A SLIPpery Slope: Monitoring and Forecasting Rainfall Induced Landslides in the Wake of the Gorkha Earthquake

EarthzineDEVELOP 2015 Summer VPS, DEVELOP Virtual Poster Session, Investigating Impacts of Fire and Landslide Disasters

This is an article from the Summer 2015 VPS. For more VPS articles, click here Category:åÊInvestigating Impacts of Fire and Landslide Disasters Project Team: Himalaya Disasters II Team Location: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – Greenbelt, Maryland, and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) – Kathmandu, Nepal Authors: Justin Roberts-Pierel Aakash Ahamed Jessica Fayne Binu Maharjan Kanti Shree Sen … Read More

Beyond a Shadow of a Drought II: Monitoring Severity from Space

EarthzineAssessing Drought and Water Availability, DEVELOP 2015 Summer VPS, DEVELOP Virtual Poster Session

This is an article from the Summer 2015 VPS. For more VPS articles, click here Category:åÊAssessing Drought and Water Availability Project Team: Navajo Nation Climate II Team Location: NASA Ames Research Center ‰ÛÒ Mountain View, California Authors: Cheryl Cary Michael Gao Vickie Ly Anton Surunis Sophie Turnbull-Appell Mentors/Advisors: Dr. J. W. Skiles (NASA Ames Research Center) Dr. Venkat Lakshmi (University … Read More

Remote Drought Monitoring in the Navajo Nation: Utilizing NASA Earth Observation Data

EarthzineIndigenous Perspectives on Environmental Change Theme, Original, Themed Articles

Drought monitoring is essential in the management of water resources, especially in underserved and arid areas such as the Navajo Nation. The DEVELOP team at the NASA Ames Research Center examined methods for calculating Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) values in the Nation using NASA Earth observation data in ArcGIS.