Applications & Impact

Making an Impact with GLOBE

Learn how your GLOBE observations can be used to support actionable science aligned with NASA Earth Action program areas. 

Agriculture

With the GLOBE Agriculture bundle, you can make a variety of observations that support food production, which in turn affects human livelihoods and market stability. By participating in the GLOBE Agriculture Campaign, your GLOBE Observer Land Cover observations can help monitor cropland status. 

Disasters

Your Land Cover observations may demonstrate the effects of natural hazards in your area, supporting recovery and resilience efforts. The 2025 NASA Response Mappers pilot encouraged GLOBE observers located in hurricane-prone regions to take routine observations to detect damage after tropical storms.

Ecological Conservation

GLOBE offers a wide variety of Biosphere protocols that you can use to monitor the ecosystems around you, which is important for tracking changes and managing resources.

Energy and Infrastructure

With the GLOBE Urban bundle, you can explore the interactions between the natural world and built environments. By participating in the upcoming HEAT28 Campaign, your surface temperature observations can help monitor urban heat islands during the 2028 Olympics.

Health and Air Quality

GLOBE offers a wide variety of Atmosphere protocols you can use to monitor the air around you, which is important to understanding environmental health and infectious diseases. Millions of people die each year from mosquito-borne diseases. Use Mosquito Habitat Mapper to document mosquito habitats, identify mosquito types, and eliminate mosquito habitats when possible.

Water Resources

A wide variety of GLOBE Hydrosphere protocols can be used to monitor the waterways around you, which is important for water resources management and water quality monitoring.

Wildland Fires

With the GLOBE Air Quality bundle, you can explore the effects of smoke from wildland fires in your area.