NASA Earth Science Division
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NASA
The FireSense Project
Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer Wind is a major factor in fire. It controls how fires evolve and pose threats to the safety of communities. While weather balloons are routinely used in daily operations outside of wildland fire management and have traditionally produced vertical soundings to define changes in atmospheric dynamics, the use of…
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NASA Evaluates Commercial Small-Sat Earth Data for Science
NASA has launched a pilot program to evaluate how Earth science data from commercial small-satellite constellations could supplement observations from the agency’s fleet of orbiting Earth science missions. On Sept. 28, the agency awarded sole-source contracts to acquire test data sets from three private sector organizations. NASA’s Earth Science Division in Washington issued blanket purchase agreements for the “Private Sector…
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