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2014 |
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| 12/10/14 | Attending the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting? Take along the schedule of ESTO-affiliated activities |
| 12/09/14 | ESTO is pleased to announce 24 new projects awarded under the 2014 solicitation of the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program |
| 12/03/14 | The 2014 ESTO Annual Report is now available + Get the PDF |
| 12/02/14 | New NASA airborne campaigns selected under the 2014 Earth Venture Suborbital solicitation have significant ESTO heritage |
| 11/14/14 | Presentations from the the 2014 Earth Science Technology Forum are now available online |
| 10/13/14 | Join us in two weeks for the 2014 Earth Science Technology Forum, 10/28-10/30 in Leesburg, VA. |
| 09/15/2014 | HAMMR, a new microwave radiometer for humidity measurements, completes its first engineering flights |
| 09/12/2014 | ESTO is pleased to announce 11 awards for the 2014 Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) program solicitation (element A.41 within the NASA 2014 ROSES omnibus research announcement). |
| 08/27/2014 | New Climate-studying Imager Makes Successful Balloon Flight |
| 08/19/2014 | New antenna for the Cloud Radar System flies for the first time in the Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEX) airborne campaign. ESTO-funded HIWRAP instrument also takes part. |
| 08/14/2014 | GPS sensor web project demonstrates early warning potential for a variety of natural hazards |
| 08/12/2014 | ESTO's Michael Pasciuto featured in this Earthzine article: "A Hitchhiker's Guide to CubeSats" |
| 07/30/2014 | ESTO's newest in-space technology validation project – the IceCube cubesat – featured in this story on NASA.gov |
| 07/29/2014 | The ASCENDS CarbonHawk Experiment Simulator (ACES) – a new high-altitude CO2 column instrument – completes successful engineering test flights. |
| 07/24/2014 | The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne campaign is in the news again with this feature story on the HIRAD instrument. HIRAD includes an RFI detector subsystem developed in the Instrument Incubator Program. Learn more about the many ESTO technologies flying on HS3. |
| 07/03/2014 | A new high-altitude CO2 column instrument – the ASCENDS CarbonHawk Experiment Simulator (ACES) – is making its first flights onboard the NASA Falcon |
| 06/30/2014 | First Flights for EcoSAR, a New Instrument to Study Carbon-Rich Ecosystems |
| 06/24/2014 | Rama Nemani of the NASA Earth Exchange (and ESTO investigator) announces the NASA OpenNEX Challenges. Set to go live on July 1, these public challenges offer $60,000 in awards for innovative ways to use Earth science data. |
| 06/18/2014 | The ESTO Technology Portfolio has been updated with new 2014 charts for active investments and recent graduates |
| 06/17/2014 | ESTO is pleased to announce the 2014 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2014) – to be held October 28 - 30 at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA. Visit the forum website for more information |
| 05/02/2014 | ESTO's Charles Norton interviewed by Trajectory Magazine for this article on "The Maturation of Smallsats" |
| 04/22/2014 | In this segment from Showetime's "Years of Living Dangerously" documentary, actor Harrison Ford talks with ESTO investigator Rama Nemani and Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland about NASA Earth science. + More on the global forest cover study featured in the segment |
| 04/14/2014 | The 2014 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST)) solicitation is now open as element A.41 of the 2014 NASA ROSES omnibus announcement. Notices of Intent are requested by May 21 and proposals are due July 11, 2014. |
| 04/09/2014 | ESTO-funded CO2 airborne Lidar instrument, which had its first flights in late March, featured in this Hampton Roads Daily Press article |
| 04/01/2014 | Following the 3/28 La Habra earthquake, ESTO’s Quakesim project is again in the spotlight. + NASA feature story on Quakesim’s La Habra model + Fox News interview with Co-investigator John Rundle |
| 03/28/2014 | ESTO-funded Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) instrument featured in this NASA news story |
| 03/27/2014 | COVE – the CubeSat On-Board processing Validation Experiment – successfully performs initial demonstrations in space, commences long-term technology validation |
| 02/26/2014 | Reminder: Proposals for the 2013 Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) solicitation are due 4/2/2014. |
| 02/07/2014 | Soil Moisture Sensor Web Provides a Peek at the Drought in California |
| 01/30/2014 | SPACENEWS features the RAVAN project – a cubesat technology demonstration for Earth radiation measurements – in this 1/20/14 article: Tiny Satellites May Answer Big Climate Change Question |
| 01/24/2014 | ESTO is pleased to announce the awards for the 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) Solicitation (element A.40 within the NASA 2013 ROSES omnibus research announcement). |
| 01/17/2014 | An interview with ESTO-PI Andrea Donnellan on the 20th anniversary of the Northridge earthquake: A JPL Scientist Reflects on L.A.'s Last Big Quake |
| 01/07/2014 | RAVAN – a new cubesat technology demonstration project for Earth radiation measurements – featured in this news item from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab |
| 2013 |
