• Using 40 years worth of images from NASA's Landsat satellites, the report dramatized the scale and severity of the problem. (icij.org)
  • NASA's Landsat satellites have consistently made history in Earth observation since the project's. (yahoo.com)
  • organisations have been utilising images from space to study land-use ever since the first satellite of NASA's Landsat program started beaming back pictures in 1972. (eco-business.com)
  • Hyperspectral imagery startup Pixxel has closed $36 million in funding as it prepares to roll out. (yahoo.com)
  • The use of WorldView-2's high-resolution multispectral imagery and automatic image analysis resulted in rapid classification of habitats. (euspaceimaging.com)
  • Rizos explains that early detection and improved prediction of the risk potential for landslides and geotechnical failure is now feasible due to affordable satellite imagery, coupled with recent advances in remote sensing, data collection and image analysis algorithms. (sc.edu)
  • Khan is referring to the rise of precision agriculture, the theory of incorporating innovative technology like remote sensing, robotics, machine learning and the Internet of things (IoT), as well as satellite imagery, into agricultural practices. (eco-business.com)
  • Product Marketing Manager in the Imagery & Remote Sensing team at Esri with a passion for AI and big data analytics. (esri.com)
  • Principal Product manager on the Imagery team at Esri, with a zeal for remote sensing, AI and everything imagery. (esri.com)
  • Our deep learning approach allows to improve the utility of the entire Landsat archive, the only existing global medium-resolution free-access satellite archive dating back to the 1970s. (ku.dk)
  • Landsat 8 and 7 satellites have 16 days revisit time and they have 8 days shift between them. (stackexchange.com)
  • We are going to be taking data from the Landsat 8 project, which does require registering a free USGS account, but then we get access to up-to-date high-quality satellite imagery, for free . (tylermw.com)
  • This is partially because people have been able to use the NASA Landsat satellites, with the first having been released in 1972. (techiediva.com)
  • The rapid pace of new commercial satellite constellation launches has led to a significant increase in the amount and availability of geospatial imagery, DARPA researchers point out. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • Satellogic designs, manufactures and operates its own constellation of Earth observation satellites. (gpsworld.com)
  • The company aims to expand its constellation to more than 200 satellites by 2025 for daily global coverage of the entire surface of the Earth. (gpsworld.com)
  • Spectra AI makes use of imagery from BlackSky's on-demand satellite constellation as well as other sources to provide global real-time environmental monitoring. (doshared.com)
  • Launch logistics are being handled by BlackSky's former sister company, Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. If the launch is successful, that would boost BlackSky's Global constellation to nine satellites, with 30 satellites planned by 2025. (doshared.com)
  • Connected by a constellation of satellites and rescue assets, today's modern, highly accurate GPS-equipped Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) and personal locator beacons (PLB), which were developed as part of the International Cospas-Sarsat programme , could be your lifesaver in an emergency. (blogspot.com)
  • MEOSAR will integrate into this system using a series of search and rescue (SAR) transponders aboard Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system , the Russian Glonass space based navigation system and the US Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation to report signals through Cospas-Sarsat search and rescue beacons in the 406.0-406.1 MHz band. (blogspot.com)
  • It is also working with the 38th institute of the giant state-owned enterprise China Electronics Technology Group (CETC) to build a 96-satellite " Tianxian " SAR constellation. (spacenews.com)
  • Geospatial intelligence company Orbital Insight has partnered with Satellogic , a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection. (gpsworld.com)
  • This approach aligns well with our philosophy of making geospatial intelligence efficient, intuitive, and simple so that our customers can get timely insights, make critical decisions, and respond faster. (gpsworld.com)
  • New satellite imagery analysis by Amnesty International gives the first comprehensive view of how thousands of structures, including several schools, were demolished in sudden forced evictions that left more than 4,000 families homeless on the outskirts of Somalia's capital Mogadishu in late December. (amnesty.ca)
  • New satellite images analyzed by Amnesty International show the horrific aftermath of a Boko Haram attack that devastated in Rann, north-east Nigeria, displacing more than 9,000 people earlier this week. (amnesty.org)
  • Haluk Bayraktar, center-left, signs a deal to build a drone maintenance and training center in Kyiv in September 2021. (yahoo.com)
  • The long-term development policy of Mongolia, its priorities, and strategies for their implementation and expected outcomes are defined in the MDG-based Comprehensive National Development Strategy of Mongolia in two phases: first, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and intensive development of its economy in 2007-2015, and second, to make a transition to knowledge-based economy in 2016-2021. (who.int)
