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Stepping back to get a closer view
Atlanta led to 1998's Urban Heat Island Pilot Project (UHIPP) which conducted similar measurements over Baton Rouge, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. Right: An image from the Landsat 5 thermal channel (top) is shows how hot areas (red) correspond with urban a...
How to Understand Imagery in Poetry
that the images are created by associations that we make as readers within the linguistic context of the text. For example, the word "red" immediately creates an image or picture of the color red in our minds. This color is associated or has connotations...
ArchNet
architectural development. This database is particularly useful for educators who wish to make linkages between modern historic trends, such as population displacements or the expansion of welfare states, with public buildings and other architectural expressions....
Just Add Water
grew by more than 50 percent during the nine-year period, bringing an additional 450,000 acres under cultivation. Although the hot, dry weather of late August has left the surrounding landscape parched and dusty, the Harran Plains are thick with green cotton plants in the...
U.S. Buys Up Afghanistan Images from Top Satellite
Satellite Bijal P. Trivedi National Geographic Today October 25, 2001 A key rule of military engagement is to know your enemy. The Pentagon has taken this mantra to the next level and has bought exclusive rights to all pictures of Afghanistan taken by the world's mos...
Image and Video Inpainting
Examples (all done with the algorithms in the papers above) General examples for image restoration, object removal, and special effects (click on each image) Example of video inpainting using the Navier-Stokes based approach Examples of inpai...
Reference for Land Management
Satellite Imagery Tracking Change over Time Enhance students' learning of geography, map reading, earth science, and problem solving through landscape changes recorded by satellites in space. Satellite Image Gallery A special collection of sat...
EO-1: It's not just a good idea, it's the law!
growth or urban planning; it certainly looks at productivity of crops; it looks at forest management; it looks at natural disasters, for example floods or volcanoes; it looks at some cases of pollution, like people dumping things into coastal waters," s...
Growing Data (DAAC Study)
1994. Taking the EROS compositing process a step further, Stow and the researchers used a technique that employed high-resolution neighboring views to infer details. They created pictures from the satellite data that could be compared with those collected from airp...
The Art of Science
Chiao during Expedition 10. Large urban centers such as these serve as global economic, social, and cultural centers. The establishment and growth of cities also alters local and sometimes regional climate patterns, hydrology, and ecology. Replacemen...
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