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From Pixels to Products: An Overview of Satellite Remote Sensing

The webinar introduces satellite remote sensing, radiance conversion, image classification, and geophysical product creation, and more.

Webinar

Jan. 29, 2021

Researcher Michel Verstraete pauses while a laser scanner records the geometric properties of a savanna landscape in Kruger National Park, South Africa

New Angles

Scientists teach an old satellite new tricks.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

In this photograph, taken eleven years after the Charlton Fire in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest, a majority of snags still stand while gradually new vegetation is recovering.

Burned But Not Forgotten

Decades after a fire, high-elevation forests still shape a climate.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

Terra: The Hardest Working Satellite in Earth Orbit

Since 1999, NASA’s Terra Earth observing satellite has completed more than 100,000 orbits. The instrument data from this workhorse satellite has resulted in one of the longest continuous data records of our planet ever recorded from space.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

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