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Local Canadian Wildfire News Includes Imagery from FIRMS
2025.05.30
FIRMS imagery was included in Canadian local news stories Residents hoping to save cabins fighting wildfire themselves; Candle Lake asks for SPSA support, on CJME.com and Sambaa K’e residents told to be ready with wildfire 30 km away, on Cabin Radio. CJME980 is a radio station based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Cabin Radio, is a news source for residents of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.
When Earth Fails, Space Responds
2025.05.30
The VIIRS/NOAA-20 nighttime lights product (619), provisioned through LANCE and displayed in Worldview, was included in an article on SPACENEWS about the power outages across Spain at the end of April. The article discussed the inadequacies of terrestrial networks and highlighted how satellite technology offers a lifeline by using LEO satellite constellations to make this hybrid model possible (by complementing terrestrial networks).
FIRMS Data Appears in Nature
2025.05.21
MODIS active fire data from FIRMS was used in Nature's article "The role of atmospheric feedback and groundwater conservation policies in degrading air quality in Delhi."
Blackout in Andalusia
2025.05.01
NASA's Black Marble products (619) were used to monitor the impact and recovery patterns across the Iberian Peninsula following a widespread power outage on April 28, 2025, which disrupted the daily lives of tens of millions of people in Spain and Portugal. These timely nighttime light observations provided insight into the extent and progression of the outages, particularly in areas where ground-based reporting may have been delayed.
FIRMS Referenced in New Jersey Fire News
2025.04.25
The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) (619) was referenced in two articles covering the recent fires in New Jersey, including an article on SciTechDaily, Inferno From Orbit: NASA Tracks 15,000-Acre Wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens (April 25), and a similar article on NASA Earth Observatory, New Jersey Pine Barrens Ablaze (April 23).
Varied Media Outlets Highlight FIRMS
2025.04.11
FIRMS was referenced in wildfire assessment articles in GeoAwesome, Reuters, and Nepali Times.
Data Wrangling with Dana Ostrenga
2025.04.09
Dana Ostrenga is the CSDA Project Manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a data interoperability expert. She described how government and commercial Earth observation satellites complement each other and provide broader support to the scientific community when used together.
FIRMS Utilized for Missouri and Oklahoma Fire Detection
2025.03.14
FIRMS was referenced in articles on Eye13 KRCG, Highway patrol urges evacuation as fires spread in Camden County, and the Oklahoman, Wildfire outbreak threatens Oklahoma towns as extreme fire conditions persist: Recap, in coverage of wildfires around mid-Missouri and Oklahoma City. Screenshots from FIRMS, displaying fire detections were included.
FIRMS Makes Tech News
2025.03.14
FIRMS was referenced in an article on GlobalSpec: Electronics 360. Electronics 360 covers technology trends/news that impact the global electronic supply chain. The article, How AI imaging is reshaping industries, noted how “rapid and precise imaging technologies, such as NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), have played a critical role in capturing real-time satellite imagery, analyzing heat signatures and smoke plumes, and transforming visual inputs into early containment and resource optimization.”
PACE-PAX: A Day in the Life of a NASA Field Campaign
2024.12.17
It’s a flight day for one of NASA’s most expansive and complex field campaigns.
The goal: to check the data collected from orbit by NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. To do that, members of the PACE-PAX (PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment) field campaign deployed two aircraft and a research ship from multiple locations in California over the duration of September 2024.
2024 Clarivate (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researchers
2024.11.19
Benjamin Cook (611), Joanna Joiner (614), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Doug Morton (618), Nima Pahlevan (619), and Ben Poulter (618) were selected as 2024 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (Web of Science). Recipients are recognized for their exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year.
ReliefWeb Highlights Sudan Flood Forecasts
2024.11.12
Kimberly Slinski (619/ESSIC) contributed to ReliefWeb's article highlighting how satellite data and Earth system models are used to monitor and forecast extreme floods and how these technologies are vital for providing life-saving early warning in South Sudan.
Notes from the Field: Twenty-one Hours a Day on 30-Foot Floating Science Lab
2024.09.24
Off the coast of southern California, a research team sails for science on the Research Vessel Blissfully. https://earthobserv
PACE Blog: NASA Pilots Use Specialty Suits to Validate Data
2024.09.24
Welcome to NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX). PACE-PAX uses the unique vantage point of the ER-2 aircraft to gather data on small particles in the atmosphere and ultimately help verify the data gathered by the satellite in orbit.
Notes from the Field: Sailing Away for PACE
2024.09.13
Hello from sunny Santa Barbara, California, where the ship operations for the PACE-PAX campaign are underway!
Earthdata Features FIRMS
2024.08.20
NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is helping officials in Thailand and throughout the Lower Mekong River Region manage fires and smoke haze.
Debby's Rainfall Highlighted
2024.08.13
Andrey Savtchenko (619/ADNET) authored a GES DISC Data-in-Action article with maps and discussion of Debby's track and rainfall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Northeast United States. In the Southeast, Debby produced record one-day maximum precipitation values.
Notes from the Field: Day-in-the-Life of a PACE-PAX Mission Flight
2024.08.12
We are in the field supporting PACE-PAX (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment), a multi-disciplinary mission that involves two aircraft—the NASA ER-2 and CIRPAS Twin Otter—and several mobile ocean assets, all helping to validate observations and data products from NASA’s new satellite observation platform, PACE.
TEMPO Data Layers Available
2024.07.19
Fourteen new data layers from NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission are available in NASA Worldview. The layers help you interactively explore visualizations related to clouds, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and more. An announcement on the Earthdata website has more information
July Earth Science Data Roundup
2024.07.19
NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program is constantly adding new data, products, and services to aid your Earth science research. Read about the latest new resources in the July Earth Science Data Roundup
Black Marble for Hurricane Beryl
2024.07.18
NASA's Black Marble Products (GSFC 619) were utilized to help track power loss and recovery in the Houston area due to Hurricane Beryl that struck the Texas coastline on July 8, 2024, leaving nearly 3 million homes and businesses without power.
Precipitation Impacts from Hurricane Beryl
2024.07.16
The GES DISC published a Data-in-Action article "Precipitation Impacts from Hurricane Beryl." This article used Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) data to display the track of Beryl, including its interaction with Jamaica, coastal Texas, and all the way to Vermont, where its remnants caused significant flooding.
NASA Earthdata Features Wildfire Detection
2024.06.11
A NASA Earthdata feature focused on how data from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) help personnel in Canada's Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Climate Change detect and manage wildfires.
Earth Day Toolkit Available
2024.04.18
NASA’s fleet of satellites see the whole Earth, every day. This year, you can celebrate Earth Day with NASA wherever you are! Host your own Earth Day event—supported by NASA science—with activities, demonstrations, handouts, posters, videos, and more.
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