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Between August and October, GLOBE Observers in the southeastern United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands collected land cover observations for the NASA Disasters Program as part of a pilot initiative called NASA Response Mappers. The observations fed in to the Disasters Response Coordination System, which provides satellite-based information to emergency managers after a disaster. The NASA Response Mappers pilot was meant to test how well citizen science observations can fill gaps in satellite data before and after a disaster strikes.

Our GLOBE Observer Connect conversation on January 22, 2026 was with members of the NASA Disaster’s Program sharing what they learned from the NASA Response Mappers pilot project and how the project impacted disaster impact mapping.