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The image above shows the mouth of the Amazon River.

River Seasons

Amazon discharge is affected by periodic El Niño events.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
Sunflowers in Fargo, North Dakota

Perspective on Plants

Landowners and land managers monitor their land's health through a variety of methods. But what about people who own or manage millions of acres?
Feature Article
July 23, 2020
Nomadic people, such as this woman and her cattle, formed the pastoral society common in Kazakhstan before the Soviet Union converted thousands of acres to large-scale modern farm operations.

Notebook and Satellite

A simple tool helps a scientist open the remotely sense world to her students.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) is taking the first steps towards attaining a better understanding of the effects of biome perturbations.

Grasslands Initiative

The IGBP takes the first steps towards attaining a better understanding of dust storms.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
This image is a south view from the Skukuza FLUXNET tower in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

From the Ground Up

Science teams collaborate to validate MODIS land cover data, thereby improving data quality and increasing data accessibility.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
MODIS imagery in use as the basis for calculating fire emissions of carbon dioxide.

Fiery Temperament

Publication from NASA ESDIS describing research uses of data from EOSDIS - land systems can change from something desirable to something undesirable.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
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