC

Advancing Cloud Classification in Satellite Imagery via Few-Shot VAE Learning and an Interactive 3D Geospatial Platform
– Kwo-Sen Kuo, Bayesics, LLC

Reproducible Containers for Process-oriented Collaborative Analytics
– Kwo-Sen Kuo, Bayesics Inc

A Flexible Configuration Distributed Synthetic Aperture Digital Beamforming Radar (FlexDSAR) for Future Earth Science Missions
– Yunling Lou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Airborne Flight Results of the Microwave Barometric Radar and Sounder (MBARS)
– Matthew Walker McLinden, NASA GSFC

Sediment Plumes and Blooms: Using Earth Observations and Modeling to Forecast Post-Fire impacts to Reservoir Water Quality and Quantity
– Mary Ellen Miller, Michigan Tech Research Institute

MACTRad: Solid -State Metasurface based Dynamic Antenna for Cloud-Targeting Radar
– Divya Pande, Metacept Inc.

Initial Deployment and Assembly of the TERRAHydro Terrestrial Twin
– Craig Pelissier, NASA / SSAI

Hot Spot: High-Resolution Real-Time Wildfire Detection, Mapping, and Communication Relay System with Persistent Broad-Area Coverage
– Riley Reid, Urban Sky

Advancing Cloud and Precipitation Profiling with a Multifrequency Radar
– Raquel Rodriguez Monje, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Distributed Spacecraft with Heuristic Intelligence to monitor Wildfire Spread for Responsive Control
– Sreeja Roy-Singh, BAER Institute at NASA ARC

Heat and flooding digital twin tools for New York City
– Alex Ruane, NASA GIST

ILEOS: An Intelligent New Observing Strategy
– Meghan Saephan, NASA ARC

DEEP-VIEW Integration of Coastal Observations and Models to Inform Water Quality Resource Managers and Decisions
– Stephanie Schollaert Uz, NASA GSFC

Decentralized vs centralized approaches for reactive planning in autonomous sensor webs
– Daniel Selva, Texas A&M University

The SNOWWI Instrument: SAR processing and new data collections
– Paul Siqueira, University of Massachusetts

Deep Learning Emulation of Atmospheric Composition for Uncertainty Estimation and Extended Forecast Windows
– Jennifer Sleeman, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Metalens Origami Deployable Lidar Telescope (MODeL-T)
– Mark Stephen, NASA-Goddard

Kernel methods for high-volume forward and inverse problems in the context of NASA imaging spectroscopy missions
– Jouni Susiluoto, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

CHAPS: Airborne Success and Future Spaceflight Qualification
– William H. Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Detection and Ranging Systems on a Chip (DARSoC)
– Ramy Tantawy and/or Shane Smith, SenseICs Corporation

FireTIRS: Initial results from prescribed fires during winter 2025 and the FireSense 2025 Airborne Campaign
– James Thompson, University of Texas at Austin

AURORA Pathfinder – A New Hyper-spectral Sounder for Planetary Boundary Layer Observations
– Manuel A Vega, NASA GSFC

REMIR: The Reduced Envelope Multispectral Infrared Radiometer airborne demonstrator for Sustained Land Imaging
– Michael Stephen Veto, BAE Systems, Inc. – Space and Mission Systems

Development of a Coastal Zone Digital Twin
– Jeff Walter, NASA LaRC

Snow pack Characterization with Lidars
– Carl Weimer, BAE Systems, Inc

Pyro-atmosphere Infrared Sounder (PIRS): A sub-kilometer spatial resolution hyperspectral infrared sounder for wildland fire-atmosphere interaction
– Sun Wong, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A Novel Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Instrument for Persistent Sensing from the Stratosphere: Initial Demonstrations
– Lauren Wye, Aloft Sensing, Inc.

Improving the Accuracy and Reducing Uncertainty of Air Quality Digital Twin
– Chaowei Yang (Phil), George Mason University

Enhancing Data Security and Integrity in Earth Systems Digital Twins Using Blockchain
– Yelena Yesha, University of Miami