  • The $310,819 grant will develop techniques that use satellite radar imagery and other geospatial data to monitor for precursors to hazardous ground conditions surrounding railway tracks. (sc.edu)
  • Working at a local site, the team conducts ground measurements to investigate how satellite radar data can be used to detect and monitor moisture changes in the railway track and slopes, as well as small and large-scale deformations of the ground surface. (sc.edu)
  • The GCA program seeks to enable instant access to the most up-to-date images anywhere in the world, as well as cutting-edge analysis tools by aggregating vast amounts of commercial and open-source satellite data from optical and RF sensors, as well as from synthetic aperture radar (SAR). (militaryaerospace.com)
  • This satellite image of the scene, obtained using synthetic-aperture radar, shows the kind resolution that is possible with this technology. (ieee.org)
  • To get to our analysis, we will first need to create a Sentinel-1 SAR analysis ready dataset using tools from our Synthetic Aperture Radar toolset. (esri.com)
  • HELSINKI - The U.S. has sanctioned a Chinese small satellite manufacturer for allegedly supplying Russia's Wagner Group with radar satellite imagery of Ukraine to support its combat operations. (spacenews.com)
  • Spacety provided synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery orders of locations in Ukraine to Terra Tech, a Russia-based technology firm, according to the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. (spacenews.com)
  • For this work, the team used NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs and a cuDNN -accelerated deep learning framework to train a convolutional neural network on open source data from Digital Globe and Planet Labs to detect human-made features from satellite imagery. (nvidia.com)
  • Unlike existing works which apply convolutional neural networks on manually annotated, disaster-specific datasets, this method relies only on readily-available datasets for common man-made features in satellite imagery, such as roads and buildings, the researchers explained. (nvidia.com)
  • Our team has used a type of AI known as a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) to study satellite imagery and identify some types of poverty with a level of accuracy close to that of household surveys. (lu.se)
  • U.S. military researchers needed a way for intelligence analysts quickly to access and analyze a growing amount of satellite imagery using cloud computing. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • It will give researchers access to frequently updated high-resolution imagery via BlackSky's Spectra AI geospatial data platform. (doshared.com)
  • All data are made available to the public and to other researchers through the ICOS Carbon Portal . (lu.se)
  • Each year, more than 200 papers are presented at the three days long European Transport Conference, making this an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners and academics. (lu.se)
  • However, a revival of interest has accompanied major advances in the geographical sciences and technologies such as geographical epidemiology, spatial data analysis, geographical information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS), that make it possible for public health researchers to more easily investigate their spatial data [2] and consequently to understand the role of "place" in community health in a scientific manner [3]. (who.int)
  • Three very different stories show how satellite images, until recently confined to the weather report, are now the stuff of front-page news. (icij.org)
  • Just like photographs, satellite images without context can distort the truth. (icij.org)
  • But the learning curve for using satellite images is steep, and for the most part, journalists have lagged behind other users, including NGOs, in making full use of them. (icij.org)
  • Jacobs picked out images from satellite passes when the skies were free from cloud cover. (icij.org)
  • The Daily Mail didn't say exactly where the satellite images came from, what dates they were taken, and what changes, if any were made on those images. (icij.org)
  • Satellite images with a resolution of less than one metre can be used to identify a wide range of objects such as buildings, forests, orchards, fields, fences, rivers, railways and roads. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the same time as improving resolution, satellite images make spectral analysis accessible, beyond the visible light spectrum. (wikipedia.org)
  • The development of analyses based on satellite images has been hampered by a number of factors: the cost of acquiring these images, the decision by satellite imagery companies not to include images of the country in their public catalogues for political or technical reasons, or simply as a management decision. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite the name "high-resolution image" the analysis of satellite images is hampered by the quality of the images available, leaving more or less room for interpretation as well as by the frequency of image capture. (wikipedia.org)
  • Over-extrapolation from satellite images can lead to major errors in analysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • North Korea is adapting to the high level of surveillance of its territory by satellite images, so the examination of any satellite image must take into account the possibility of concealment, camouflage or even deception by the North Koreans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some NGOs use satellite images to study the progress of their project as they are not always on the ground[citation needed]. (wikipedia.org)
