LEVERAGING A SPACE AGENCY’S VIEW OF EARTH TO ADDRESS SOCIETAL NEEDS

Connected Urban Development, Global Conference 2008 September 23-24, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Larry Barone, PhD, Consultant Entrepreneurial Initiatives Division

Gary Martin, Director New Ventures and Communications

MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGEMITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE

What technologies can we leverage?

What practices can we change?

What information do we need?

How can NASA data, science and technology help meet those needs?

citizen or student

policy maker or regulator

scientist or teacher public institution or private organization

government agency or private business

January 25, 2005

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO PROVIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION AND INNOVATIVE

SOLUTIONS

Build on NASA’s Core Earth Science Capabilities

Leverage Critical Information Systems

Partner In New Ways

NASA’s Earth Science

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OSTM

Glory

OCO Aquarius

NPP

LDCM

GPM Core

GPM Constellation

GOES-O

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L1/L2/HEO/GEOSentinel satellites for continuous monitoring

LEO/MEOActive and passive sensors for trends and process studies

SuborbitalIn situ measurement in research campaigns and validation of remote sensors

Surface Based NetworksOcean buoys, air samplers, strain detectors, ground validation sites

Information SystemsData management, data assimilation, modeling and synthesis

NightSat Identifying human energy use and distribution through observation of light

Current night lights resolution

ISS

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Washington, DCSF Bay Area

Nighttime images from International Space Station courtesy Don Petit, Exp 6, NASA

NightSat

Santa Cruz Mtns

East Bay HillsSF Bay

San Francisco Thermal IR MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator

(15 April 2008, 4:30am)

11.0um pseudo-colored 11.0um grey scale

4 meter

Mean Global Temperatures

NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Program (NSIPP)

Effects of soot on polar ice

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO PROVIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION AND INNOVATIVE

SOLUTIONS

Build on NASA’s Core Earth Science Capabilities

Leverage Critical Information Systems Partner In New Ways

Nemani et al., 2003 and 2007

TOPS: Common Modeling Framework

Monitoring, modeling, & forecasting at multiple scales

Standard TOPS Outputs: Local to Global Scales

Global NPP Anomalies U.S. Gross Primary ProductivityCalifornia Daily Soil Moisture Estimates

Yosemite Minimum Temperatures

Napa Valley Forecasted Vineyard Irrigation Demands

Spatial scales from 0.5 degrees to 4m. Temporal scales from yearly to daily.

Outputs: landscape-to

continental scale predictive maps

of above and below ground distributions of sequestered carbon for

different climate scenarios

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NASA MODIS Products

Inputs include continental-scale land cover, NDVI, FPAR, elevation, soils, and

climate data …

Cropland NPP

Leaf Biomass

VEMAP & Daymet (UMT)Climate data

NASA / NGASRTM

Elevation

Cropland Afforestation Prediction

CASA CQUEST – A Decision Support System for Carbon Accounting

Multi-scale Validation Information

USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis Data

User Defined ProfileRegion of InterestTime FrameBiophysicalManagementClimate Scenario

Carbon Sequestration Prediction

NationalResourceInventory

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-25000 -12500 0 12500 25000

Annual Net Ecosystem Flux of Carbon -- 2004 from MODIS inputs

C Source C Sink

g C m-2 yr -1

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Wildfire MonitoringReal-time monitoring of Western States Wildfires

Remote sensing with autonomous modular sensor

Deployment of ground, aerial (UAV’s), and orbital assets

Integration of weather data (images and maps)

Distributed data communication

Wildfire Monitoring

MODIS fire detection

Mission plan

Flight track

Thermal IR scan

UAV pose

MODIS satellite active fire detection

GOES satellite weather images

NIFC fire locations / perimeters

Airspace boundaries temporary restrictions

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Southern California Firestorm (SoCA 07)

Supported emergency request by CA-Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and FEMA for “intelligence” assistance on 11 wildfires raging in So. CA.

Witch & Poomacha

Fire

Fire Perimeters of Oct 25th (red) with AMS-Wildfire- acquired fire detect data (same day)

San Diego County OES

NASA Ikhana UAS

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO PROVIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION AND INNOVATIVE

SOLUTIONS

Build on NASA’s Core Earth Science Capabilities

Leverage Critical Information Systems

Partner In New Ways

Applied Science and Enabling Technologies

Pipeline Rights-of- Way Surveillance

and Leak DetectionPIPE

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Situational Awareness for

First Responders

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Disaster Response

Real-time Monitoring of

Western States Wildfires

WRAP/SoCal FiresW

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FIR

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Improving Situational Awareness, Coordinationand Speed of Response

• Rapid image processing/overlay of satellite imagery

• Geo-positioning of aerial fly-over imagery• Integrated view of disaster zones

Disaster Imaging & Response

Ground assessment

Aerial recon

Aerial recon

NASA and “Network” provide the global perspective and

unique combination of interdisciplinary science,

state-of-the-art Earth System modeling, and global remote sensing observations (sat,

airborne and terrestrial) needed to understand and project terrestrial carbon

cycle dynamics in real time...

…Cisco and Partners provide the global

understanding of what is required to make tropical rainforests ‘worth more

alive than dead’ by developing the business

models and the capabilities of a ‘planetary skin’

enabling real time forest carbon stock management

that can be funded by carbon markets & funds.

‘Planetary Skin’ partner logic to-date

Tropical Forest Carbon

Water Stress & Biodiversity

Food Productivity

Risk Assessment

Energy-related Urban

Emissions

Time

‘Planetary Skin’ platform development, staged applications environments and services

San Francisco Thermal IR Survey15 April 2008 (4:30am PDT)

MASTER 11.0um 4m Data

Bayview Industrial

St Francis Woods Residential

Civic Center

CHALLENGES AHEAD

Build on NASA’s Core Earth Science Capabilities

Leverage Critical Information Systems

Partner In New Ways

Gary MartinDirector New Ventures and Communications DirectorateNASA Ames Research CenterGary.L.Martin@nasa.gov(650) 604-2400

Larry Barone, PhDManaging Director, BAE Innovative Public-Private Partnership TeamSupporting the Entrepreneurial Initiatives DivisionNASA Ames Research CenterLarry.Barone@nasa.gov(650) 604-1325