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2009
10/26/2009	Memory module for Earth science applications to support the ChemCam instrument onboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover.
10/13/2009	ESTO-funded Quakesim project is helping investigate water main breaks in Los Angeles, CA. + Read the full story in the 10/9/09 LA Times.
10/08/2009	See how ESTO technology investments are supporting the NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey goals: Technologies Enabling the Decadal Survey
08/21/2009	A new flash LIDAR technology shows promise for vegetation canopy science measurements.
08/14/2009	The UAVSAR project was featured in an article in the August 12th edition of WIRED SCIENCE at Wired.com
08/07/2009	ESTO-funded Sensor Web Technology Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity
07/02/2009	Did you miss the NASA Earth System Science at 20 Symposium in June? The full proceedings, including presentations, are now available on the Symposium Website.
06/25/2009	The UAVSAR instrument and advances in NASA earthquake prediction featured in two television interviews with QuakeSim Project PI, Andrea Donnellan. Watch the videos: + NBC Los Angeles + KTLA Los Angeles
06/18/2009	An innovative, ESTO-funded microwave detector has made the first direct measurements of lightning on Mars. Several Earth observing missions have also adopted the technology to detect and mitigate radio frequency interference.
05/26/2009	Two ESTO-funded airborne radar instruments – UAVSAR and GLISTIN – are on a two-month campaign over Greenland and Iceland to study the flow and topography of Arctic ice. + Learn More + Read the Campaign Blog
04/03/2009	The ESTO-funded PARIS (Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder) instrument departed March 30th aboard the NASA P-3B aircraft bound for Greenland as part of a month-long IceSAT Gap Filler Program campaign
03/04/2009	A Sensor Web Responds, and a New NASA Technology is Tested, After Crash of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River
02/02/2009	Two NASA Earth Science Technology Projects team up to participate in the 2008 Great Southern California ShakeOut
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2008
12/16/2008	Awards announced for the 2008 ESTO Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) ROSES Solicitation
11/24/2008	Congratulations to the Delay Tolerant Protocol (DTN) team for the 9th place finish in TIME Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2008 list. The ESTO-funded DTN was first demonstrated on the UK-DMC satellite in September.
11/18/2008	Awards announced for the 2008 ESTO Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) ROSES Solicitation
11/12/2008	Get a snapshot of ESTO performance and technology advances over the past year: the 2008 ESTO Annual Report (3.9 MB PDF file) is now available online. The report also features a special section for ESTO's 10-year anniversary.
10/27/2008	Are you planning to attend the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting? Join us for three ESTO-chaired sessions to learn more about emerging technologies for Earth science.
09/02/2008	The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program has closed. Information on award selections will be announced here.
08/07/2008	Congratulations to the Sensor Web 2.0 team and PI Dan Mandl for winning a 2008 R&D 100 Award
08/05/2008	The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program is now closed. Watch this space for information on award selections.
07/02/2008	The full proceedings from the 2008 Earth Science Technology Conference, held in late June, are now available online.
06/19/2008	The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program is open as element A.20 within the NASA ROSES-2008 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 7/15/2008 and Proposals are due 8/29/2008.
06/16/2008	ESTO AIST-funded sensor web investigators met in April to produce use cases that demonstrate the utility of sensor webs to the NRC decadal survey recommendations. A final report is now available online.
06/16/2008	Are you going to IGARSS2008? Be sure to stop by for the presentations and posters given by ESTO-funded projects.
05/29/2008	An ESTO AIST-funded autonomous sensor web project for in-situ sampling of volatile ice sheets was featured in a Georgia Institute of Technology Press Release.
05/05/2008	The 2008 solicitation for the ESTO Advanced Component Technology (ACT) program is now open as element A.21 within the NASA ROSES-2008 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 5/30/2008 and Proposals are due 7/30/2008.
