Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Assessing the Spring 2011 Mississippi River Basin Floods using NASA Radar and Multispectral Remote Sensing
What roles do radar and optical remote sensing data play in assessing natural disasters, and how effective are they for disaster warning, management and mitigation? The DEVELOP team at JPL assessed the Mississippi River flooding of 2011 through an innovative combination of Earth observations and demonstrated the benefits that can be derived from using remote sensing data in response to such crises.
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November 10th, 2011
DEVELOP Virtual Poster Session
The Feb. 27 Magnitude 8.8 Earthquake in Chile May Have Shortened the Length of Each Earth Day
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory research scientist Richard Gross has computed how Earth’s rotation should have changed and shortened the Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds as a result of the Feb. 27 quake.
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March 4th, 2010
Articles, Disasters, Earth Observation, Would You Believe?
Airborne Radar to Study Quake Faults in Haiti
NASA’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, aboard a modified NASA Gulfstream III aircraft, will study geologic processes in Hispaniola following the Haiti earthquake. NASA’s flights will help scientists better assess the geophysical processes associated with earthquakes along large faults and better understand the risks, said Paul Lundgren of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the principal investigator for the Hispaniola overflights.
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February 10th, 2010
Articles, Disasters, Earth Observation
NASA Daily Image
Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun
On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare. Image Credit: JAXA/Hinode