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#           Eyes on Earth Episode 67 - ECOSTRESS and Water Use      

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how the ECOSTRESS sensor can track water use efficiency.

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**Summary**: If you want to know how much rain fell yesterday, you can catch it and measure it. Water vapor? That's not so easy. Which is a problem if you want to know how quickly that rate is returning to the atmosphere. Water vapor is the single largest part of the water budget, but without space-based observations, it would be all but impossible to measure at wide scale. On this episode of Eyes on Earth, we learn how a sensor called ECOSTRESS helps improve the space-based measurement of evapotranspiration, or ET, which is the combined rate of evaporation from the Earth's surface and transpiration from plants.

**Guest:**Dr. Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, deputy science lead for ECOSTRESS at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** February 7, 2022

**More on ECOSTRESS and ET:**
                                - Kerry Cawse-Nicholson staff bio – NASA JPL
                                - Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales
                                - Eyes on Earth Episode 65 – Rapid Fire Mapping with Remote Sensing
                                - Eyes on Earth Episode 63 - ECOSTRESS and Post-Fire Recovery

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#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

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                      - Water Use Trends and Dynamics
                      - Information Systems
                      - Maps and Mapping
                      - Evapotranspiration
                      - Remote Sensing
                      - water use
                      - ECOSTRESS
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                      - satellites
                      - EROS
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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how the ECOSTRESS sensor can track water use efficiency.

View Media Details

View

Download and Transcript Access

View Media Details

**Summary**: If you want to know how much rain fell yesterday, you can catch it and measure it. Water vapor? That's not so easy. Which is a problem if you want to know how quickly that rate is returning to the atmosphere. Water vapor is the single largest part of the water budget, but without space-based observations, it would be all but impossible to measure at wide scale. On this episode of Eyes on Earth, we learn how a sensor called ECOSTRESS helps improve the space-based measurement of evapotranspiration, or ET, which is the combined rate of evaporation from the Earth's surface and transpiration from plants.

**Guest:**Dr. Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, deputy science lead for ECOSTRESS at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** February 7, 2022

**More on ECOSTRESS and ET:**
                                - Kerry Cawse-Nicholson staff bio – NASA JPL
                                - Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales
                                - Eyes on Earth Episode 65 – Rapid Fire Mapping with Remote Sensing
                                - Eyes on Earth Episode 63 - ECOSTRESS and Post-Fire Recovery

### Contacts

#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

### Explore Search

                      - Remote Sensing
                      - Water Use Trends and Dynamics
                      - Information Systems
                      - Maps and Mapping
                      - Evapotranspiration
                      - Remote Sensing
                      - water use
                      - ECOSTRESS
                      - LP DAAC
                      - satellites
                      - EROS
                      - Mapping
                      - Eyes on Earth
                      - podcasts

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