A New NASA Satellite Will Map Earth’s Rising Seas
SWOT could turn out to be a major improvement over measurements by previous satellites. “Instead of a ‘pencil beam’ moving along the Earth’s surface from a…
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The Spooky Quest to Build a Google Maps for Graveyards
A walk through the 167-year-old Carlisle Cemetery in the northwest of England took Tim Viney past the graves of World War soldiers, Victorian monuments, a…
Satellite Data Shows How Russia Has Destroyed Ukrainian Grain
Almost 10 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain has been affected by the Russian invasion, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery. One in six of…
How Landsat Chronicled 50 Years on a Changing, Fiery Planet
Around 2030, the Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from the numerical naming convention. It will…
Spotting Objects From Space Is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder
This spring, when the teams submitted their results to IARPA, evaluator teams graded how well each one did. In June, the teams learned who was moving on to…
Satellites and AI Can Help Solve Big Problems—If Given the Chance
However, as in the Amazon, identifying problem areas only gets you so far if there aren’t enough resources to act on those findings. The Nature Conservancy…
The Census Is Broken. Can AI Fix It?
Greg Yetman is codirector of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), a part of the Climate School at Columbia University. As…