Satellites Help Monitor Pakistani Groundwater

Satellites Help Monitor Pakistani Groundwater

After decades of unchecked pumping from underground water reservoirs, the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources in January 2016 began using satellite data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission to create monthly updates on groundwater storage changes in the Indus River basin.

Penn State Offers Online Earth-Observation Education

Penn State Offers Online Earth-Observation Education

The Department of Geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University continues to lead academically in geospatial sciences through its Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Program and its Online Geospatial Education Program Office.

Patagonia Ice Fields Shrinking

Patagonia Ice Fields Shrinking

Reports and studies of shrinking glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica come in regularly, but an additional ice field can be added to the list: Patagonia, the mountainous area at the southern end of South America shared by Argentina and Chile.

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