EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 8 -- The University of Texas at El Paso issued the following news release:
EL PASO, Texas (Oct. 8, 2026) - NASA may be known for exploring deep space, but a team of UTEP researchers is turning the agency's technology toward a challenge much closer to home: tracking floodwaters after major storms.
Led byYong Je Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor in UTEP's Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, the research team has received nearly $500,000 from NASA for a two-year project that will combine satellite imagery, Earth observation data and artificial intelligence to rapidly map areas affected by flooding in El Paso.
"El Paso may be a desert city, but intense monsoon storms can send water rushing thro...