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This version has been created for kids and educational purposes. || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019_print.jpg (1024x576) [86.8 KB] || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019_searchweb.png (320x180) [38.3 KB] || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019.tif (3840x2160) [1.8 MB] || ", "hits": 377 }, { "id": 30971, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30971/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2018-05-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landslide Risk After Fire", "description": "NASA satellite observations of the Thomas fire and the burned area in it's aftermath can be combined with precipitation data to produce maps of landslide risk. || Smoke from the Thomas Fire, December 5, 2017. || thomas_fire_eob91379_print.jpg (1024x574) [116.1 KB] || thomas_fire_eob91379.png (4104x2304) [6.4 MB] || thomas_fire_eob91379_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.3 KB] || thomas_fire_eob91379_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || thomas_fire_eob91379.hwshow [208 bytes] || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 4631, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4631/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-04-26T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Landslide Hazard Assessment Model (LHASA) with Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) data", "description": "Landslides occur when an environmental trigger like an extreme rain event, often a severe storm or hurricane, and gravity's downward pull sets soil and rock in motion. 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This model uses surface susceptibility (including slope, vegetation, road networks, geology, and forest cover loss) and satellite rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to provide moderate to high “nowcasts.” This visualization shows the landslide nowcast results leveraging nearly two decades of Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) rainfall over 2001-2016 to identify a landslide climatology by month at a 1 km grid cell. The average nowcast values by month highlight the key landslide hotspots, such as the Southeast Asia during the monsoon season in June through August and the U.S. Pacific Northwest in December and January. Overlaid with these nowcasts values are a Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) was developed with the goal of identifying rainfall-triggered landslide events around the world, regardless of size, impact, or location. The GLC considers all types of mass movements triggered by rainfall, which have been reported in the media, disaster databases, scientific reports, or other sources. The visualization shows the distribution of landslides each month based on the estimated number of fatalities the event caused. The GLC has been compiled since 2007 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and contains over 11,000 reports and growing. A new project called the Community the Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository, or COOLR, provides the opportunity for the community to view landslide reports and contribute their own. The goal of the COOLR project is to create the largest global public online landslide catalog available and open to for anyone everyone to share, download, and analyze landslide information. 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Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. But NASA researchers have updated the first publicly available Global Landslide Catalog (GLC), based on media reports and online databases that bring together many sources of information on landslides that have occurred. The GLC has been compiled since 2007 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and was originally released in 2010. Around 10,804 landslides are noted in the catalog for the period 2007-2017. This wealth of data gives scientists a starting point to analyze where, how and why landslides are likely to occur. The catalog is currently available here: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/global-landslide-catalog-exportRecently, a new model was developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. A global Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness (LHASA) has been developed to provide an indication of where and when landslides may be likely around the world every 30 minutes. This model uses surface susceptibility (including slope, vegetation, road networks, geology, and forest cover loss) and satellite rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to provide moderate to high “nowcasts.” For more information about this new model, please visit: New NASA Model Finds Landslide Threats in Near Real-Time During Heavy Rains\" || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 12897, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12897/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-22T10:30:00-04:00", "title": "New NASA Model Finds Landslide Threats in Near Real-Time During Heavy Rains", "description": "A new model has been developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. 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EPOCH will conduct up to six 24-hour science flights using the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. Three of the flights are being supported through a partnership with the NOAA UAS Program. Data will be collected using three instruments (EXRAD, HAMSR, and AVAPS) aboard the aircraft that will map out the 3-D patterns of temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, and wind speed - key factors that influence hurricane behavior. NASA scientists use a combination of ground, modeled, and satellite data to re-create multi-dimensional pictures of hurricanes and other major storms in order to study complex atmospheric interactions. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 12255, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12255/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-23T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...", "description": "Complete transcript available.Music: Letting Go by Mario Lauer, 24 Dimensions by Christian Telford, David Travis Edwards, Matthew St. Laurent, and Robert Anthony Navarro || Monsoon_narrated_1080_30fps_youtube.00749_print.jpg (1024x576) [184.2 KB] || Monsoon_narrated_1080_30fps_youtube.00749_searchweb.png (180x320) [92.7 KB] || Monsoon_narrated_1080_30fps_youtube.00749_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || monsoonnarrfull.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || monsoonnarrfull.