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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.

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).

Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Workshop

At the 2025 RGBs Experts and Developers Workshop (1–3 April), CISESS Scientist Christopher Smith, presented a talk on “RGBs in Testbeds for U.S. Weather Offices."

Water Quality from Satellites

CISESS Scientist Ron Vogel taught a week-long class for water quality management professionals entitled “Viewing and Analyzing Ocean/Coastal Events and Water Quality Using Satellites”.

CISESS Interns are Hackathon Winners

CISESS Interns Damian Figueroa (left) and Samuel Wiggins (right) took home awards for their creative work at the Georgia Tech’s ImmerseGT Extended Reality (XR) Hackathon.

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Deputy Director's Welcome

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.

Explore our web site, find out what we do and please contact us with your suggestions for improving how we communicate our activities.

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Featured News

Thursday, April 17, 2025

CISESS Students Win Awards at Georgia Tech’s ImmerseGT XR Hackathon

CISESS Interns Damian Figueroa and Samuel Wiggins took home awards for their creative work at the Georgia Tech’s ImmerseGT XR Hackathon, XR stands for Extended Reality, which encompasses immersive technologies including Virtual Reality. Damian and Samuel are excited to bring their new ideas and skills back to the CISESS Virtual Proving Ground & Training Center (VPGTC), where they contribute to the development of XR-based geoscience educational games.

Monday, April 14, 2025

RGBs Recommendations for Weather Forecasting

At the 2025 Red-Green-Blue (RGBs) Experts and Developers Workshop (1–3 April), CISESS Scientist and Satellite Liaison to the NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) and Ocean Prediction Center (OPC), Christopher Smith, presented a talk on “RGBs in testbeds for U.S . Weather Offices.”

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