04/29/2008	Abstracts and the schedule of sessions are now available online for the 2008 Earth Science Technology Conference, June 24-26 in College Park, MD. Visit the conference website for more information and to register.
04/16/2008	Take a look at the new lithograph (4.6 MB, PDF) about the recent UAVSAR flights over Mount St. Helens.
04/08/2008	Award selections announced for the 2007 ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) ROSES Solicitation
03/18/2008	An ESTO-funded prototype instrument – the Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer (GIFS) – demonstrates capacity for improved cloud characterization in recent airborne test flights.
03/06/2008	ESTO is pleased to announce that the 2008 Earth Science Technology Conference will be held June 24-26 in College Park, MD. Visit the conference website for more information.
01/29/2008	An ESTO-funded project - "A Smart Sensor Web for Ocean Observation" - was featured in the 2007 Applied Physics Lab UW Biennial Report. Click here to download the excerpted article (1MB PDF file) or go to the APL-UW Biennial Reports web page for the complete document.
01/22/2008	ESTO-funded Raman Lidar instrument goes airborne to demonstrate new measurement capability and support the WAVES campaign.
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2007
12/17/2007	Get a snapshot of ESTO performance and technology advances for the past year: download the 2007 ESTO Annual Report (1.7 MB PDF file).
12/13/2007	The 2007 solicitation for the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) is now closed. Watch this space for an announcement of award selections.
11/9/2007	Congratulations to the Adaptive Sensor Fleet team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for being recognized by R&D Magazine as one of the top 100 innovations of 2007.
10/30/2007	Join us at the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, 12/10 - 12/14. ESTO investigators and managers are participating in two oral sessions (IN23B and IN24A) and one poster session (IN21A). ESTO will also be represented at the NASA exhibit.
7/25/2007	The 2007 solicitation for the ESTO Instrument Incubator Program is now open as element A.26 within the NASA ROSES-2007 omnibus research announcement. Notices of Intent (NOIs) are due 10/12/2007 and Proposals are due 12/12/2007.
6/25/2007	The 2007 NASA Science Technology Conference drew over 500 registrants. Click here to view the proceedings (presentations will be available online in early July).
5/21/2007	The 2007 NASA Science Technology Conference is almost here (June 19 - 21). Click here to visit the conference website.
5/15/2007	The UAVSAR project now has a dedicated mission website. Click here to visit the UAVSAR site (a Jet Propulsion Laboratory website).
5/10/2007	The Final Report from the AIST Sensor Web PI Meeting is now available. Visit the Meeting Website to download the report.
3/8/2007	The 2007 NASA Science Technology Conference will be held June 19-21 in College Park, MD. Visit the conference website to learn more and to register.
2/22/2007	ESTO held a Sensor Web PI Meeting in mid-February. Visit the Meeting Website to view presentations and learn about sensor web concepts.
1/18/2007	The Report from the Lidar Working Group is now available for download from the ESTO Advanced Planning page.
1/3/2007	ESTO-Funded NEXRAD in Space (NIS) project garners attention at the AGU Fall Meeting. Click here to read the NIS Press Release from AGU.
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2006
11/06/2006	ESTO's 2006 Annual Report is now available online on the ESTO Overview page.
11/1/2006	ESTO will run three sessions at the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting. See the Events page for more information and links to ESTO sessions.
10/10/2006	A new poster, RTIMS: A Radiation Tolerant Intelligent Memory Stack, is now available for download (11x17, 2.2 MB, PDF).
08/14/2006	ESTO-funded, one million pixel infrared detector can see a broad range of wavelengths.
07/26/2006	Going to IGARSS 2006 in Denver? Stop by and visit us at the NASA exhibit (booth # 9-12).
07/21/2006	ESTO-funded sensor web project (SEAMONSTER: A Smart Sensor Web in Southeast Alaska) featured in Space News
07/06/2006	Selections announced for the 2005 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) ROSES Solicitation
06/01/2006	Join ESTO at the 2006 Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC2006)
05/25/2006	ESTO-funded Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) array featured in Goddard Top Story.
