{"id":852,"date":"2023-02-14T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T23:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/?p=852"},"modified":"2023-02-14T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T23:15:08","slug":"nasas-satellites-help-with-turkey-syria-earthquake-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/news\/nasas-satellites-help-with-turkey-syria-earthquake-response\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Satellites Help with Turkey, Syria Earthquake Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE – Feb. 14:\u00a0<\/strong>NASA has confirmed that groups in Turkey have been sent\u00a0FINDER\u00a0units — a NASA spinoff technology that can detect people trapped under rubble — from SpecOps Group Inc. of Sarasota, Florida. Short for Finding Individuals for Disaster Emergency Response, the units were on the way as of Feb. 12.\u00a0 NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, worked with the Department of Homeland Security to construct the original prototypes before licensing them to SpecOps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Feb. 10:\u00a0<\/strong>Following the magnitude\u00a07.8 and 7.5 earthquakes\u00a0that struck southern Turkey and western Syria Feb. 6, NASA is working to share its aerial views and data from space in ways that can aid relief and recovery workers in the region, as well as improve its ability to model and predict such events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNASA\u2019s hearts and minds are with those impacted by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria,\u201d said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. \u201cNASA is our eyes in the sky, and our teams of experts are working hard to provide valuable information from our Earth-observing fleet to first responders on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of NASA\u2019s key capabilities is an expertise with synthetic aperture radar, or SAR. Viewing Earth in all weather conditions, day or night, SAR is used to measure how the ground moves and built landscape changes after this type of event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenes collected before and after the earthquake were used by a team of scientists from the\u00a0Earth Observatory of Singapore\u00a0and NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to create something called a\u00a0damage proxy map\u00a0for Turkey. These maps compare before and after radar images of a given event to see how the landscape has changed. Members of the\u00a0disasters program area\u00a0of NASA\u2019s Earth Science Applied Sciences, as well as it national and international collaborators, make such maps available to a wide range of organizations such as the U.S. State Department, the California Seismic Safety Commission, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief, and the World Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While NASA members actively participate in coordination calls hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), they also provide observations and maps via their\u00a0Disaster Mapping Portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNASA takes seriously its obligation to support open science, and make information widely accessible,\u201d said Lori Schultz, NASA\u2019s disaster coordinator for this earthquake. \u201cWe don\u2019t know everyone who is using this information or how, but we are fortunate to have heard back from a few groups. For instance, the World Central Kitchen \u2013 which is providing food to those who\u2019ve been displaced \u2013 have let us know they make use of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to assessing damage, NASA scientists use space- and ground-based observations to improve the agency\u2019s ability to understand related events that cascade from the original natural disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By making use of data from the\u00a0Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition\u00a0program, which acquires observations from commercial satellites to help with NASA\u2019s research goals, as well as from NOAA and international space agencies in Europe and Japan, scientists can spot areas that might be prone to increased landslide risks. Other satellites, such as\u00a0Suomi-NPP\u00a0and its nighttime lights observations can show the location of power outages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While not in use yet, NASA scientists are hoping to add a new tool to assess the aftermath of the quake. The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, or EMIT, instrument was launched to the International Space Station in July 2022. As part of its observations of the composition of material in Earth\u2019s atmosphere, it can assess methane emissions. Attached to the space station, EMIT\u2019s observation times and locations are dictated by the station\u2019s orbit. But when passing over the earthquake site, measurements of increased or new emissions could point to events not otherwise easily spotted from space.

\u201cRelief efforts include tracking cascading disasters, such as natural hazard-triggered technological disasters,\u201d said Shanna McClain, manager of NASA\u2019s Disaster Program. \u201cDamaged infrastructure and pipeline bursts are something we want to identify quickly to protect the health of people nearby.\u201d

EMIT\u2019s ability to help with such efforts are under evaluation, as part of NASA\u2019s constant attempt to improve its observations, models, and analyses. Other such work will continue over the weeks to come, as researchers take information from this event to improve their earthquake simulations \u2013 key research models that go into assessing how safe an area is right after a quake. For instance, the East Anatolian fault line that generated this earthquake intersects with others in the region. Better models of land motions around the fault can give scientists crucial insights on whether and where to expect aftershocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about NASA\u2019s disaster relief programs, visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/appliedsciences.nasa.gov\/what-we-do\/disasters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend you: El Curiosity de la NASA halla pistas sorprendentes sobre el pasado acuoso de Marte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: NASA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE – Feb. 14:\u00a0NASA has confirmed that groups in Turkey have been sent\u00a0FINDER\u00a0units — a NASA spinoff technology that can detect people trapped under rubble — from SpecOps Group Inc. of Sarasota, Florida. Short for Finding Individuals for Disaster Emergency Response, the units were on the way as of Feb. 12.\u00a0 NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[266,263,265,264],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}