A cloud-based data analytics platform based on the Australian innovation “Australian Geoscience Data Cube” which became the international Open Data Cube (opendatacube.org) concept with partners NASA, USGS, UK Catapult, CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites).
Current EASI projects overseas in Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, US (California), Chile and Colombia. Exploring opportunities to commercialize the technology.
An operating SAR satellite mission relying on an international partnership already between Aus (CSIRO), the UK (SSTL), India (ISRO), and the Philippines. CSIRO owns 10% capacity share of the mission. Allows Australia to have direct control over the tasking of the satellite. Opens R&D and applications opportunities in tropical areas (Pacific, Indian Oceans) and with new S-band SAR instruments
Digital Earth Australia is a program of Geoscience Australia, an agency of the Australian Government. DEA creates free and open satellite data products for the benefit of Australia. DEA’s mission is to embed satellite imagery and data into decisions that support a sustainable Australian environment, a resilient society and a strong economy. DEA provides:
Bhuvan disaster page gives disaster-specific information on Flood, Cyclone, landslide, Earthquake, Forest fire, and Drought. Currently, the information content is specific to the Indian region. This could be linked to the portals of other agencies.
The Tsunami Warning system of INCOIS provides alerts to 25 rim countries of the Indian Ocean. The first alert will be provided within 10 minutes of an earthquake in the Oceanic region. The second bulletin is released within 20 minutes after running the simulation models based on the initial conditions. Further, based on the observation, the alerts will be upgraded or downgraded.
The Himawari-8/9 satellite is performing observation every 10 minutes with three visible, three near-infrared and ten infrared bands. JMA generally distributes Himawari-8/9 data via its HimawariCast and HimawariCloud systems. JMA provides its HimawariRequest service, which allows National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to request Target Area observation conducted by Himawari-8/9 every 2.5 minutes.
Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) has been developed by the Japan by interpolating observations from Microwave imagers and Infrared imagers on board the geostationary satellites. GSMaP provides an hourly global rainfall map in 0.1-degree latitude/longitude grid through the “JAXA Global Rainfall Watch” website. The GSMaP rainfall dataset has been accumulated for over 20 years. Total number of GSMaP registrants is over 8,900 from 145 countries. Many of them are in tropical regions such as Asia and Pacific islands, where ground-based observation network is inadequate to understand near real time rainfall or to assess the impacts caused by extreme weather events. JAXA has been cooperating with NASA in spaceborne precipitation measurement through Multi-satellite Precipitation Mapping. Under Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission for more than 20 years. The 3-dimentional structures of precipitation can be obtained by JAXA’s precipitation radars (TRMM/PR, GPM/DPR).
A joint initiative of NASA, USAID, and leading geospatial organizations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, SERVIR partners with countries and organizations to address critical challenges in climate change, food and water security, water-related disasters, land use, and air quality.
NOAA NESDIS is implementing the Coastal Observations Applications Services and Tools (COAST) Initiative under the auspices of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). This initiative provides valuable coastal satellite data products, information and applications supporting coastal resilience activities, and has been selected as a Contribution to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
NOAA provides a range of training and technical assistance to our international partners to support their climate goals.
Examples include building the capacity of international partners to deliver climate products within their countries; improving the understanding of and promoting data-driven decision making for climate-related impacts and adaptation; producing climate and drought situational awareness products used in the response planning for climate extreme events like droughts, flooding, and extreme heat. Specific examples:
NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Viewer: A publicly available information and data tool which helps coastal communities project local flooding and sea level rise impacts.
NOAA’s Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper: A publicly available mapping resource to visualize coastal exposure and identify vulnerable areas and infrastructure.
Hazard Mapping System Fire and Smoke Product: A publicly available mapping resource and data tool that integrates a variety of types of satellite imagery to show the locations of fire and smoke in the US (and has also been used in Mexico and exported to other nations e.g., in process of exporting to Indonesia)
Early Warning Systems for weather, climate and hydrological disasters.
The NOAA flood portal provides near-real-time global flood maps using NOAA JPSS VIIRS and NOAA and JMA geostationary satellites. The website provides downloadable geotiff files for local GIS applications. The website is used by NOAA and FEMA, a number of response organizations including the UNITAR, A local version is available on CSPP for lower latency. The website is also used to support the International Disaster Charter.
The Landsat satellites, developed and launched by NASA and operated by USGS, have continuously acquired images of the Earth’s land surfaces since 1972, providing uninterrupted data to help land managers and policymakers make informed decisions about land use, land cover, surface water, and coastal ecosystems change, and their relationship to the Earth’s climate system. USGS has developed research-quality, applications-ready, Level-2 and Level-3 science products that can be used to monitor, assess, and project how changes in land use, land cover, and land condition affect people and nature.
A powerful interface for viewing, analyzing, and downloading the latest near real-time and disaster-specific data products in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format. The Disasters Mapping Portal supports NASA’s Earth Applied Sciences Disasters program area in its mission to use Earth-observing data and applied research to improve the prediction of, preparation for, response to, and recovery from hazards and disasters around the world.
This disaster-focused data pathfinder is designed to help guide new users through the process of selecting and using applicable datasets, with guidance on resolutions and direct links to the data sources.
NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) Earth Observing System (EOS) data and imagery enable users to get a snapshot of the Earth in near-real-time (NRT). This timely data is useful for a range of applications e.g. to detect fires, track smoke, ash, and dust plumes; to monitor aerosols, carbon monoxide (CO), and sulfur dioxide (SO2), which in turn are useful for air quality assessments; and to determine the extent of sea ice, snow, and flooding which are useful to support shipping in the polar regions and to allow rapid assessment of areas worst affected by snow or flood water.
NOAA has a full and open data policy for all of our satellites and in situ networks. NOAA currently provides two approaches to enable searching vast data holdings: the traditional NOAA Data Catalog for all data, and the new NOAA OneStop catalog which initially includes only the archived datasets but will eventually replace the traditional catalog. NOAA's Data Discovery Portal includes information of both of these catalogs. Further, NOAA NESDIS maintains one of the most significant archives of environmental data on the Earth through our National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). NCEI hosts and provides public access to over 37 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data. All of this data is available to the public.