05/10/2006	A new poster, Coupling High-Resolution Earth System Models, is now available for download (11x17, 2.5 MB, PDF).
03/30/2006	The ROSES 2005 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) NASA Research Announcement has closed. Watch this space for updates on awards.
01/17/2006	Presentations from the Lidar Technology Requirement Community Forum are available at the forum website.
01/16/2006	The 2005 ESTO Annual Report (3.1MB PDF) is now available online.
01/13/2006	The 2006 Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC2006) will be held June 26 - 29 in College Park, MD. More details are forthcoming.
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2005
12/16/2005	ESTO is holding a Lidar Technology Requirement Community Forum on Jan 10, 2006, in Washington, D.C. For more information, to register, or to submit input go to the forum website.
12/6/2005	The ROSES 2005 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) NASA Research Announcement is now open. Additional reference material for this solicitation is available here
10/14/2005	WELCOME TO THE NEW ESTO WEBSITE! (If you need access to the old site, it is still temporarily available: click here)
10/11/2005	Thulium Fiber Laser Spins-Off to Support Medical Applications
09/19/2005	See the new video about advances in hurricane modeling produced by the ESTO Computational Technologies Project
09/07/2005	ESTO-funded Land Information System named co-winner of the NASA Software of the Year Award
08/25/2005	Selections released for the 2005 Advanced Component Technologies (ACT) ROSES Solicitation
08/22/2005	Join ESTO at SPACE 2005 (Aug. 30 – Sep. 1, Long Beach, CA) and stop by our panel on Active Remote Sensing (Session 27-EO-3)
07/25/2005	The Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) wall poster is now available online.
07/20/2005	Field tests of the ESTO-funded Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) unite weather and climate models.
07/18/2005	The Proceedings of the 2005 Earth Science Technology Conference are Available Online.
06/27/2005	ESTO's technology portfolio is now online. Click here or select the TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO button from the navigation bar on the left.
06/27/2005	FIRST Instrument Successfully Test Flown
06/06/2005	ESTO CT Investigators Receive Time on NASA's Columbia Supercomputer
05/04/2005	Awards have been released for the 2004 Instrument Incubator Program solicitation.
04/14/2005	Advanced Lightweight Rainfall Radiometer Enjoys Successful Test Flights
03/17/2005	Simple, Interactive Simulations Make Complex NASA Computational Applications Understandable
03/08/2005	2005 Earth-Sun System Technology Conference (ESTC2005) to be held June 28-30 in College Park, MD.
02/01/2005	ESTO Advanced Component Technology solicitation released as part of the NASA ROSES-2005 NRA. Proposals due 4/29/05.
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2004
12/28/2004	NASA Science Mission Project Columbia Proposals Due 14 January 2005.
12/01/2004	The ESTO funded NASA QuakeSim Project sees remarkable results from the Rundle-Tiampo earthquake forecast for California.
11/03/2004	The final report for a study on the Feasibility of Using Lithium-Ion Batteries for LEO Applications is now available.
11/01/2004	The 2004 IIP NASA Research Announcement (NRA) closed on November 2, 2004. Watch this space for awards announcement.
9/17/2004	The final report for a study on Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Chemistry Using LIDARS from GEO is now available.
8/19/2004	ESTO’s Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) has released the 2004 IIP NASA Research Announcement (NRA). Proposals are due November 2, 2004.
8/19/2004	AIST Mini-NRA Selections Announced
7/19/2004	Earth Science Markup Language (ESML) Demonstrated with Remote Sensing Data
6/30/2004	The Proceedings of the 2004 Earth Science Technology Conference are now available online.
6/07/2004	The 2004 Technology Capabilities Catalog (zip 16 MB) is now available for download. CDs of the catalog will be available at the 2004 Earth Science Technology Conference.