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| 12/19/2013 | Congratulations to Marin Mlynczak on winning the "Best Article Award" in Earthzine's 2013 Earth Science Technology Showcase. |
| 12/19/2013 | ESTO-investigator Yehuda Bock and his natural hazard sensor web project featured in a JPL news article: "NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems" |
| 12/17/2013 | The 2013 Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) solicitation is now open as element A.41 of the NASA ROSES omnibus solicitation. NOIs are requested by 2/7/2014, and proposals are due 4/2/2014. |
| 12/16/2013 | Two CubeSat Technology Demonstrations Launch in December |
| 12/13/2013 | Land Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) featured on the American Geophysical Union blog. |
| 12/03/2013 | ESTO and Earthzine are pleased to announce the 2013 Earth Science Technology Showcase, an online presentation of selected technology developments for Earth science. + Check out Earthzine's conversation with George Komar, the ESTO Program Director |
| 12/02/2013 | Attending the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting? Get the schedule of ESTO-affiliated presentations (1MB, PDF) |
| 11/26/2013 | Two Space Dynamics Lab temperature reference instruments, launched 11/25 on the Russian Progress 53, are bound for ISS for space testing and validation. |
| 11/25/2013 | The 2013 ESTO Annual Report is now available + Get the PDF |
| 11/22/2013 | Congratulations to PI Tom Flatley on being named "Innovator of the Year" by NASA Goddard. Read more about his work developing SpaceCube data processors. |
| 11/01/2013 | VIDEO: ESTO investigator Bryan Blair talks about his LVIS instrument, which will measure ice in Greenland with Operation IceBridge |
| 10/31/2013 | New Climate-studying Imager Makes First Balloon Flight |
| 10/21/2013 | Two ESTO PIs – Chris Mattmann and Andrea Donnellan – featured in a 10/17 NASA news story on the 'Big Data' initiative at JPL |
| 10/18/2013 | Deployable mast design chosen for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission |
| 09/23/2013 | ESTO principal investigator, Simone Tanelli, featured in a Climate Desk video report about the NASA SEAC4RS airborne campaign |
| 09/18/2013 | ESTO-funded GEO-TASO instrument joins NASA's DISCOVER-AQ airborne campaign to study air quality over Texas. |
| 08/08/2013 | The AirSWOT instrument had its first flights earlier this year on board NASA's King Air aircraft. |
| 08/02/2013 | HIWRAP instrument featured for upcoming flights with HS3: Seeing Which Way the Wind Blows: New Doppler Radar Takes Flight on This Summer's HS3 Mission |
| 07/26/2013 | This NASA news story features PI Matthew McGill and his Cloud-Aerosol Transport System(CATS) instrument, scheduled to go to the International Space Station in 2014. |
| 07/19/2013 | The Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GEO-TASO) instrument had its first flights this week onboard the NASA Falcon aircraft. +Read More |
| 06/27/2013 | The ESTO Technology Portfolio has been updated with new 2013 charts for active investments and recent graduates. |
| 06/25/2013 | Two ESTO instruments – HAMSR and HIRWAP – featured in Earthzine article: "Global Hawks: Unmanned Aircraft in Hurricane Science" |
| 06/04/2013 | Read the feature artice on ESTO ("ESTO: Benefiting Earth Science through Technology") in the May/June 2013 Issue of The Earth Observer |
| 05/30/2013 | The 2013 campaign of the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission will feature a second Global Hawk packed with ESTO technologies. + ESTO technologies Enabling HS3 |
| 05/23/2013 | Now available: Questions and Answers from the May 15th preproposal bidder’s conference for the 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) solicitation |
| 05/17/2013 | Recent ESTO InVEST award featured in NASA.gov story: Team Wins Cubesat Berth to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements |
| 05/14/2013 | The preproposal bidder’s conference for the 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) solicitation will be held on 5/15/2013, at 1:00 PM eastern time. Access information is available here. + 5/15 UPDATE: Bidders' Conference Presentation (PDF) |
| 05/03/2013 | Awards announced for the 2012 In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies (InVEST) solicitation (element A.48 of the 2012 NASA ROSES omnibus research announcement) |
| 04/25/2013 | PI Robert Green and the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument featured in a NASA story on the HyspIRI airborne campaign |
| 04/23/2013 | Extreme Storm and Flooding Forecasts Improved by Sensor Network |
| 04/16/2013 | The 2013 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) solicitation is now open as element A.40 of the 2013 NASA Research Announcement Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) omnibus announcement. A pre-proposal bidder’s conference will be held on May 15, 2013, at 1:00 PM eastern time. Visit the IIP 2013 solicitation notice for more. Notices of Intent are requested by May 31, 2013, and proposals are due July 15, 2013. |
| 04/12/2013 | PI Stanley Sander and the PanFTS instrument featured on The Weather Channel (How Big Cities Warm the Planet, 4/4/13). |
| 04/04/2013 | ESTO-sponsored Synthetic Aperture Radar flies on month-long expedition over the U.S. Gulf Coast, Arizona, and Central and South America. + 4/4/13 NASA Image of the day from flight over the Napo River in Ecuador and Peru |
