11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
Satellite observations can provide critical insights before, during, and after disasters strike to help communities better understand, prepare for, and recover from disasters and extreme events around the world. However, awareness and use of these data are uneven across the disaster response and emergency management community.
NASA’s Earth Science Division’s Disasters Program aims to advance Earth science data use for supporting management decisions that prevent or mitigate the impacts of disasters. The Disasters Program has three elements: the Disasters Science to Action Portfolio of competitively-selected projects that conduct innovative research to address critical challenges in disaster management, the Disasters Response Coordination System that coordinates and mobilizes the Agency’s assets and expertise during disaster responses, and the Disasters Learning & Mapping Portal where freely available data products are provided in standardized geographic information systems (GIS) format to allow for easier integration into partners’ workflows. Through these elements, the NASA Disasters program builds awareness and access to Earth observation data and builds tools to help communities make informed decisions for disaster planning.
Using the vantage point of space, the disaster response and emergency management community can enhance decision making across the disaster cycle and apply actionable data to recover from disaster impacts and build resilient communities.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the NASA Disasters Program and its elements, provide case studies of how Earth observations have supported different facets of the disaster lifecycle, and highlight the innovative technologies and science NASA makes available to the disaster response community.
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| 4/2/2026 |    |
