Primary Convener:
Sean Fleming, JPL/NASA/Caltech

Convener:
Sharon Ray, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Mark Davidson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Perry Oddo, NASA Headquarters

Chair:
Sean Fleming, JPL/NASA/Caltech
Bailing Li, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland

Building on AGU2025’s Where Science Connects Us theme, this session highlights innovative integration of NASA or other remote sensing into day-to-day water management practices in the water-stressed US West. In-situ monitoring will always have incalculable value but reflects spatial point measurements of heterogeneous processes - critical gaps filled by remote sensing. However, research-community successes are often disconnected from applications-community practices. Presentations will share innovation bringing remote sensing into production-level decision-support systems. Examples include flood, water supply, and drought forecasting; water, hydroelectricity, and drought planning; water markets; groundwater management; surface water-groundwater-cryosphere-atmosphere interactions; water quality, including HAB monitoring/forecasting; aquatic habitat restoration, including dam removal; tech-related water uses like server farms and REE/lithium mines; economic valuation of EO-enabled water-management improvements; and wildfire and other LULC change impacts on floods, water quality, and water supply. Co-developed outcomes leveraging multi-sectoral partnerships across academia, government, and the for-profit and nonprofit private sectors are especially welcomed.

Index Terms
3360 Remote sensing
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
1855 Remote sensing
1880 Water management

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
SY - Science and Society
C - Cryosphere
A - Atmospheric Sciences

Co-Organized Sessions:
Science and Society

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering
1. Science Nexus