Professor Kim, Dr. Nguyen Hoang Hai (Postdoctoral researcher), Seongjun Lee (graduate student) and Kunhee Park (graduate student) visited NASA Goddard Flight Center (NASA GSFC) in Maryland, USA for the past 18 to 21 November 2024 with experts in the field of water resources. The two institutions are leading international research institutes using Earth Observation (EO) satellites in various fields, including climate, agriculture, and forests, including water resources.
[NASA GSFC]
The main agenda at NASA GSFC was "Exchange of Current Status and Research Trends in Water Resources Management Technology Using EO Satellites" and "Exploration of International Joint Research Subjects for Water Resources Satellite Application." Starting with the keynote speech by Dr. John D. Bolton, the chief of the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory (HSL), who is conducting research on this agenda, we were able to grasp the latest trends in water resource remote sensing at NASA GSFC, including research trends for inland water management using altimeter satellites such as ICESat-2, and research trends for monitoring water disasters such as floods and droughts using synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Professor Kim and other researchers in the domestic water resource field shared research in the field of remote water resource exploration in Korea, providing a place for exchanges in international academic joint research. Following the meeting, we participated in a NASA campus tour of the Earth Observing System Operations Center, which conducts NASA's EO satellite control missions, including GPM and Landsat missions, and the development site of the Nancy Grace Loman telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2026.