| 03/22/2013 | Congratulations to ESTO Principal Investigator Tom Flatley on receiving the 2012 American Astronautical Society William Randolph Lovelace II Award for outstanding contributions to space science and technology. |
| 03/21/2013 | In response to the Federal budget cuts of March 1 (Sequestration), ESTO has cancelled the 2013 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2013), with plans to renew the annual event in 2014. |
| 03/15/2013 | PI Stanley Sander featured in an Atlantic Cities article on the Megacities Carbon Project in L.A., which utilizes his PanFTS instrument at the California Lab for Atmospheric Remote Sensing. |
| 03/13/2013 | New, open source software - the InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE) - to aid in disaster research and time-series imaging |
| 03/11/2013 | AirSWOT (an airborne water surface topography instrument) is in the news for first flights that began 3/7: + OurAmazingPlanet article + Video from 1/25 NASA Dryden social media open house |
| 03/05/2013 | Yehuda Bock's ESTO project featured in a Scripps Institution for Oceanography news article: Hybrid GPS-Seismic System Aims to Accelerate Earthquake Hazard Response |
| 02/04/2013 | The Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) is currently flying on the ER-2 as part of the NASA Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX). + More on AirMSPI |
| 02/01/2013 | Join us at the GEOSS Future Products Workshop (March 26-28, Silver Spring, MD) on interoperable data systems and on-demand data products. |
| 01/30/2013 | Article by ESTO PI Chris Mattmann – A Vision for Data Science – featured in 1/24/13 issue of Nature (Vol. 493, Issue 7433) |
| 01/23/2013 | Registration for the 2013 Earth Science Technology Forum is now open. Visit the forum website. |
| 01/22/2013 | Congratulations to Principal Investigator Andrea Donnellan on being elected to the AGU Council (President Elect, Nonlinear Geophysics Focus Group) |
| 01/15/2013 | ESTO is pleased to announce the 2013 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2013) – to be held June 18 - 20 at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA. Visit the forum website for more information. |
| 01/04/2013 | Attending the 2013 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting? Be sure to stop by the ESTO table at the NASA exhibit. |
| 2012 |
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| 12/10/2012 | TEMPO, the Recently-Selected Earth Venture Instrument for Daytime Pollution Monitoring, Enabled by Key Early Technology Investments |
| 11/30/2012 | Attending the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting? Get the list of ESTO-affiliated presentations (1.5MB, PDF) |
| 11/16/2012 | The 2012 ESTO Annual Report is now available to download (PDF) |
| 11/09/2012 | Airborne Instrument Collects Aerosol Data While Aiding New NASA System |
| 10/15/2012 | October 14-20 is Earth Science Week. |
| 10/01/2012 | New Interferometer (GLISTIN-A) to Aid In Ice Topography Measurements |
| 09/28/2012 | NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission features several ESTO-funded technologies, including the HIWRAP and HAMSR instruments. |
| 09/27/2012 | High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL-2) instrument is participating in the Department of Energy's Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) airborne campaign. |
| 09/20/2012 | ESTO-funded QuakeSim Project named co-winner of the 2012 NASA Software of the Year Award |
| 09/13/2012 | The 2012 In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies (InVEST) solicitation is now open as element A.48 of the 2012 NASA ROSES omnibus research announcement Notices of intent are due 10/17/2012 and proposals are due by 11/27/2012. |
| 09/07/2012 | The updated 2012 ESTO Technology Portfolio is now online |
| 08/30/2012 | Congratulations to the ESTO PIs who received 2012 NASA Agency Honor Awards |
| 08/17/2012 | ESTO launches a new, updated website. We appreciate your comments and feedback: email the webmaster |
| 08/17/2012 | ESTO-funded RTIMS memory module arrives safely on Mars onboard the Curiosity Rover, supports ChemCam instrument. + Read More + ESTO's 2009 feature on RTIMS |
| 08/10/2012 | Improving Land Surface and Weather Predictions using Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Tools |
| 07/27/2012 | Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES) Successfully Completes First Test Flights. |
| 07/25/2012 | ESTO PI Temilola Fatoyinbo receives 2011 Presidential Early Career Award. |
| 07/19/2012 | ESTO PI, Rama Nemani, featured in KQED Public Radio story: "Satellites Helping Save Water on California Farms" |
| 07/05/2012 | ESTO project making progress toward a Lidar instrument for O2 remote sensing. |
| 06/20/2012 | Congratulations to the Univ. of Michigan team (led by former ESTO PI, Chris Ruf) for the selection of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) as a NASA Earth Venture mission. |
| 06/15/2012 | UAVSAR Airborne Radar to Study Icelandic Ice Caps |
| 06/12/2012 | Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM) makes its first airborne flight. |
| 06/05/2012 | ESTO principal investigator Gerry Heymsfield and his brother Andy, an NCAR scientist, featured in a NASA story about their work on the 2010 GRIP campaign. |
| 06/01/2012 | Next Generation AVIRIS Instrument Completes Successful First Flight. |
| 05/30/2012 | Congratulations to Jacqueline Le Moigne, recipient of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's 12th annual Excellence in Information Science and Technology Award. |
