NASA Disasters: Case Studies

Welcome to the NASA Disasters Learning Portal case studies. These Jupyter notebooks demonstrate how to access, visualize, and analyze disaster-related data for real-world events. Each case study walks through data acquisition, processing, and analysis techniques relevant to disaster response and monitoring.

Featured Case Studies

These case studies showcase practical applications of satellite data and geospatial analysis for disaster monitoring and response.

Texas Flood 2025

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• Demonstrates flood monitoring and analysis using satellite imagery and geospatial data
• Learn how to track water extent changes and assess flood impacts

New Mexico Fire 2025

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• Shows wildfire detection, monitoring, and impact assessment techniques
• Explore methods for tracking fire progression and burn area mapping

Contributing

The NASA Disasters Learning Portal welcomes contributions from the scientific community. If you have developed a case study using disaster-related datasets and would like to share it, please contact the team through the NASA Disasters Portal.

Resources

• NASA Disasters Portal - Main portal for disaster data and tools
• JupyterHub Guide - Learn how to run these notebooks in a JupyterHub environment
• Data Workflow Diagrams - Understand the data processing pipelines