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Beautiful Earth: Floods and Landslides

Beautiful Earth: Floods and Landslides
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Informal, 6 - 8
Standards: 
ESS2.C, ESS3.B, ESS3.D, ETS2.A, ETS2.B
Keywords: 
GPM, soil, extreme events
Summary: 
GPM Application Science Lead, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, explains how landslides and floods occur, and how satellite imagery is used in understanding these disasters.
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Video Description: 

In this Beautiful Earth segment, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum talks about her role in identifying where and when landslides are occurring. She explains the different conditions that are necessary for floods and landslides to occur, showing images of various examples of these disasters. NASA is using GPM imagery to build a model to understand where landslides occur, which is crucial for community safety, as it can be used to make decisions about evacuations or relocations.

On this page, the full, hour-long webcast of the GPM/Beautiful Earth can be viewed, as well as the segments where Dr. Kirschbaum discusses hurricanes and snow.

Source: 

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=10276

Credits: 

NASA SVS