| 05/16/2012 | ESTO-funded project on climate model fusion featured in a press release from Ohio State University. |
| 05/11/2012 | Attending IGARSS2012? Be sure to add these ESTO chaired sessions to your agenda: TH2.11, TH3.11 and WE1.13. |
| 04/26/2012 | Andrea Donnellan, the principal investigator on the QuakeSim project at JPL, was featured in an America Now video on earthquake preparedness. |
| 04/13/2012 | The 2012 Earth Science Technology Forum has been cancelled. ESTO plans to renew this annual forum in June 2013. |
| 03/26/2012 | Laser System on GRACE Follow-On to Measure Earth’s Gravity as Never Before. |
| 03/19/2012 | The venue for the 2012 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2012)has moved to Baltimore, MD. The forum dates remain the same (June 26-28). Visit the forum website for more information. |
| 03/05/2012 | Wondering what the future might hold for Earth science? Check out the recently-updated Earth Science Vision 2030 movie. |
| 02/27/2012 | ESTO-Funded Doppler Wind Lidar Maps Potential Wind Farm Sites off Virginia Coast. |
| 02/15/2012 | Awards announced for the 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation (element A.41 within the NASA 2011 ROSES omnibus research announcement). |
| 02/07/2012 | A memorial service for Dr. Greg Leptoukh, a friend and an ESTO PI, will be held 3-5 pm on Thursday 2/9/12 at Goddard, Building 8. More about Greg and his legacy here. |
| 01/20/2012 | ESTO is pleased to announce the 2012 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2012) – to be held June 26-28, 2012, in Orlando, FL. Visit the forum website for more information. |
| 01/19/2012 | The Airborne Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (APR-2) – developed in the first IIP solicitation in 1998 – to participate in the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission’s Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) field campaign. |
| 01/12/2012 | Attending the 2012 AMS Annual Meeting? Join us for the 12th Presidential Forum featuring George Komar, ESTO's Program Director, as well as for the ESTO-chaired sessions: TJ10 and TJ11. |
| 2011 |
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| 11/30/2011 | The 2011 ESTO Annual Report (8.9MB, PDF) is now available online. |
| 11/08/2011 | Attending the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting? Get this list of ESTO-funded and ESTO-affiliated presentations (1MB, PDF) and be sure to stop by the ESTO-chaired session: IN42A, "Information Systems Technology to Advance Remote Sensing and Data Productivity in the Next Decade." |
| 10/28/2011 | The M-Cubed CubeSat, containing the Cubesat On-board processing Validation Experiment (COVE), was successfully launched this morning as an auxiliary payload of the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite. + More on the M-Cubed CubeSat + More on COVE + More on the NPP launch |
| 10/27/2011 | A request for information (RFI) seeking Future Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies has been released. Responses are due by 12/31/2011. |
| 10/18/2011 | ESTO-funded Doppler Wind Lidar deployed to map potential wind farm sites off the Virginia coast.+ Read more on the Newport News Daily Press website. |
| 10/11/2011 | The 2011 NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding will be held October 19-21 in Mountain View, CA |
| 09/19/2011 | Emerging Lidar Technique Shows Promise for Simplified Wind Measurements |
| 09/19/2011 | Awards announced for the 2010 ESTO Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program ROSES Solicitation |
| 08/25/2011 | QuakeSim computer model provides estimate of permanent ground motions from the 8/23/11 magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia. |
| 08/22/2011 | Soil Moisture Sensing Controller and Optimal Estimator (SoilSCAPE) project featured in Univ. of Michigan blog and video. |
| 08/15/2011 | The 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation is now closed. Watch this space for announcement of awards. |
| 08/01/2011 | Proposals to the 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation are due Friday, August 12. |
| 07/19/2011 | Attending IGARSS 2011? Don't miss the ESTO-chaired session on Thursday, July 28: TH4.T10, Earth Observation Sensor Web |
| 07/6/2011 | The full proceedings from the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum (held June 21-23 in Pasadena, CA) are now online. Visit the Forum website for more information. |
| 06/13/2011 | The ESTO Technology Portfolio has been updated with new 2011 charts for active investments and recent graduates. |
| 06/06/2011 | Online registration for the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum will close on Friday, June 10. Visit the forum website for more information. |
| 06/06/2011 | The online Potential Bidders Conference for the 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation was held May 26. Presentation slides and notes from the conference are available here. |
| 05/13/2011 | An online Potential Bidders Conference (via WebEx) for the 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation has been scheduled for May 26. Watch this space for participation instructions. |
| 03/30/2011 | The 2011 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Solicitation was released on February 18, 2011, as element A.41 within the 2011 ROSES omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 6/17/2011 and proposals are due 8/12/2011. |
