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solar high-resolution barrier
proposal for a "Next Generation of Solar High-Resolution Imaging Instrumentation" at a meeting today of the Mechanisms of Solar Variability Science Working Group in Washington, D.C. NASA charters such working groups to look ahead to the kinds of...
High Water
was in a plane flying over the Upper Midwest.” His study of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1993 with remote-sensing data was the launching off point for what has become Brakenridge’s passion for the last decade: creating a satellite-based, glob...
World's Largest Gathering of Humans Imaged by Satellite
Image courtesy of Space Imaging ENLARGE >> The 30 million participants in the Maha Kumbh Mela—the Grand Pitcher Festival—number more than the total population of Peru. They have gathered at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers to bathe...
Overpopulation: The Phenomena
VIDEO: Satellite technology allows Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources to find cost effective and timely solutions to management problems. VIDEO: An animation of satellite imagery shows urban growth in the Baltimore, Maryla...
NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes of Future Moon Crew
floors two and a half times deeper than the Grand Canyon. There are challenges that come with such rugged terrain, and these data will be an invaluable tool for advance planning of lunar missions." Three times during a six-month period in 2006,...
 IETC: Urban Environmental Management in China
protection objectives; (c) a comprehensive approach should be taken to control urban wastewater, air pollution, solid waste, and noise pollution; and (d) classified guidance should be provided in demonstration cities. A number of instruments were developed to deal wi...
Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned for Summer
previous years had been foiled by clouds, unavailability of imaging equipment, and lack of image resolution. But the attempts had helped pinpoint the location. In the summer of 2003, everything came together. "Last year was the hottest summer in Europe...
Welcome to the Thunder Dome
development that the showers were forced, or created by the 'sucking in' of cooler air into the urban heat island over Atlanta," says Quattrochi. Traffic versus Trees Heat islands are created through the process of urbanization. As a city grows, trees are cut down t...
Fish in the Trees (DAAC Study)
images were also converted to a graphical file format and provided to the public via the World Wide Web. Finally, the images were sent to the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) Earth Observation Research Center in Japan, where individual images could be mosaicked to form large,...
Reckoning with Winds (DAAC Study)
Annette Varani 1996 was a record year for tropical cyclones. Of 43 such storms, 20 intensified to typhoons, and six more to super-typhoons. The storms levy lasting devastation, claiming lives, inflicting injuries and causing millions of dollars in property damages...
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