Mapping Urban Heat
Lead by Portland State University professor Vivek Shandas, a network of citizen volunteers and local organizations are mapping urban heat islands in more detail than ever before.
Lead by Portland State University professor Vivek Shandas, a network of citizen volunteers and local organizations are mapping urban heat islands in more detail than ever before.
NASA researchers are able to map out plant stress using a remote sensing from ECOsystems Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station, or ECOSTRESS.
Researchers used synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data to look at how the ice is moving and shifting on Antarctica.
LiDAR systems are used to collect high resolution topographic and bathymetric data.
Satellite data is being used to create Damage Proxy Maps to assess changes in an area as the result of natural disasters like Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and the wildfires that have hit Northern and Southern California.
The European Space Agency is using satellite radar data collected from their satellites to measure how much wood is in the world’s forests globally.
NASA has created a time series visualization of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier using 20 years of data from radar, lasers, and high-resolution cameras.
ArcticDEM is a project that is working to produce digital elevation models of the Arctic in order to see how topographical changes are occurring over time, such as the rate at which glaciers are receding.
Jason-2 will be collecting data about the sea floor every 5 miles, which will be used to create a high-definition estimate of the average surface height of the ocean in various places around the globe.
Researchers mapped 23 chemicals that are released by the rainforests in Peru with laser-guided imaging spectroscopy.
New technology called the Firelight Detection Algorithm, or FILDA, can help detect wildfires at night even when the skies are cloudy.
Using satellite images, researchers established a method of calculating the distance between any point in the continental United States and the nearest forested area.