Space often is viewed as a high-tech futuristic dream available only to the world’s top-notch scientists. Online satellite maps, TV and GPS have snuck into common usage, but with the controlling powers being large companies or institutions. But we’re now at a...
Multi-temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is a complementary technology that makes traditional monitoring more efficient. It can help monitor large areas and deliver the critical information that urban planners and engineers need to understand the state of urban infrastructure such as buildings, bridges, roads, airports and underground tunnels.
Remotely sensed data provide a snapshot in time, and thus seem perfect for a task such as parking-capacity inventory. Until recently, however, remote-sensing systems suffered from shortcomings that made them ill-suited to the task: satellite imagery lacked sufficient spatial resolution, and aerial imagery was never cost effective for small areas.
There are many barriers to accessing and applying satellite data, such as the cost and complexity of transmission, handling and storage as well as the need to calibrate and process large volumes of imagery from multiple satellites.
With the Atlas for a Changing Planet Story Map, scientists, policy makers, planners and activists can examine detailed spatial information critical for adapting to a warmer future.
A collaboration among Australia's national science agency (CSIRO), Bureau of Meteorology and Intersect created TAPPAS (Tool for Assessing Pest and Pathogen Aerial Spread), an online software tool for modeling the wind dispersal of living organisms.
The newly published, three-volume Remote Sensing Handbook includes remote-sensing topics written by more than 300 leading global experts.
Originally launched in 1995 by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study the sun and its influence out to the edges of the solar system, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) revolutionized heliophysics, providing the basis for nearly 5,000 scientific papers.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is calling for Earth-observation scientists to submit proposals for the ninth Earth Explorer satellite mission.
Drawing inspiration from an insect’s multi-faceted eye, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers created miniature lenses with vast range of vision.
