Mapping Long-term Land Use Change with Remote Sensing Data
The USGS’ Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative is helping to better monitor the Earth and long-term land use change.
Using Geospatial Technologies to Map Hurricane Response
Using satellite data and artificial intelligence, researchers have developed a way to rapidly map hurricane destruction.
Mapping Jellyfish
Mapping swarms of jellyfish has significantly improved due to a combination of remote sensing data, UAV and satellite data, and algorithms that estimate jellyfish migration based on current data.
Remote Sensing for Carbon Offsetting
Remote sensing and geospatial technologies are being harnessed for carbon offsetting efforts.
Open-Source Science in the Cloud Collaboration
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released a new open source and science tool called the Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP).
How to Create a Timelapse of Satellite Imagery With Google Earth Engine and Streamlit
Qiusheng Wu explains how to make a 60-second satellite timelapse of any location on the globe.
How the Satellite Imagery Industry is Re-inventing Itself
Joe Morrison discusses how new businesses are developing tools that use satellite imagery and SAR to quantify climate-related disasters.
Super-resolution Imaging
Super-resolution is a technique derived from computer vision approaches that tries to increase the quality of an image by employing algorithms and upsampling to improve image sampling.
Deepfake Satellite Imagery
Deepfake satellite imagery is imagery that has been synthetically to alter or change the appearance of an image, often replacing one scene for another.
Mapping the Human Footprint
The world settlement footprint, created in a online application called Urban Thematic Exploration Platform (TEP) sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), is the first map that combines optical and radar satellites to create a human urban footprint map of the world.
36,500 Satellite Images from RADARSAT-1 Now Available to the Public
The Canadian Space Agency and the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation have released RADARSAT-1’s archive of 36,500 satellite images to the public.