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The Yangtze Delta is home to more than eighty million people in an area only a little larger than the state of Indiana.

Repatterning the World

As wildlands shrink, scientists study the ecologies that people have tamed.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The NSCAT image above shows Typhoon Violet near Japan in 1996.

Reckoning with Winds

NSCAT wind vectors and SSM/I precipitable water color images reveal the physics in action for typhoons.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
In Mankerni, Sri Lanka, four eyewitnesses to the December 26, 2004 tsunami stand on the remains of the house where they were when they first realized a tsunami was about to strike.

Making Waves in Tsunami Research

Data from Jason and TOPEX/Poseidon give scientists the first detailed profile of a major tsunami event.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
False-color composite image of Mount Kilauea, red indicates solidified rock from previous lava flows.

Life on the Brink

Scientists use gridded population of the world (GPW) data to study hazards and populations.
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
SeaWinds can produce a detailed structure of a hurricane, as in this image of Hurricane Floyd. (Image courtesy of the Winds at JPL).

Forecasting Fury

Data from NASA satellites allow researchers to detect potential hurricanes up to two days earlier than with traditional forecasting methods.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
These photographs show the Sonoran Desert in different stages: normal vegetation (upper left), burning desert (upper right), and a landscape with burned areas in the foreground and unburned desert behind.

Flame & Flood

ASTER data help evaluate fire scars by using VNIR to find differences in vegetation.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
The JERS-1 SAR image above shows the Bajawa Breccia Cone Complex in Eastern Indonesia from February 3, 1996.

Fish in the Trees

Synthetic Aperture Radar aboard the JERS-1 satellite collects data from the world's tropical forests.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
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