  • Optical satellite images are important for environmental monitoring. (ku.dk)
  • This work proposes a deep learning approach for cleaning and imputing satellite images, which could serve as a reliable preprocessing step for spatial and spatio-temporal analyzes. (ku.dk)
  • More specifically, a coherent and cloud-free image for a specific target date and region is created based on a sequence of images of that region obtained at previous dates. (ku.dk)
  • Amnesty International's analysis of satellite images from before, during and after the demolitions clearly shows that thousands of structures were turned to rubble over the course of the two-day operation. (amnesty.ca)
  • These satellite images give a bird's-eye view of the shocking scale of these forced evictions that destroyed the possessions, dwellings and livelihoods of thousands of vulnerable families," said Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes. (amnesty.ca)
  • Satellite images have highlighted the chaotic situation at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International airport on 16 August. (flightglobal.com)
  • Satellite images are numerous and weakly exploited: it is urgent to develop an efficient and fast indexing/retrieval system to easy their access. (videolectures.net)
  • You may choose to buy commercial images from DigitalGlobe, Airbus, Urthecast which provide on-demand satellite tasking. (stackexchange.com)
  • You can literally send a satellite to a specific location at a certain time to collect images or you can use free imagery browsers with regularly updated imagery from active satellites, like LandViewer . (stackexchange.com)
  • High-resolution satellite images, which used to cost tens of thousands of dollars, now can be had for the price of a cup of coffee. (ieee.org)
  • What's more, with the recent advances in artificial intelligence , companies can more easily extract the information they need from huge digital data sets, including ones composed of satellite images. (ieee.org)
  • Using such images to make business decisions on the fly might seem like science fiction, but it is already happening within some industries. (ieee.org)
  • But GEO satellites are also appropriate when you want to monitor some region of Earth by capturing images over time. (ieee.org)
  • Over 8,000 satellites are orbiting Earth today, capturing images like this, of the Louisiana coast. (yahoo.com)
  • Before and after Hurricane Ian: Satellite images show significant damage to Sanibel Island vacation. (yahoo.com)
  • The satellite images reveal the true extent of the devastating attack which took place on 14 January in the Borno State town, which hosted thousands of civilians internally displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram. (amnesty.org)
  • Yet until recently what those satellite images could be used for was relatively limited. (eco-business.com)
  • The advantage with satellite images is it is near real-time data and can cover a large area in a short time," says Abhay Swarup Mittal, chief executive of EOfactory.ai, who points out that they also eliminate the need for costly manual data collection and the potential for human error. (eco-business.com)
  • TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X. The satellites use phased array synthetic aperture radars (SAR) operating in the X-band (31 mm, frequency 9.6 GHz) to acquire high-quality images of the Earth for environmental planning, land use and natural resource exploration, disaster relief, insurance and defence applications. (blogspot.com)
  • Formosat-2, a satellite operated by Taiwan's National Space Organization, was able to capture not only the aftermath of the fire, but also regularly-updated images of the surrounding area. (techiediva.com)
  • Satellites captured the fires as they happened, before and after images, and smoke trails as the fires burned. (techiediva.com)
  • If you've only ever seen satellite images used for maps and news stories, you may be thinking too small. (techiediva.com)
  • The Old Nineveh Bridge is the only one left for militants or locals to cross, after U.S. air strikes took out four of Mosul's main river crossings, damage clearly visible in satellite images (live 4 a.m. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The images taken by commercial satellite track with the coalition's narrative, with the damage matching up to strikes listed in Central Command's daily rundown of strikes, on Oct. 16 , Nov. 4 , and Nov. 22 . (thedailybeast.com)
  • The images also do show that bombs have surgically removed sections of the bridge mostly over land, likely to make them easier to repair, said Stratfor military analyst Sim Tack. (thedailybeast.com)
  • All satellite images in this article were collected by WorldView-3, WorldView-2 or GeoEye-1 at 30-50 cm resolution. (euspaceimaging.com)
  • The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program has purchase agreements with several other space imagery providers, including Airbus, Maxar, Planet and Spire. (doshared.com)
  • China has raised concerns over the use of U.S. commercial satellite constellations in the Ukraine conflict, including communications via SpaceX's Starlink satellites but also imagery from companies such as Maxar. (spacenews.com)
