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AG ALERT: Better data key to informed water policy decisions Ag Alert News March 6, 2024 129By Christine Souza, from Ag Alert To adapt to climate extremes and become more water resilient in California, modernizing the...
DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: A new, rigorous assessment of OpenET accuracy for supporting satellite-based water management Elyse De Franco News January 17, 2024 537A new study offers a comprehensive multi-model, large-scale accuracy assessment of an operational satellite-based data system to compute evapotranspiration. By...
NASA/JPL: US-German satellites show California water gains after record winter NASA/JPL News June 7, 2023By NASA/JPL Early data shows the greatest net gain of water over the winter in nearly 22 years, but the...
AG ALERT: Researchers turn to drones, satellites to track water use Ag Alert News October 5, 2022Like many other researchers, environmental engineering professors Erin Hestir and Joshua Viers of the University of California, Merced, are trying...
EYES ON EARTH: Aquatic Ecosystems, ECOSTRESS, and the Delta smelt Maven Science Podcasts March 27, 2022 70From the USGS: The Earth observation data archived here have plenty of value to the study of aquatic ecosystems. Landsat...
CCST BRIEFING: Remote Sensing Technologies and Water Resilience Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and Features January 26, 2022 274Can we look to the sky to address California’s water challenges? As California continues to grapple with frequent drought and...
SCIENCE IN SHORT: Wall-to-Wall Sampling Via Remote Sensing Maven Science Podcasts February 12, 2021 59Invasive plants – the submerged and floating kind – clog nearly a third of the Delta’s waterways today. These alien...
NASA/JPL: Sierras lost water weight, grew taller during drought NASA/JPL News December 13, 2017Loss of water from Sierra Nevada rocks caused the California mountains to rise almost an inch during the recent drought....
Sacramento Delta Levees: Radar-based monitoring from 41,000 feet Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features September 17, 2015 653NASA’s Dr. Cathleen Jones discusses an ongoing pilot study that uses radar technology to monitor Delta levees Monitoring levees is...
NASA Radar Watches Over California’s Aging Levees NASA/JPL News April 1, 2014By NASA/JPL NASA works with California’s water managers to spot tiny signs of trouble in the Sacramento River delta levees,...
