DEVELOP National Program

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DEVELOP National Program Community Benefits
of Applied Sciences
January 25, 2006
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Presentation Agenda

• Current Projects
• Proposed Projects
• Outreach
• Conclusion

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Twelve Applications of National Priority
Marshall, Langley
Mobile, Stennis
UConn, Ames
UConn, Ames
UNI
NM, Langley
Langley
UConn, UNI
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DEVELOP National Organization
DEVELOP National Program Office
Virginia
NASA Stennis Space Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
NASA Langley Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center
Mississippi
Maryland
Washington, D.C.
Virginia
California
Wise County
Mobile County Health Department
Tennessee Valley Authority
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Coosa Valley Regional Development Center
Georgia
Virginia
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
University of Northern Iowa
Pearl River Community College
University of Connecticut CLEAR
Iowa
Mississippi
Connecticut
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DEVELOP Challenges
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Applied Sciences Related to Southern US Disaster
Management

• Community Concern
• A need to investigate ways to improve hurricane
  predictions
• Pilot Products
• Visualization showing NASA data sets used for
  hurricane forecasting
• Damage Estimates of varying Hurricane Paths
• Poster presentation at the January 2006 Annual
  conference of the American Meteorological Society
  
• Customers
• Southern Growth Policies Board
• Science Community

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Applied Sciences Related to Tennessee Air Quality

• Community Concern
• Transportation of tropospheric ozone precursors
  and particulate matter into the Great Smoky
  Mountains National Park
• Products
• High Resolution Land Use/Land Cover dataset for
  CMAQ
• Visualization
• Publication
• Customers
• State of Tennessee
• Tennessee Valley Authority

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Applied Sciences Related to Tennessee Air Quality
MM5 Model Output of Surface Temperature from
8/28/03 through 8/29/03
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Applied Sciences Related to Iowa Homeland
Security

• Community Concern
• Vulnerabilities of corn and soybean crops to
  agro-terrorism
• Pilot Products
• Assessment of NASA and Partner Earth Observation
  Sources for agro-terrorism applications
• 3D visualization demonstrating NASA remote
  sensing capabilities in detecting agro-terrorism
  occurrences
• Publication
• Customer
• Midwestern Governors Association

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Applied Sciences Related to Iowa Homeland
Security
Ground Truth Overlays - SSAI
Land Cover (250m) Terra (MODIS) - NASA
Earth-Sun Science System Components Knowledge
Base
Select Agent List - USDA
Public Concern HSPD 7 and 9
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Applied Sciences Related to Iowa Homeland
Security
Geophysical Parameters
Model Outputs/Predictions
Observation Sources
Tools
NASA Missions
Tools
MATLAB 7.0
Data Consolidation
Land Cover / Land Use Inventories
Land Atmosphere Data

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
ENVI 4.0
Biomass
Non-NASA
ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7
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Applied Sciences Related to Iowa Homeland
Security
SSAI Time Series NDVI Module
Images provided courtesy of SSAI
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Applied Sciences Related to Western United States
Energy Management

• Community Concern
• Need for secure, reliable, affordable and
  environmentally-sound energy from a diverse range
  of energy sources
• Products
• Identification of potential wind, solar, and
  geothermal renewable energy locations in the west
• Feasibility analysis of locations and thematic
  map of possible GHG emissions reductions using
  the RETScreen model
• Analyze model outputs of national changes in GHG
  emissions using the Mini Climate Assessment Model
• Publication
• Customer
• Western Governors Association

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Applied Sciences Related to Western United
States Energy Management
MiniCAM National Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reductions
RETScreen Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reductions
Population Density US Census
Federal Lands Bureau of Land Management/Nationa
l Park Service
Infrastructure - FEMA
Land Use/Land Cover (30m) Terra (ASTER) - NASA
Elevation (90m) SRTM NASA NED (2 arc sec) USGS
WGA Clean and Diversified Energy initiative
for the West
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Applied Sciences Related to Western United
States Energy Management
Model Outputs/Predictions
Geophysical Parameters
Models
Observation Sources
RETScreen
Land Use / Land Cover
NASA Missions
Decision Support Tools
Data Consolidation
Renewable Energy Technology Screen
Land Atmosphere Data
Tropospheric Winds
Local and State Prediction of Pollutants
MiniCAM
Total Solar Irradiance
Non - NASA
Mini Climate Assessment Model
Atmospheric Water Vapor
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DEVELOP Solutions Network Support Team Research
Knowledge Base Prototype

• Community Concern
• Applied Sciences Program needs a proof of
  concept and feasibility of Research Results
  Knowledge-Base for Solutions Networks
• Products
• Initial collection of Research Results ES RA
  2001 NRAs funded journal articles
• Feasibility report on creating a Research Results
  Knowledge-Base
• Customer
• NASA Applied Sciences Program

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Research Result Search Methods
1) Create working database of funded projects
2) Decide what data is needed for journal
articles and projects as a whole. 3) Create
Search protocols (includes quality control- peer
reviewed journals vs. meeting/symposia poster
abstract) 4) Search for funded projects in
Journal Databases (best scholar.google.com,
Web of Science) 5) Capture Data 6) Compile
data 7) Refine process and refine data
management system 8) Deliver products
In Progress
3) Protocols 4) Search
1) Database 2) Priorities
5) Capture 6) Compile
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Research Product Knowledge Base Results and
Analysis
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ES RA 2001NRA Projects that Published
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Atm. Chem Modeling
Opps State Local
Cirrus Regional Cloud Study
Carbon Cycle Science
Instrument Incubator
ESS Fellowship
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Atmos.Composition Climate Variability Climate
Change Earth Surface Interior Carbon Cycle
Ecosystems Weather Water Energy Cycle
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Atm. Chem Modeling
Opps State Local
Cirrus Regional Cloud Study
Carbon Cycle Science
Instrument Incubator
ESS Fellowship
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Solutions Network
Decision Support Tools Requirements
Solutions Network
Network of Solution Providers and End-users
Missions/ Sensor Data Products
Optimize
Pre-evaluate Report Publish
Candidate Solutions
Models
Knowledge Base
Research
Mining
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Earth-Sun System Gateway

