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Friday, January 23, 2026

CISESS Land Product Scientists Honored by NESDIS

STAR held award celebrations on January 20 at which members of the STAR Land Product Development Science Team won the NESDIS Vision and Creativity “Future is Here Today” Award. Six of the seven-member team are CISESS Scientists: Corinne Carter, Jingjing Peng, Peng Yu, Yuling Liu, Yuan Zhou, and Zhen Song.

Friday, May 2, 2025

CISESS Shines at Maryland Day

On 26 April, the University of Maryland in College Park welcomed the public to its springtime open house. CISESS succeeded in introducing some of the cool research conducted by its scientists, delighting the public along the way.

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Downscaling of vegetation products

Apr 14, 2025 11:06 AM

CISESS Seed Grant: Developing High Spatiotemporal Resolution Vegetation Datasets from Multi-Sensor Satellite Observations for Enhanced Ecological and Agricultural Monitoring

This seed grant project focuses on balancing the spatial resolution of LEO satellites and the temporal resolution of GEO satellites to daily high-resolution vegetation datasets (10–30m). We will use a pre-calibrated Look-Up Tables for seamless integration of satellite observations and a a framework ready for operational deployment, aligning with NOAA's mission to deliver actionable Earth observation data.

Long-range transport of wildfire smoke

Apr 14, 2025 10:14 AM

CISESS Seed Grant: Wildfire Smoke Early Warning: Using Earth Observations to Improve Health Interventions

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. Such a system would have clear benefits to mitigate health care impacts as a result of wildfire smoke events. The alert system will be developed in partnership with UMD School of Medicine and UMD Institute for Health Computing (IHC).

Uganda

Aug 02, 2024 11:28 AM

CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang works to Mitigate Lightning Hazards in Uganda

CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang visited Uganda to help with the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems at Two Primary Schools in Kalangala.

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