| 03/22/2011 | A full schedule of events is now available online for the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2011) – to be held June 21-23 in Pasadena, CA. Visit the forum website for more information and to register. |
| 03/16/2011 | A Featured paper in the 2/11/11 issue of Science includes examples from the ESTO-funded Multi-Sensor Data Synergy Advisor (MDSA) to illustrate importance of data and information provenance in data visualization tools. |
| 03/11/2011 | HAMSR, an airborne radiometer developed with ESTO funding to measure temperature, humidity and cloud structure, is participating in a field campaign to measure atmospheric ‘rivers’ of water vapor across the Pacific Ocean. |
| 02/07/2011 | Check out this video from Ball Aerospace (external link) on the ESTO-funded Electronically Steerable Flash Lidar (ESFL), a newinstrument for improved vegetation measurements. |
| 01/20/2011 | ESTO is pleased to announce the 2011 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2011) – to be held June 21-23 in Pasadena, CA. Visit the forum website for more information. |
| 01/03/2011 | Nine ESTO investigators featured in the December 2010 "Earth Observation Sensor Web" special issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS) |
| 2010 |
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| 12/07/2010 | The 2010 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Component Technology program is now open as element A.36 within the NASA ROSES-2010 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent are due 1/31/2011 and Proposals are due 3/15/2011. |
| 12/07/2010 | Awards announced for the 2010 ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) ROSES Solicitation |
| 11/23/2010 | The schedule of ESTO-affiliated presentations, posters, and sessions at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting is now available for download. (<1MB, PDF) |
| 11/22/2010 | The 2010 ESTO Annual Report is now available.(2.2 MB, PDF) |
| 10/26/2010 | Airborne-version of a novel, ESTO-funded polarization camera for aerosol characterization enjoys successful test flight on the NASA ER-2. |
| 10/20/2010 | Congratulations to Stefan Falke, recipient of the American Geophysical Union's 2010 Charles S. Falkenberg Award (and an ESTO Principal Investigator). |
| 10/20/2010 | Attending the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting? Be sure to stop by the ESTO-chaired sessions: IN41D and IN43B. Both sessions are titled "Information Systems Advances for Earth Science Decadal Survey Era Missions." |
| 10/08/2010 | 10 Years of ESTO Technology Investments are Enabling the CLARREO Mission |
| 09/28/2010 | NASA GRIP campaign – and ESTO Investigator, Simone Tanelli – featured in National Public Radio story |
| 09/02/2010 | Presentations from the the ESTO-chaired session – "Future NASA Earth Science Missions and Enabling Activities" – at SPACE2010 are now online. |
| 09/01/2010 | ESTO Principal Investigator Andrea Donnellan interviewed by Fox News for a story on California Earthquake research. |
| 08/20/2010 | Are you attending Space 2010? Visit the ESTO - chaired session: "Future NASA Earth Science Missions and Enabling Activities." (104-SPSC 5) |
| 08/12/2010 | The 2010 Science Plan for the NASA Science Mission Directorate is now available online. |
| 08/10/2010 | Five ESTO technologies selected for airborne integration by the Airborne Instrument Technology Transition (AITT) solicitation. |
| 07/23/2010 | Several ESTO Technologies To Support the 2010 GRIP Campaign |
| 07/22/2010 | The 2010 solicitation of the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program is now closed. Check the ESTO Solicitations page for award notifications. |
| 07/07/2010 | Presentations from the 2010 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2010) are available online. |
| 07/06/2010 | UAVSAR flights over Southern California and QuakeSim PI, Andrea Donnellan, featured in Los Angeles Times article on the magnitude 7.2 Easter earthquake. |
| 07/02/2010 | Proposals to the 2010 solicitation of the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (element A.35 within the NASA ROSES-2010 omnibus research announcement) are due on 7/21/2010. |
| 06/16/2010 | The online ESTO Technology Portfolio is now updated with 2010 charts for new and active investments as well as recent graduates. |
| 06/16/2010 | Are you registered for IGARSS 2010 in Hawaii? Be sure to attend these ESTO-chaired sessions: - TH1.L07: Innovative Options for Developing Future Earth Science Capabilities - TH2.L06: Laser Technology: Recent Developments and Lessons Learned |
| 06/08/2010 | Online registration for ESTF2010 closes on June 11. Walk-in registration will be available during the event. |
| 05/26/2010 | Abstracts, papers, and a full schedule of presentations are nowavailable online for the 2010 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2010). Visit the forum website for more information and to register. |
| 04/21/2010 | The full schedule of presentations is nowavailable online for the 2010 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2010). Visit the forum website for more information and to register. |
| 04/19/2010 | Notices of Intent (NOIs) for the 2010 solicitation of the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (element A.35 within the NASA ROSES-2010 omnibus research announcement) are due on 4/21/2010. Proposals are due 7/21/2010. |
