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A satellite view of the Amazon wildfire on Aug. 13. (NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership.)

Amazon fires in Brazil can be seen from space

August 21, 2019

Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil have hit record numbers, and satellites have been able to capture […]


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Esri explains how mapping technology is used for marine safety

July 30, 2019

Esri’s Jesse Smith discusses how the U.S. Coast Guard’s International Ice Patrol is using Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise platform […]


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How NASA captured high-resolution Moon imagery in 1960s

July 29, 2019

I was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing on July 16 and our focus on […]


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Monitoring the Earth for geopolitical and economic insights

July 26, 2019

The new Earth Monitor tool draws from the Airbus imagery archive and satellite tasking capabilities to provide advanced […]


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NASA program aids with disaster relief efforts

July 24, 2019

Satellite imagery and mapping have proven to be critical technologies when it comes to disaster relief efforts. The […]


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NASA Disasters Program offers satellite imagery, maps for disaster response

July 21, 2019

Jeremy Kirkendall, senior GIS administrator for the NASA Disasters Program, gives GPS World an overview of the program […]


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A difference image showing the extent of deforestation in Madagascar between 2016 and 2018; generated from two Sentinel-2 satellite images. (Image: LandViewer)

Landviewer’s new change detection tool runs in a browser

June 19, 2019

A major use of remote sensing data is to compare images of an area taken at different times […]


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TCarta to map seafloor around remote Pacific island nation

February 27, 2019

TCarta Marine, a global provider of geospatial products and services, has been contracted by the United Kingdom Hydrographic […]


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