5/13/2004	ESTO Technology to Fly on Air Force XSS-11
5/13/2004	Register online for the 2004 Earth Science Technology Conference in Palo Alto, CA, June 22 - 24. Online registration closes June 14.
5/05/2004	ESTO’s Advanced Information System Technologies (AIST) Program has released a Master NASA Research Announcement (NRA) and associated initial mini-solicitation for research proposals related to data mining and discovery technology mining. Proposals are due on July 6, 2004.
4/15/2004	The ESSAAC Technology Subcommittee (TSC) held it's Spring 2004 meeting on April 13 - 14. The Agenda and Presentations are available online for download.
4/05/2004	The Earth Science Vision 2030 Working Group Report is now available online as a PDF download. Printed copies will be available mid April.
3/16/2004	2004 Earth Science Technology Conference to be held June 22 - 24, 2004, in Palo Alto, CA
3/3/2004	ESTO-Funded Technology to Aid in Shuttle's Return-to-Flight.
2/20/2004	CALL FOR PAPERS: ESTO is co-chairing a session entitled "Enabling Sensor and Platform Technologies for Spaceborne Remote Sensing" at the November, 2004, SPIE Environmental Remote Sensing Symposium in Honolulu. See the call for papers for complete information. Abstracts are due to SPIE by 4/26/04.
2/2/2004	ESTO is sponsoring a Community Forum on Laser Diode Arrays in Space-Based Applications March 2-3 in Arlington, VA.
1/9/2004	Deadline to submit input to the radar/radiometry forum extended to 1/12/04.
1/8/2004	An Independent review board has examined the anomalous event experienced by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter (GLAS), an instrument onboard the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and has released an Executive Summary (1.48 MB pdf). For information on ICESat go to http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
1/8/2004	Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) posters - paper and interactive - are available here.
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2003
11/19/2003	NASA/ESTO community forum on radar/radiometry technology requirements is scheduled on January 8, 2004 in Washington, DC.
9/10/2003	ESTO technology utilized in partnership with the USDA Forest Service for the detection of wildland fire activity.
8/15/2003	Papers and presentations from the Special Sessions at IGARSS 2003 are now available.
7/2/2003	ESTO Launches ESTIPS, the Earth Science Technology Intergrated Planning System
6/26/2003	Third Annual Earth Science Technology Conference is a success
3/31/2003	Earth Science Technology Conference to be held June 24-26
3/14/2003	AIST NRA-02-OES-04 Award Announced
1/27/2003	Earth Science Technology Planning Workshop, March 5-6, 2003
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2002
12/23/2002	IIP 2002 NRA Selections Announced
9/16/2002	AIST 2002 NRA Released
9/9/2002	ACT 2002 NRA Winners Announced
9/3/2002	IGARSS 2002 CD
7/31/2002	Results from the ESE Computational Technology Requirements Workshop held April 30 and May 1, 2002 in Washington, DC.
6/16/2002	Earth System Modeling Framework Community Requirements Meeting
6/16/2002	Earth Science Technology Conference 2002 Announcement & Registration
4/3/2002	Advanced Component Technology (ACT) 2002 NRA Released
1/22/2002	Instrument Incubator Program 2001 NRA selections announced
1/22/2002	NASA Earth Science Technology Conference 2001, August 28-30
1/22/2002	ESTO Award Administration E-Books
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2001
5/21/2001	Instrument Incubator Program NRA Bidders Conference to be held March 21, 8:30-12 at the Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland University College
5/21/2001	New Instrument Incubator Program 2001 NASA Research Announcement, released March 9th
3/9/2001	New Instrument Incubator Program NASA Research Announcement to be released on March 9th
3/7/2001	New Instrument Incubator Program(IIP) NASA Research Announcement release expected first week of March
3/7/2001	New Millenium Program/Earth Science Technology Office Technology Planning Workshop: January 23-24, 2001
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