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Posted inScience Updates

Multicolor Terrain Mapping Documents Critical Environments

by J. C. Fernandez-Diaz, W. E. Carter, R. Shrestha and C. L. Glennie 14 June 20161 November 2021

The Titan airborne topographic laser system takes spatial and spectral data at three wavelengths at once, mapping threats from climate change and ecological disasters in regions with complex terrain.

Clouds and smoke over southeastern Asia in March 2015.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Measuring Atmospheric Aerosols Despite the Clouds

by W. Yan 2 June 20162 March 2023

Researchers devise ways for remote sensors to integrate aerosol content above clouds into current methods of measurement.

Satellite image showing a textbook Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) on 24 November 2010 that stretches all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tropical Rainfall Intensifies While the Doldrums Narrow

by Sarah Stanley 6 May 20168 March 2022

Scientists show long-term changes in the Intertropical Convergence Zone's location, extent, and rainfall intensity.

Lava spewing from the vent on the side of the Fogo volcano during the 2014 eruption.
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As Lava Flows, Refined Model Predicts a Path

by E. Deatrick 4 May 201627 October 2021

Simulations that melded volcano topography, satellite observations, and virtual lava accurately anticipated the destruction of villages 18 months ago by Cape Verde's Fogo volcano.

Experimental setup at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where the course was hosted.
Posted inScience Updates

Mexico City Hosts a Course on Remote Sensing for Latin Americans

by M. Grutter, J. C. Antuña-Marrero and C. Rudamas 4 May 20166 March 2023

Course on Remote Sensing Techniques Applied to Atmospheric Chemistry; Mexico City, Mexico, 7–11 December 2015

Unnamed crater in eastern Hesperia Planum, Mars.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Martian Carbonates Spotted by the Orbiter

by Kate Wheeling 3 May 201628 July 2022

The minerals identified by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provide more evidence that the planet may have once been habitable.

Posted inScience Updates

Joint Polar Satellite System Algorithm Team Reviews Past, Future

by L. Zhou, M. Divakarla and T. Atkins 28 March 201623 January 2023

Center for Satellite Applications and Research Joint Polar Satellite System Annual Science Team Meeting; College Park, Maryland, 24–28 August 2015

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Recent Studies Crack Open New Views of Glacial Crevasses

by Sarah Stanley 16 March 201614 October 2022

Scientists review 60 years of direct and remote observations of crevasses and the models used to simulate them.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Icelandic Eruption Caused Record-Breaking Sulfur Dioxide Release

by Sarah Stanley 14 March 20168 October 2021

Satellite and ground-based data reveal sulfur dioxide flux, trace element release, and preeruption magma movement.

Posted inScience Updates

Quantifying Terrestrial Snow from Space

by D. H. Kang, E. Kim and D. Hall 26 February 201626 February 2016

MicroSnow2 and SnowEx Workshops; Columbia, Maryland, 13–17 July 2015

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