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || 12255_Monsoons_1080_30fps.mp4 (1920x1080) [406.7 MB] || 12255_Monsoons_1080_60fps.mp4 (1920x1080) [409.0 MB] || 12255_Monsoons_4k_60fps_prores.mov (3840x2160) [27.8 GB] || 12255_Monsoons_4k30fps_youtube.mp4 (3840x2160) [1008.7 MB] || 12255_Monsoons_4k_60fps.webm (3840x2160) [131.9 MB] || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 20226, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20226/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2015-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landslide Animation", "description": "Landslide animation - rotational landslide. || landslide_seq_00660_print.jpg (1024x576) [113.4 KB] || landslide_seq_00660_searchweb.png (320x180) [59.1 KB] || landslide_seq_00660_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || Landslide_final_59fps_prores.webm (1920x1080) [1.8 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_60p (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || Landslide_final_59fps_h264.mov (1920x1080) [605.4 MB] || Landslide_final_59fps_prores.mov (1920x1080) [907.5 MB] || landslide.mp4 (1920x1080) [14.9 MB] || ", "hits": 144 }, { "id": 11860, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11860/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-04-21T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA On Air: NASA Landslide Catalog Now Available (4/21/2015)", "description": "LEAD: A new website now totals up landslide occurrences and resulting deaths across the U.S. and the world.1. NASA and other researchers have tracked global news and web reports of rain-caused landslides since 2007.2. Between 2007 and 2013, more than 20,000 people have died in 6,000 landslides - an average of 2,500 per year.3. 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Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. But NASA researchers have updated the first publicly available Global Landslide Catalog, based on media reports and online databases that bring together many sources of information on landslides that have occurred since 2007. The catalog, originally released in 2010, is still the only one of its kind.Around 6000 landslides are noted in the catalog. This wealth of data gives scientists a starting point to analyze where, how and why landslides are likely to occur. In particular, NASA researchers have begun to compare landslide occurrence with global rainfall data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.The catalog is currently available at: http://ojo-streamer.herokuapp.com/.Research: Spatial and temporal analysis of a global landslide catalog.Journal: Geomorphology, March 21, 2015.Link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X15001579.Here is the YouTube video. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 11855, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11855/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-04-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Instagram: Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space", "description": "Landslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. 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On a hot, dry summer day, the water level can drop as much as one inch because of evaporation. These three false-color images were captured in 1972, 1989, and 2011 by Landsat satellites. Deep waters are blue or dark blue, while brighter blues indicate shallow waters or salt ponds. Green indicates sparsely vegetated lands. Denser vegetation appears bright red. The ancient Egyptians used salts from the Dead Sea for mummification, fertilizers, and potash (a potassium-based salt). In the modern age, sodium chloride and potassium salts culled from the sea are used for water conditioning, road de-icing, and the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. The expansions of massive salt evaporation projects are clearly visible over the span of 39 years. || ", "hits": 132 }, { "id": 11102, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11102/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Faces of GPM", "description": "Learn about the exciting and diverse team that studies precipitation at NASA. Watch interviews with scientists and engineers to get a face-to-face perspective on careers in science and technology. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 11099, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11099/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Week: Career Spotlights", "description": "Join us during Earth Science Week 2012 to meet an incredible group of NASA Earth Explorers — from scientists and engineers, to multimedia producers, educators and writers.Find out about their careers, why and how they study the planet, and what their typical days are like. From video interviews to blog posts and more, there will be a variety of multimedia activities that will allow Explorers to tell their stories. Have questions of your own? Participate in live Twitter interviews and Google+ Hangouts held throughout the week, as well as during a radio interview and webinar in Spanish.On October 18, learn about the many contributions of women at NASA to Earth science as part of Female Geoscientists Day.The 2012 NASA ESW website will be your one-stop-source for Earth science careers and resources during ESW and beyond. There you will find a collection of articles, information about events, links to blog posts, transcripts of Twitter interviews, and educational products in English and Spanish. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 11091, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11091/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-27T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Applications", "description": "Water is fundamental to life on Earth. Knowing where and how much rain and snow falls globally is vital to understanding how weather and climate impact both our environment and Earth's water and energy cycles, including effects on agriculture, fresh water availability, and responses to natural disasters. Since rainfall and snowfall vary greatly from place to place and over time, satellites can provide more uniform observations of rain and snow around the globe than ground instruments, especially in areas where surface measurements are difficult. GPM's next-generation global precipitation data will lead to scientific advances and societal benefits in the following areas: Improved knowledge of the Earth's water cycle and its link to climate change New insights into precipitation microphysics, storm structures and large-scale atmospheric processes Better understanding of climate sensitivity and feedback processes Extended capabilities in monitoring and predicting hurricanes and other extreme weather events Improved forecasting capabilities for natural hazards, including floods, droughts and landslides. Enhanced numerical prediction skills for weather and climate Better agricultural crop forecasting and monitoring of freshwater resources.For more information and resources please visit the Precipitation Measurement Missions web site. || ", "hits": 30 } ] }