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Katarina Samurović

Katarina Samurović is an environmental analyst and a freelance science writer. She has a special interest in biodiversity, ecoclimatology, biogeography, trees and insects.
Urban trees provide many benefits such as absorbing heat, filtering pollution, and absorbing carbon dioxide from the air. Photo: Willow Oak in City Park, USGS, public domain.

Google Launches AI powered Tree Canopy Lab

January 13, 2021 by Katarina Samurović

Google is using artificial intelligence to develop maps of tree canopy from its aerial imagery.

Categories GIS Data Tags Google, mapping trees, urban mapping

“Adopt A Pixel” to Help Landsat Science

January 13, 2020January 29, 2019 by Katarina Samurović

Adopt A Pixel program has existed for quite some time – from 2013 – in the form of a web service which allowed users to upload geospatially tagged landscape images to complement the remote sensing collections.

Categories GIS Data Tags citizen science, crowdsource GIS, landsat

Ocean and Land Observation Data From Sentinel-3B

July 22, 2018 by Katarina Samurović

The main mission of the recently launched Sentinel-3B is to provide quality ocean and land monitoring. As part of the Copernicus program, GIS data and imagery will be made freely available.

Categories GIS Data Tags earth observation, open source GIS data, Sentinel-3

Swarm Satellites Bring New Findings About Ocean Magnetism

June 23, 2018June 23, 2018 by Katarina Samurović

In 2013 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched a trio of satellites called “Swarm”, which are specialized in capturing Earth’s magnetic activity including ocean current magnetism

Categories GIS Data Tags magnetic field, Swarm satellites
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