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RESESS

The Center for Remote Sensing and Earth System Sciences


ABOUT RESESS


LOCATED AT THE CAMPUS OF NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY IN BROOKLYN. RESESS
IS USING DATA FROM SATELLITES TO RECORD CHANGES IN ECOLOGIES, AND ENVIRONMENTS.
WITH HELP AND SUPPORT FROM NUMEROUS ORGANIZATIONS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE, WE AIM
TO MAKE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES A THING OF THE PAST.

ReSESS at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) started on
December 9, 2011 through an agreement with the CUNY CREST Institute and under
the leadership of Dr. Reginald Blake. Today, ReSESS is Co-Directed by Dr. Blake
and Dr. Hamidreza Norouzi. The Center plays a critical role not only in helping
to replenish this nation’s geoscience workforce, but also in establishing a
vibrant, faculty-student centered research culture at City Tech. The center
focuses on the formal, integrated, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive
implementation of Earth Systems Science and Remote Sensing technologies and
applications at City Tech. This single-minded mission helps to foster an
institutional research culture change by creating, sustaining, and promoting
collaborative research that coalesces around the relatively new and exciting
study of the Earth and its environment via satellite and ground-based Remote
Sensing. The Center’s mission is anchored in course offerings, research
activities, exposure trips, seminars, internships, conferences, and citizen
science to engage and to stimulate the curiosity of City Tech’s faculty and
students to the varied applications of Remote Sensing to the cryosphere, the
biosphere, the lithosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere.With ReSESS’s
mission in place, the City Tech will, therefore, soon become a leader in
producing the next generation of scientists and engineers with unique expertise
in satellite and ground-based remote sensing and their applications to
geophysics. The Center’s research activities have produced peer reviewed
publications and the garnering of educational and research grants that are being
used to pursue and to promote remote sensing studies.


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PORTFOLIO


RESEARCH POSTERS WE'VE CREATED.

Urban Heat Island

Urban Heat Islands (UHI) are one of the leading environmental issues in densely
populated urban areas. Accurate characterization of the surface energy balance
is required to better predict the dynamics of the UHI and its impact on extreme
heat events. However, a better complete knowledge of urban surface energy
balance is needed to accurately understand climate processes revolving around
high-density urban environments. The goal of this study, using satellite data,
is to enhance the understanding the urban surface energy budget and observe land
surface temperatures. Using a linear regression model, GOES-16 LST data, which
has a spatial resolution of 2km and a temporal resolution of 5 minutes, was
combined with Landsat 8 LST data, which has a spatial resolution of 30m and a
temporal resolution of 16 days to get a high spatio-temporal resolution (30m
every 5 minutes) LST product. The downscaled estimates showed a reasonable
agreement (-0.09 to 3.30 K) when they were validated against independent Landsat
images.

GLOBAL LAKES SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITIES USING SATELLITES

Anthropogenic climate change has made a noticeable impact on our worldwide
ecosystem, often leading to cascading effects that impact human lives. Although
lakes consist of a small percentage of global water bodies, they nevertheless
have significant influence on their surrounding environment, impacting the lives
around them. For this research, 519 lakes from all over the world were studied
using daily observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) from the NASA website. The Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) was
found to be an indicator of climate change. In the study, LSWT was compared with
Land Surface Temperatures and related factors. Results were analyzed using
MATLAB . Approximately 54.24% of the lakes studied were shown to be warming,
while 40.03% were shown to be cooling; in addition, 68.44% of the lakes were
found to be shrinking; while 24.85% were found to be growing. Continued studies
of lake surface temperature trends of global lakes are imperative for
communities that depend on them for survival, as well as the entirety of Earth.



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NEWS

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT RESESS?


RESESS NEWS NOW


RED HOOK FARMS

Thanks to one of our leaders


Tiaamé, a graduate student


working with ReSESS.


They are paving a new path


for new ReSESS Rock Stars


working on the impact urban farming


has on it's environment


using satellite imagery!

Learn More!


NEW PAPER ABOUT SPATIAL DOWNSCALING OF GOES-R

We would like to congratulate


ReSESS' Abdou Bah, and Dr. Norouzi,


for their work on the


GOES-R downscaling project.


If you'd like to read their journal


please click on the link below!

Learn More!


AMS CONFERENCE 2022 A SUCCESS!

ReSESS is pleased to announce


that our posters were well recieved!


The presentations about both the Urban Heat


Island effect and the Global


Lakes Surface Temperature were both


well received in the virtual conference

Learn More!


CONTACT

Contact us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

New York, US

resess@citytech.cuny.edu



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