| 03/10/2010 | An ESTO-funded project to develop a high-resolution topographic mapping lidar was featured in the 3/1/2010 SPIE Remote Sensing newsletter. |
| 02/22/2010 | ESTO is pleased to announce the 2010 Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF2010) – to be held June 22-24 in Arlington, VA. Visit the forum website for more information and to register. |
| 02/17/2010 | SensorWeb 3G Project is Generating Buzz and Benefiting Society. |
| 02/17/2010 | The 2010 solicitation for the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program is now open as element A.35 within the NASA ROSES-2010 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 4/21/2010 and Proposals are due 7/21/2010. |
| 02/1/2010 | UPDATE: UAVSAR captures its first image over Haiti |
| 01/26/2010 | ESTO-funded UAVSAR airborne radar to fly over Haiti and the Dominican Republic and create 3D maps of earthquake faults |
| 01/15/2010 | A November 2009 Scientific American article on semantic web advances features ESTO-funded PI, Peter Fox of Renssalaer Polytech Institute |
| 01/06/2010 | Did you miss the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting? Take a look at this short video [no longer avaliable online] that highlights the NASA booth and exhibits at the conference. |
| 2009 |
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| 12/08/2009 | Are you planning to attend the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting? Bring along this list of presentations and posters by ESTO Principal Investigators (80K, PDF file). |
| 11/23/2009 | Get a snapshot of ESTO performance and technology advances over the past year: the 2009 ESTO Annual Report is now available online. (2.9 MB PDF file) |
| 10/26/2009 | Memory module for Earth science applications to support the ChemCam instrument onboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover. |
| 10/13/2009 | ESTO-funded Quakesim project is helping investigate water main breaks in Los Angeles, CA. + Read the full story in the 10/9/09 LA Times. |
| 10/08/2009 | See how ESTO technology investments are supporting the NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey goals: Technologies Enabling the Decadal Survey |
| 08/21/2009 | A new flash LIDAR technology shows promise for vegetation canopy science measurements. |
| 08/14/2009 | The UAVSAR project was featured in an article in the August 12th edition of WIRED SCIENCE at Wired.com |
| 08/07/2009 | ESTO-funded Sensor Web Technology Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity |
| 07/02/2009 | Did you miss the NASA Earth System Science at 20 Symposium in June? The full proceedings, including presentations, are now available on the Symposium Website [no longer available online]. |
| 06/25/2009 | The UAVSAR instrument and advances in NASA earthquake prediction featured in two television interviews with QuakeSim Project PI, Andrea Donnellan. Watch the videos: + NBC Los Angeles + KTLA Los Angeles |
| 06/18/2009 | An innovative, ESTO-funded microwave detector has made the first direct measurements of lightning on Mars. Several Earth observing missions have also adopted the technology to detect and mitigate radio frequency interference. |
| 05/26/2009 | Two ESTO-funded airborne radar instruments – UAVSAR and GLISTIN – are on a two-month campaign over Greenland and Iceland to study the flow and topography of Arctic ice. + Learn More + Read the Campaign Blog |
| 04/03/2009 | The ESTO-funded PARIS (Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder) instrument departed March 30th aboard the NASA P-3B aircraft bound for Greenland as part of a month-long IceSAT Gap Filler Program campaign |
| 03/04/2009 | A Sensor Web Responds, and a New NASA Technology is Tested, After Crash of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River |
| 02/02/2009 | Two NASA Earth Science Technology Projects team up to participate in the 2008 Great Southern California ShakeOut |
| 2008 |
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| 12/16/2008 | Awards announced for the 2008 ESTO Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) ROSES Solicitation |
| 11/24/2008 | Congratulations to the Delay Tolerant Protocol (DTN) team for the 9th place finish in TIME Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2008 list. The ESTO-funded DTN was first demonstrated on the UK-DMC satellite in September. |
| 11/18/2008 | Awards announced for the 2008 ESTO Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) ROSES Solicitation |
| 11/12/2008 | Get a snapshot of ESTO performance and technology advances over the past year: the 2008 ESTO Annual Report (3.9 MB PDF file) is now available online. The report also features a special section for ESTO's 10-year anniversary. |
| 10/27/2008 | Are you planning to attend the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting? Join us for three ESTO-chaired sessions to learn more about emerging technologies for Earth science. |
| 09/02/2008 | The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program has closed. Information on award selections will be announced here. |
| 08/07/2008 | Congratulations to the Sensor Web 2.0 team and PI Dan Mandl for winning a 2008 R&D 100 Award |
| 08/05/2008 | The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program is now closed. Watch this space for information on award selections. |
| 07/02/2008 | The full proceedings from the 2008 Earth Science Technology Conference, held in late June, are now available online. |
