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Hyperspectral Data to Find Phytoplankton

This CISESS Seed Project uses both supervised-learning and self-teaching machine learning to classify hyperspectral data to ocean composition and phytoplankton types in collaboration with the CISESS Remote Sensing Lab.

Wildfire Smoke & Early Health Warnings

This CISESS Seed Grant Project is to develop a wildfire smoke early-warning system using Earth observations, modelled data, and ground measurements to enable timely deployment of clinical support resources to high-risk areas in Maryland.

Latent Heat Profiles

The goal of this CISESS Seed Grant Project is to demonstrate the feasibility of retrieving latent heating profiles of the atmospheric column using passive microwave satellite observations.

Daily High-Res Vegetation Maps

This CISESS Seed Grant Project focuses on balancing the spatial resolution of LEO satellites and the temporal resolution of GEO satellites to produce daily high-resolution vegetation datasets (10–30m).

A Stream Water Temperature Model

This CISESS Seed Grant Project will develop a Basic Model Interface (BMI) for stream water temperature modules, enabling seamless integration with NOAA’s Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Framework (NextGen).

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Hugo_retrato_(2016) How can we best exploit satellite information for improving weather applications? What is needed to create consistent long term records of satellite products? What are the research needs to ensure we extract optimal information from future satellites sensors?

These questions lie at the core of CISESS mission of supporting NOAA’s ability to use satellite observations and Earth System models to advance its mission. Our people, research scientists and research engineers along with academic personnel, strive to make certain that our research is transferred to NOAA operations. We also believe in the need of developing and maintaining interactions with a broad community. Outreach, education, training, and literacy activities are part of our vision for a successful return to society of the confidence they have entrusted us.

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Featured News

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

CISESS Announces 2025 Seed Grants

Deputy Director Hugo Berbery has just announced the CISESS Seed Grants to be funded in 2025. While four projects have been funded for the last four years, this year CISESS will have five Seed Grants for the first time. In addition, two prior seed grants, Hu Yang's Remote Sensing Lab and Guangyang Fan's 3D Virtual Reality Weather Maps, have now been given permanent funding.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters

The Resilience Inference Measurement (RIM) model was developed to quantify resilience to natural disasters like fires and hurricanes. In this paper, CISESS Scientists Wenhui Wang, Yan Bai, Xi Shao, Sirish Uprety and Hong-Lie Qiu introduce an approach that integrates observations from several satellite platforms so that a recovery assessment can be made more quickly.

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