  • The People's Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of China's military forces, ran a commentary ( Chinese ) in April 2022, noting that companies such as Maxar and Black Sky provided satellite imagery of Russian troop movements to Ukraine. (spacenews.com)
  • and Maxar Technologies Inc. collaborated to enhance existing polio campaign efforts by using geographic information systems (GIS) and satellite imagery. (cdc.gov)
  • GEO satellites are positioned roughly 36,000 kilometers above the equator, where they circle in sync with Earth's rotation. (ieee.org)
  • An image tool kit allows users to choose functionality such as haze removal, image correction or a mosaic option which can build up a cloud-free composite map, particularly important in countries like India where the majority of crops are grown in the Kharif (Monsoon) season. (eco-business.com)
  • As outlined in the August 3rd, 2015 Space News article, " Canada Finds its Way To Providing GPS 3 Search and Rescue Repeaters ," funding has finally been approved for a resumption of a project to provide repeaters for the Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) satellite system. (blogspot.com)
  • MEOSAR, is an add-on to the International Cospas-Sarsat programme of satellite-based search and rescue (SAR) system established by Canada, France, the United States and the former Soviet Union in 1979. (blogspot.com)
  • Search for satellite imagery on MapQuest , the leading online mapping service. (yahoo.com)
  • Are there any other Earth observation satellites that make real-time imagery publicly available? (stackexchange.com)
  • The orbits of Earth-observation satellites generally fall into one of two categories: GEO and LEO. (ieee.org)
  • So these orbits are primarily used for observation satellites designed to track changing weather conditions over broad areas. (ieee.org)
  • One of BlackSky's Earth observation satellites is readied for launch. (doshared.com)
  • BlackSky Technology says it has secured a five-year, sole-source blanket purchase agreement with NASA for the use of high-revisit satellite imaging data in support of the space agency's Earth observation research. (doshared.com)
  • The centre organizes imagery and computes greenness indices for observation of vegetation phenology. (lu.se)
  • In domestic situations, current and historic data from the US Census Bureau and satellite imagery may be readily available. (cdc.gov)
  • The coalition has disabled four of the five bridges connecting east and west Mosul," and created roads through the desert to get around ISIS ambushes and roadblocks, the coalition's deputy commander Major General Rupert Jones told reporters Thursday. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The analysis is constructed with less information. (wikipedia.org)
  • The number of experts in the analysis of satellite imagery in North Korea is limited, but recognition algorithms can partially mitigate this problem. (wikipedia.org)
  • Analysis of satellite imagery creates knowledge based on new data to better understand activities in North Korea in areas where data acquisition is difficult, such as infrastructure development, construction projects, smuggling activities, etc. (wikipedia.org)
  • Analysis of satellite imagery allows us to understand the development of North Korea's nuclear arsenal by observing the infrastructure and activity of nuclear sites. (wikipedia.org)
  • CNN's analysis of the imagery helps shed light on what is happening on the ground as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claim that the military has encircled the city . (yahoo.com)
  • For a comparative analysis we will be using imagery for 2004 and 2014 acquired using quickbird and worldview3 sensors with a spatial resolution of 60cm. (arcgis.com)
  • Tropical cyclone intensity analysis and forecasting from imagery. (ametsoc.org)
  • In December of 2020 , we made Amazon Location Service available in preview form for you to start building web and mobile applications with location-based features. (amazon.com)
  • This image was captured in April 2020 using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite. (ieee.org)
  • Spacety has so far launched two small C-band SAR imagery satellites, namely Hisea-1 in December 2020 and Chaohu-1 in February 2022, the latter for the Tianxian project. (spacenews.com)
  • Unlike optical imagery, SAR can be captured day or night and in any climatic condition, enabling frequent observations. (esri.com)
  • That client customisation can also include the spectral, spatial, and temporal range of the satellite imagery offered. (eco-business.com)
  • This study in Pakistan was conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of creating a spatially referenced health facility database for a medium-sized city, in a low-cost, non-resource intensive manner and to visualize the spatial relationship between hospitals and clinics in the city of Islamabad. (who.int)
  • Figure 1 in other cities in Pakistan and in other using maps created by using high-reso- shows the spatial distribution of all these developing countries would help us lution satellite imagery in conjunction health facilities in the Islamabad Capital to better understand different spatial with census data [4,5]. (who.int)
  • Until now, however, there has been no straightforward way for analysts to access and analyze all that imagery. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • GIS is a collection of science and technology tools that helps scientists and epidemiologists analyze data and make informed decisions based on the relationship between the data and geography. (cdc.gov)
