Earth Science Technology Forum 2025
WELCOME
The 2025 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2025) will be held June 10-12 in Mountain View, CA. Hosted by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), this event showcases 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.
LOCATION
NASA Ames Conference Center
Building 3
500 Severyns Avenue, Moffett Field, CA 94035
REGISTRATION
ESTF2025 is free but registration is required. Click here to register.
Please note: Foreign Nationals and Lawful Permanent Residents must register no later than April 17, 2025, to allow for necessary processing to access the NASA Research Park.
Please also note: NASA civil servants and contractors are also expected to register in the NASA Conference Tracking System (NCTS) to attend (NCTS #51445-25). JPL employees should enter a forecast into the JPL DHAC system.
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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