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Tag Archives: climate observation
Suomi NPP: Setting a New Standard for Global Climate Monitoring
On October 28, 2011, the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) spacecraft lifted off from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California and began its scheduled five year mission as a new installment to the NASA fleet of Earth observing systems. Now … Continue reading
VISualize 2013: Global Change and Environmental Monitoring – SPOILER ALERT!
It’s that time of year once again when thought leaders in remote sensing science and research will come together to collaborate and share their current work – this time with the focus placed on Environmental Monitoring and Global Change. While … Continue reading
VIS Supporting NASA DEVELOP program with ENVI &IDL Software
In September I posted about the NASA run NSERC Student Airborne Research Program, which Exelis VIS supports with ENVI and IDL software. Today I’d like to talk about a new program that Exelis VIS will also be supporting, NASA DEVELOP. … Continue reading
Observation of Winter Polar Phenomena With Suomi NPP
The advanced low light band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite is providing some really beautiful and informative new Earth imaging opportunities. This “day-night” band detects light in a range of wavelengths from … Continue reading
Imagery Reveals a Record Breaking 2012 Fire Season
Have you, like me, been wondering whether the 2012 fire season would turn out to be a record breaker? Here in Boulder and throughout the Western U.S. we were breathing smoke much of the summer. Even in December large fires … Continue reading
Global Warming, Coastal Erosion, & other AGU Gems
While running along the Boulder Creek Path today in shorts and short sleeves, I was trying to wrap my head around the fact that it’s early December on the Front Range in CO. Normally I would be trying to find … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Monitoring, Remote Sensing
Tagged AGU, AGU 12, AGU 2012, arctic coastal change, arctic sea ice, automated mapping, change detection, climate change, climate observation, coastal change, coastal erosion, environmental monitoring, global warming, Landsat, remote sensing
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New Technologies & Natural Disaster Response
There doesn’t seem to be a week that goes by when there isn’t some natural disaster or extreme weather event that severely affects the human population. Two weeks ago it was Hurricane Sandy that affected 8.5 million people in New … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Monitoring, Geospatial Data
Tagged climate observation, environmental monitoring, flood, flooding, food costs, food production, geospatial imagery, high resolution imagery, hurricane sandy, Natural Disaster Response, natural disasters, pleiades, pleiades satellite, Sandy, satellites, spot 6 satellite, spot 7 satellite
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The Ever Changing Landscape
Looking around at the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we can see changes everywhere. The landscape has changed on all scales for many of our eastern states after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast on October 29th. One … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Monitoring, Remote Sensing
Tagged change detection, climate change, climate observation, coast line change, ENVI, environmental monitoring, Hurricane, hurricane sandy, image analysis, national geodetic survey, NOAA, ocean city md, remote sensing, Sandy, shoreline change
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Mitigating the spread of Ash Dieback
The newswires have been alive over the last few days with the news that Ash Dieback disease has now arrived in the United Kingdom. This devastating disease destroyed 90% of Denmark’s trees and already 100,000 in the UK; it … Continue reading
Posted in Remote Sensing
Tagged aborists, ash dieback, ash dieback disease, ashtag, classification, climate observation, defloiation classification, ENVI, environmental monitoring, forest damange, geospatial analysis, geospatial data, gps, LiDAR, remote sensing, tree disease, unveristy of east anglia
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GIS in the New Forest
A couple of weekends ago, just before the warmth of summer finally disappeared, the family and I decided to head down to the New Forest, which I believe is the largest tract of unclosed heathland and forest in the heavily populated … Continue reading
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