| 06/19/2008 | The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program is open as element A.20 within the NASA ROSES-2008 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 7/15/2008 and Proposals are due 8/29/2008. |
| 06/16/2008 | ESTO AIST-funded sensor web investigators met in April to produce use cases that demonstrate the utility of sensor webs to the NRC decadal survey recommendations. A final report is now available online. |
| 06/16/2008 | Are you going to IGARSS2008? Be sure to stop by for the presentations and posters given by ESTO-funded projects. |
| 05/29/2008 | An ESTO AIST-funded autonomous sensor web project for in-situ sampling of volatile ice sheets was featured in a Georgia Institute of Technology Press Release. |
| 05/05/2008 | The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program is now open as element A.21 within the NASA ROSES-2008 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 5/30/2008 and Proposals are due 7/30/2008. |
| 04/29/2008 | Abstracts and the schedule of sessions are now available online for the 2008 Earth Science Technology Conference, June 24-26 in College Park, MD. Visit the conference website for more information and to register. |
| 04/16/2008 | Take a look at the new lithograph (4.6 MB, PDF) about the recent UAVSAR flights over Mount St. Helens. |
| 04/08/2008 | Award selections announced for the 2007 ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) ROSES Solicitation |
| 03/18/2008 | An ESTO-funded prototype instrument – the Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer (GIFS) – demonstrates capacity for improved cloud characterization in recent airborne test flights. |
| 03/06/2008 | ESTO is pleased to announce that the 2008 Earth Science Technology Conference will be held June 24-26 in College Park, MD. Visit the conference website for more information. |
| 01/29/2008 | An ESTO-funded project - "A Smart Sensor Web for Ocean Observation" - was featured in the 2007 Applied Physics Lab UW Biennial Report. Click here to download the excerpted article (1MB PDF file) |
| 01/22/2008 | ESTO-funded Raman Lidar instrument goes airborne to demonstrate new measurement capability and support the WAVES campaign. |
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| 12/17/2007 | Get a snapshot of ESTO performance and technology advances for the past year: download the 2007 ESTO Annual Report (1.7 MB PDF file). |
| 12/13/2007 | The 2007 solicitation for the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) is now closed. Watch this space for an announcement of award selections. |
| 11/09/2007 | Congratulations to the Adaptive Sensor Fleet team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for being recognized by R&D Magazine as one of the top 100 innovations of 2007. |
| 10/30/2007 | Join us at the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, 12/10 - 12/14. ESTO investigators and managers are participating in two oral sessions (IN23B and IN24A) and one poster session (IN21A). ESTO will also be represented at the NASA exhibit. |
| 07/25/2007 | The 2007 solicitation for the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program is now open as element A.26 within the NASA ROSES-2007 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 10/12/2007 and Proposals are due 12/12/2007. |
| 06/25/2007 | The 2007 NASA Science Technology Conference drew over 500 registrants. Click here to view the proceedings (presentations will be available online in early July). |
| 05/21/2007 | The 2007 NASA Science Technology Conference is almost here (June 19 - 21). Click here to visit the conference website. |
| 05/15/2007 | The UAVSAR project now has a dedicated mission website. Click here to visit the UAVSAR site (a Jet Propulsion Laboratory website). |
| 05/10/2007 | The Final Report from the AIST Sensor Web PI Meeting is now available. Visit the Meeting Website to download the report. |
| 03/08/2007 | The 2007 NASA Science Technology Conference will be held June 19-21 in College Park, MD. Visit the conference website to learn more and to register. |
| 02/22/2007 | ESTO held a Sensor Web PI Meeting in mid-February. Visit the Meeting Website to view presentations and learn about sensor web concepts. |
| 01/18/2007 | The Report from the Lidar Working Group is now available for download from the ESTO Advanced Planning page. |
| 01/03/2007 | ESTO-Funded NEXRAD in Space (NIS) project garners attention at the AGU Fall Meeting. Click here to read the NIS Press Release from AGU. |
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| 11/06/2006 | ESTO's 2006 Annual Report is now available online on the ESTO Overview page. |
| 11/01/2006 | ESTO will run three sessions at the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting. See the Events page for more information and links to ESTO sessions. |
| 10/10/2006 | A new poster, RTIMS: A Radiation Tolerant Intelligent Memory Stack, is now available for download (11x17, 2.2 MB, PDF). |
| 08/14/2006 | ESTO-funded, one million pixel infrared detector can see a broad range of wavelengths. |
| 07/26/2006 | Going to IGARSS 2006 in Denver? Stop by and visit us at the NASA exhibit (booth # 9-12). |
| 07/21/2006 | ESTO-funded sensor web project (SEAMONSTER: A Smart Sensor Web in Southeast Alaska) featured in Space News |
| 07/06/2006 |
Selections announced for the 2005 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) ROSES Solicitation |
| 06/01/2006 | Join ESTO at the 2006 Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC2006) |
