Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing a system for predicting the likelihood of forest fires. Using Gilbirinsky Forestry in the basin of Lake Baikal, they created a map of the territory and identified ...
Environment
Jun 21, 2019
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In São Paulo City, Brazil, the Tietê River is polluted by a vast amount of waste, mainly domestic sewage, but the farther it runs into the interior, the better the quality of its water becomes. It is much less murky at ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2019
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Landsat is one of the most important U.S. satellite systems. Since the program's launch in 1972, Landsat satellites have provided the longest-running terrestrial satellite record and collected more than 5.6 million images.
Environment
Mar 8, 2019
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A new population viability model, with an accompanying web app, is helping scientists to better forecast population changes and extinction risk for imperiled species. The method was developed by ecologists at the University ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2019
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Conservation scientists can use free satellite imagery to track invasive plant species on remote Pacific islands, according to new research.
Environment
Dec 20, 2018
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There are more than 4,800 satellites orbiting Earth. They bristle with sensors – trained towards Earth and into space – recording and transmitting many different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.
Environment
Sep 17, 2018
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When people think of the Arctic, snow, ice and polar bears come to mind. Trees? Not so much. At least not yet.
Environment
Aug 6, 2018
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In its five years in space, the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite has racked up some impressive statistics: 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million "scenes" captured, a motherlode of images that represents 16 percent ...
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2018
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After more than 16 years of operation, NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft was decommissioned on March 30. The EO-1 satellite was a component of NASA's New Millennium Program to validate new technologies that could ...
Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2017
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Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have solved a problem nagging NASA's Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite.
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2016
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