{"id":643048,"date":"2024-04-16T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=643048"},"modified":"2024-04-16T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:35:40","slug":"nasa-open-science-initiative-expands-openet-across-amazon-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/earth\/nasa-open-science-initiative-expands-openet-across-amazon-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Open Science Initiative Expands OpenET Across Amazon Basin\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 68% 73%; object-position: 68% 73%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg 5657w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=2048,1152 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=400,225 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=600,337 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=900,506 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=1200,675 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img-0860-openet-brazil.jpeg?resize=2000,1125 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">An image of croplands in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; an area the Large-Scale Hydrology Research Group hosted at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil expects could benefit from the OpenET-Brazil tool that aims to provide data about water consumption and evapotranspiration at the field scale.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul\/Anderson Ruhoff<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The research teams who help sustain the largest freshwater reserve in the world are developing a new tool to promote more resilient farming systems in Brazil. The goal is to help farmers better handle changes in the water cycle, deal with droughts, and adapt to a changing climate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Large-Scale Hydrology Research Group hosted at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil recently announced they are launching OpenET-Brazil, an online tool to provide data about water consumption and evapotranspiration (the \u201cET\u201d in OpenET) at the field scale. The tool will use open-source models and Google Earth Engine, as well as publicly available satellite data from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to provide satellite-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and water use for Brazilian water agencies, farmers associations, and non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenET-Brazil builds on the same tools and approach as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/openet-satellite-based-water-data-resource\/\">OpenET<\/a>, which was developed for the western United States through a public-private collaboration led by NASA, USGS, Environmental Defense Fund, Desert Research Institute, Google Earth Engine, HabitatSeven, and several universities, with input from more than 100 stakeholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenET uses an open science approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/earth-science\/water-energy-cycle\/openet-moisture-measurement-tool-is-proving-highly-accurate\/\" rel=\"noopener\">provide satellite-based information<\/a> on water consumption in areas as small as a quarter of an acre and at daily, monthly, and yearly intervals. Until OpenET, there was no single, low-cost operational system for measuring and distributing evapotranspiration data at the scale of individual fields <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uAapAAInDpQ\" rel=\"noopener\">across the western United States<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/satellite-openet-brazil.png?w=992\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 29% 28%; object-position: 29% 28%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/satellite-openet-brazil.png 992w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/satellite-openet-brazil.png?resize=300,212 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/satellite-openet-brazil.png?resize=768,542 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/satellite-openet-brazil.png?resize=400,282 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/satellite-openet-brazil.png?resize=600,423 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/satellite-openet-brazil.png?resize=900,635 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">A satellite image over a portion of the Amazon across the Brazilian states of Rond\u00f4nia, Mato Grosso, and Par\u00e1 showing how deforestation affects the water cycle and leads to differences in evapotranspiration. Forested areas (in green) reflect higher evapotranspiration and deforested areas (in light green to yellow) reflect lower evapotranspiration.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul\/Leonardo Laipelt<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen how OpenET can greatly improve the way farmers, ranchers, and water resource managers work together to steward one of Earth\u2019s most precious resources here in the United States,” said Forrest Melton, the OpenET project scientist at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley. “I\u2019m excited to see how OpenET\u2019s user-driven approach, open-source models, freely available data services, and data vizualiation and retrieval tools can be used by leading scientsts in Brazil to advance water resource management in the Amazon basin and, perhaps one day, globally.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research teams who help sustain the largest freshwater reserve in the world are developing a new tool to promote more resilient farming systems in Brazil. 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