NASA will soon increase its documentation of environmental and social changes on Earth. The space agency will achieve this by working in collaboration with its partners in Europe and Japan, namely ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). The collaboration will involve the use of all Earth-observing satellite data available so far. It will be used to document and expand resources and understand a wide range of changes taking place in the environment and human society around the world. The dashboard will cover six areas of focus – Atmosphere, Agriculture, Biomass, Water and Ocean, Cryosphere and Economy.
Expanded documentation will broaden the range of online resources available to us. This in turn will help in creating more data-driven stories. The information can also be used to locate relevant datasets.
Karen St. Germain, NASA The director of the Earth Science Division said in a Statement“With our partners esa And jaxaThis is another important step in bringing the latest information about our changing planet to the public in an accessible and convenient way, which can inform decisions and planning for communities around the world. ,
The dashboard aims to provide an accessible and objective resource to people such as public scientists and decision makers who are not yet familiar with satellite data. What NASA’s website says about the project, “It offers an accurate, objective and comprehensive view of our planet. Shows changes to the dashboard, using precise remote sensing observations EarthAir, land and water and their effects on human activities. Users can explore countries and regions around the world to see how indicators in specific locations change over time. ,
For this purpose, collaborators need to find satellite data streams that can be presented to simple and objective resources. The existing computing infrastructure should be updated for information sharing across agencies. The six focus areas will deal with different aspects of life on Earth.
The Atmosphere focus area looks at air pollution and climate change, while Agriculture will seek more insight into agricultural production, crop conditions and food supply. How to remove trees and plants Carbon dioxide from the environment? We will know this through the biomass focus area. The cryosphere will tackle the effects of global warming on sea ice. The water and ocean regions will explore the richness of this natural resource. The economy focus area will link the social and economic system of the earth with the environment.