| 05/25/2006 | ESTO-funded Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) array featured in Goddard Top Story. |
| 05/10/2006 | A new poster, Coupling High-Resolution Earth System Models, is now available for download (11x17, 2.5 MB, PDF). |
| 03/30/2006 | The ROSES 2005 has closed. Watch this space for updates on awards. |
| 01/17/2006 | Presentations from the Lidar Technology Requirement Community Forum are available at the forum website. |
| 01/16/2006 | The 2005 ESTO Annual Report (3.1MB PDF) is now available online. |
| 01/13/2006 | The 2006 Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC2006) will be held June 26 - 29 in College Park, MD. More details are forthcoming. |
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| 12/28/2004 | NASA Science Mission Project Columbia Proposals Due 14 January 2005. |
| 12/01/2004 | The ESTO funded NASA QuakeSim Project sees remarkable results from the Rundle-Tiampo earthquake forecast for California. |
| 11/03/2004 | The final report for a study on the Feasibility of Using Lithium-Ion Batteries for LEO Applications is now available. |
| 11/01/2004 | The 2004 IIP NASA Research Announcement (NRA) closed on November 2, 2004. Watch this space for awards announcement. |
| 09/17/2004 | The final report for a study on Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Chemistry Using LIDARS from GEO is now available. |
| 08/19/2004 | ESTO’s Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) has released the 2004 IIP NASA Research Announcement (NRA). Proposals are due November 2, 2004. |
| 08/19/2004 | AIST Mini-NRA Selections Announced |
| 07/19/2004 | Earth Science Markup Language (ESML) Demonstrated with Remote Sensing Data |
| 06/30/2004 | The Proceedings of the 2004 Earth Science Technology Conference are now available online. |
| 06/07/2004 | The 2004 Technology Capabilities Catalog (zip 16 MB) is now available for download. CDs of the catalog will be available at the 2004 Earth Science Technology Conference. |
| 05/13/2004 | ESTO Technology to Fly on Air Force XSS-11 |
| 05/13/2004 | Register online for the 2004 Earth Science Technology Conference in Palo Alto, CA, June 22 - 24. Online registration closes June 14. |
| 05/05/2004 | ESTO’s Advanced Information System Technologies (AIST) Program has released a Master NASA Research Announcement (NRA) and associated initial mini-solicitation for research proposals related to data mining and discovery technology mining. Proposals are due on July 6, 2004. |
| 04/15/2004 | The ESSAAC Technology Subcommittee (TSC) held it's Spring 2004 meeting on April 13 - 14. The Agenda and Presentations are available online for download. |
| 04/05/2004 | The Earth Science Vision 2030 Working Group Report is now available online as a PDF download. Printed copies will be available mid April. |
| 03/16/2004 | 2004 Earth Science Technology Conference to be held June 22 - 24, 2004, in Palo Alto, CA |
| 03/03/2004 | ESTO-Funded Technology to Aid in Shuttle's Return-to-Flight. |
| 02/20/2004 | CALL FOR PAPERS: ESTO is co-chairing a session entitled "Enabling Sensor and Platform Technologies for Spaceborne Remote Sensing" at the November, 2004, SPIE Environmental Remote Sensing Symposium in Honolulu. See the call for papers for complete information. Abstracts are due to SPIE by 4/26/04. |
| 02/02/2004 | ESTO is sponsoring a Community Forum on Laser Diode Arrays in Space-Based Applications March 2-3 in Arlington, VA. |
| 01/09/2004 | Deadline to submit input to the radar/radiometry forum extended to 1/12/04. |
| 01/08/2004 | An Independent review board has examined the anomalous event experienced by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter (GLAS), an instrument onboard the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and has released an Executive Summary (1.48 MB pdf). For information on ICESat go to http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/. |
| 01/08/2004 | Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) posters - paper and interactive - are now available. |
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| 11/19/2003 | NASA/ESTO community forum on radar/radiometry technology requirements is scheduled on January 8, 2004 in Washington, DC. |
| 09/10/2003 | ESTO technology utilized in partnership with the USDA Forest Service for the detection of wildland fire activity. |
| 08/15/2003 | Papers and presentations from the Special Sessions at IGARSS 2003 are now available. |
| 07/02/2003 | ESTO Launches ESTIPS, the Earth Science Technology Intergrated Planning System |
| 06/26/2003 | Third Annual Earth Science Technology Conference is a success |
| 03/31/2003 | Earth Science Technology Conference to be held June 24-26 |
| 03/14/2003 | AIST NRA-02-OES-04 Award Announced |
| 01/27/2003 | Earth Science Technology Planning Workshop, March 5-6, 2003 |
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| 05/21/2001 | Instrument Incubator Program NRA Bidders Conference to be held March 21, 8:30-12 at the Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland University College |
| 05/21/2001 | New Instrument Incubator Program 2001 NASA Research Announcement, released March 9th |
| 03/09/2001 | New Instrument Incubator Program NASA Research Announcement to be released on March 9th |
| 03/07/2001 | New Instrument Incubator Program(IIP) NASA Research Announcement release expected first week of March |
| 03/07/2001 | New Millenium Program/Earth Science Technology Office Technology Planning Workshop: January 23-24, 2001 |