Success Stories

SSAI computer scientist Maura Tokay set out to predict the crop yield for corn, wheat, and soybeans using meteorological data in conjunction with machine learning predictive models in order to determine the importance of each weather variable on crop yield outcome.

With the onset of lockdowns and the inability to congregate, SSAI had to quickly pivot our education and outreach approach. So, instead of bringing the public from their homes to our events, we brought the events into the public’s homes. *Photo attribute: Elisa.garcia.1994, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

GIBS team migrates operations to a new cloud-based production system to accommodate the future growth of its visualization archive and service offerings.

SSAI-led EMS team successfully upgraded major, multi-component system to meet increasing demand for processing and power.

SSAI’s engineering and operations teams began a vigorous coordination program with corresponding customer IT teams to remotely maintain standard operations when the first sign of an impending pandemic arose.

An SSAI-led team successfully employed “loon” balloons to obtain stratospheric observations

SSAI Digital Analytics team successfully transitions nearly 100 projects among 16 science data and service providers from traditional website metrics collection to digital analytics.

SSAI scientist Dr. Ranjay M. Shrestha, NASA’s Black Marble product is actively used by multiple government and scientific agencies to measure the impacts of natural disasters on the electricity grid, monitor the effects of conflict and population displacement, map out urbanization, track electrification and light pollution, and understand activity patterns within human settlements.

SSAI scientists are an integral part of Ozone research and many have work beside NASA colleagues who specialize in it.

SSAI- and ASRC-staffed Worldview Team enhanced more than 900 image products from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS).