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Visions of a Cloudy Continent (DAAC Study)
Antarctica," said Jane Ferrigno of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Center. Prior to the advent of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), no other civilian satellite remote sensing system was able to view the entire South Pole area, she sai...
Flame & Flood (DAAC Study)
fire scar locations, the study requires information about plant growth and erosion that ASTER cannot provide. “Even with ASTER’s high resolution, the changes in stream channels are too subtle to detect,” said Ramsey. So he and his colleague...
RAMPing Up (DAAC Study)
Mystery shrouds the Antarctic continent, particularly its eastern interior where few humans have explored. Satellite images obtained in 1997 for the RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) culminated in the world's first high-resolution map of Antarctica ...
When Land Slides (DAAC Study)
resolution, and making it especially useful for mapping the geomorphology of landslides. "SAR images provide information on the terrain roughness and texture, while TM images provide an infrared reflection of the object," said Singh...
Fish Kill in the Gulf of Oman
” explains Morrison. “This station enables them to receive AVHRR and SeaWiFS data transmitted directly from the overpassing satellites. Since that time we have had an ongoing program to train local scientists in operating the station as well as in processing and...
Well Grounded (DAAC Study)
Land Team (MODLAND) Validation Coordinator. "We required detailed information from a global network of research sites to provide us with measurements about aspects of land cover types, vegetation uptake and carbon dioxide release, and atmospheric carbon exchan...
Precision Farming
significant number of farmers who use high technology and remote sensing data for precision crop management." The U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, and NOAA are among key agencies contributing to this revolution in large-scale agriculture. The goa...
Fire Emergency in Acre, Brazil
burn before the episode is over. Foster Brown is one of several NASA-funded scientists who is working with Brazilian scientists and government planners to develop strategies for controlling and preventing the destructive blazes. “Our role is to use satel...
New Light on Ice Motion (DAAC Study)
Rachel Hauser November 5, 2001 Detailed antarctic temperature and climate records date only from the late 1950s, with limited information dating from the turn of the 20th century. Now, using visible and near-infrared satellite imagery, scientists have piec...
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