• Project Concern
• Need for updated content for new layout
• Products
• Text and graphics for new portal
• User feedback document
• Customer
• Geosciences Interoperability Office

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DEVELOP National Program Website
http//develop.larc.nasa.gov
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Applied Sciences Related to University of
Connecticut Projects

• Community Concern
• Long-term Land Cover (LC) and Impervious Surfaces
  (IS) data needed for Water Management and
  Ecological Forecasting projects
• Products
• Web-served data for LC and IS in CT and NY (Long
  Island Sound)
• Students for Water Management and Ecological
  Forecasting Projects
• Three papers/presentations submitted to ASPRS
  Reno 2006
• Two presentation proposals submitted to IGARSS
  Denver 2006
• Geophysical Training workshops for NEMO Network
• Customers
• State and local governments in Connecticut
• and New York

Ecological Forecasting
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Applied Sciences Related to University of
Connecticut Projects
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Applied Sciences Related to University of
Connecticut Projects
Model Outputs/ Predictions
Models
Measurements
Observation Sources
NASA Missions
CCL (CCA) ISAT CLEAR ISRegress CLEAR Forest
Fragmentation and Urban Growth Models Scenario
360 N-SPECT
Terra ASTER
Land Cover / Land Use Inventories
Data Consolidation
Land Atmosphere Data
Models
Land Surface Topography
QuickBird
Non-NASA
Biomass
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Applied Sciences Related to University of
Northern Iowa Projects

• Community Concern
• Improved access to near real time data for
  assessing crop quality
• Products
• Web based model to provide daily Crop Health and
  Yield Predictions
• Visualizations of model outputs
• Publication
• Customers
• State, local, and tribal governments
• Iowa Office of Environmental Quality
• USDA extension agents

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DEVELOP
Applied Sciences Related to Alaska Ecological
Forecasting

• Community Concern
• Global change effect on ice flows
• Products
• Characterization of sea ice dispersal patterns
  correlated to known distribution and behavioral
  patterns of polar bear and walrus
• Ecological forecasts
• Customer
• Fish and Wildlife Service

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DEVELOP
Applied Sciences Related to California
Ecological Forecasting

• Community Concerns
• Equivalency of carbon sequestration in post-fire
  regenerated forest ecosystems
• How ecosystem recovery models can be linked to
  fire behavior
• Product
• Extended TOPS capability for fire behavior
  modeling
• Customer
• National Park Service, Yosemite National Park

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DEVELOP
Applied Sciences Related Western United States
Invasive Species

• Community Concern
• Multi-source databases for Great Basin invasive
  species are not compatible with Invasive Species
  Forecasting System
• Product
• Standardized Database of Great Basin Invasive
  Species Data
• Customers
• Bureau of Land Management
• US Forest Service
• State Weed Control Agencies

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Applied Sciences Related to Georgia Air Quality

• Community Concern
• Local and regional contribution of particulate
  matter in Rome, Georgia
• Products
• Visualization demonstrating particulate matter
  distribution
• Publication
• Customers
• State of Georgia
• Coosa Valley Regional Development
• Center

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Applied Sciences International Projects

• Community Challenge
• Provide support to the ISRSE Conference, Costa
  Rica 2007
• Products
• DEVELOP project in support of MILAGRO
• Assistance with conference logistics
• Presentation to ISRSE student participants
• Customers
• Applied Sciences Program
• ISRSE Conference planners

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Applied Sciences International Projects

• Idea 1 Support MILAGRO
• Atmospheric pollution transportation and air
  quality
• Validate satellite observations (Aura, Aqua,
  Terra, Envisat)
• Involves atmospheric models
• Extensive field campaign (air, ground, satellite)
• International participation (NASA, NSF, DOE,
  Mexico)
• Idea 2 Propose special MILAGRO session as part
  of ISRSE conference
• MILAGRO has local, regional and international
  interest
• Conference is timed for discussion of mission
  results

LaRC King Air

• Models
• MM5, MM5CAMx
• WRF, WRF-chem
• STEM
• FLEXPART
• MOZART
• GEOS-Chem
• RAQMS

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DEVELOP Activities Poster Presentation at AGU
December 2005 - San Francisco, CA
"Using MODIS Imagery to Detect the Invasive
Species Cheatgrass in Northwestern Utah" Anthony
Quarm, Shoshana Risman, Thomas Glennon, Mahdi
Ashktorab, Cindy Schmidt, and J. W. Skiles.
Mahdi Ashktorab presented.
"Post-Fire Regeneration Assessment in Yosemite
National Park" Mindy Syfert, Jacqueline Rudy,
Lindsey Anderson, Casey Cleve, Jeffrey Jenkins,
Cindy Schmidt and J. W. Skiles.  Mindy Syfert
presented.
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DEVELOP Outreach Activities
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In Conclusion
Students create and demonstrate projects
addressing
Applications of National Priority
communicating
Benefits of NASA Applied Sciences research
results to communities
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Questions and Comments