  • It is probably less likely that you have a current and accurate aerial photograph or satellite image. (aquaturfintl.com)
  • Governmental agencies provides Swedish society - the public and private sectors, the general public and a wide range of other users - with geographic information in the form of maps, geodata, aerial photography, satellite imagery and statistics. (lu.se)
  • You can use satellite imagery to pack your maps with information and provide more context to the map users. (amazon.com)
  • To get started with satellite imagery maps, go to the Amazon Location console. (amazon.com)
  • There are four major ways that wine maps are made: survey style specifications, satellite imagery, commune specifications, and vineyard plots. (delongwine.com)
  • We present this information in the name of transparency and in the spirit of in vino veritas, as maps, like wine are only as good what they're made from and how they're made. (delongwine.com)
  • The maps of Argentina, Chile, and New Zealand are constructed this way. (delongwine.com)
  • So I'm going to walk you through how to obtain the data required to make these types of maps, as well as the R code used to generate them. (tylermw.com)
  • You will work with real-world data on a number of domains and problems, such as simulating the dynamics of change in the natural and built environment, identifying suitable locations for renewable energy power plants, predicting crime hot-spots, and producing effective maps to visualise natural- and human-geography applications. (bbk.ac.uk)
  • You can also create your own custom map with My Maps , a feature that lets you add layers, markers, shapes and more to your map . (yahoo.com)
  • Field staff should begin by creating general reference maps ( 1,2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In a context of short, rapid media cycles, brief or incomplete analyses based on satellite imagery can lead to the dissemination of misinformation, even unintentionally. (wikipedia.org)
  • It therefore holds scientific and societal potential for future analyses conducted on data from this and other satellite imagery repositories. (ku.dk)
  • Recent methodological advances, including Bayesian approaches, combined with fast-growing computational capabilities, permit more informative analyses than previously possible, including the incorporation of data at different scales, from satellites to individual-level survey information. (bvsalud.org)
  • Satellite imagery is used to monitor agricultural and food production. (wikipedia.org)
  • Explore worldwide satellite imagery and 3D buildings and terrain for hundreds of cities. (yahoo.com)
  • State and local public health authorities, other infectious disease experts, and CDC will reexamine currently reportable diseases, establish criteria for making a disease reportable, and explore ways to enhance rapid reporting of cases from clinical laboratories and health care practitioners. (cdc.gov)
  • GCA seeks to create scalable computer cloud-based repository of global satellite data, make it accessible via common interfaces, and start developing analytics-as-a-service for U.S. military users. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • We provide news, data, analytics and advisory services to connect the aviation community globally and help organisations shape their business strategies, identify new opportunities and make better decisions faster. (flightglobal.com)
  • The partnership will integrate Satellogic's high-frequency, high-resolution collections of satellite imagery and full-motion video into Orbital Insight's platform and offer customers better access to high-quality data, improve the revisit rate, and reduce the cost of running analytics. (gpsworld.com)
  • Advanced geospatial analytics require access to high-resolution, high-frequency satellite imagery and simple tasking," said Kevin O'Brien, CEO, Orbital Insight. (gpsworld.com)
  • The third story using satellite imagery this past week came from the Daily Mail and it says that contrary to the claims made by Al Gore and climate-change scientists, the Arctic sea ice cap has expanded since 2012. (icij.org)
  • Satellite imaging not only allowed scientists to track the hurricane as it moved across the United States, but also see the destruction it left in its path, making it easier to understand the hurricane's movement. (techiediva.com)
  • With satellite imagery, officials and scientists were able to track the hurricane as it developed, including being able to observe it at peak intensity and understanding where it was likely to go next. (techiediva.com)
  • If you want to see Calgary like you would from space using satellite imagery, we have something better - a large 42 inch by 50 inch laminated map of Calgary using orthophotos. (maptown.com)
  • Israeli troops have moved deeper along that western stretch, towards the sea, according to European Space Agency satellite imagery from Wednesday, which indicated that the forces were approximately less than a kilometer away from completely encircling Gaza City. (yahoo.com)
  • Space agencies and commercial imaging companies are trying to reduce interval between image acquisition and delivery, but the most frequently updated imagery in free public use is still the one from weather satellites. (stackexchange.com)
  • BlackSky's satellites are manufactured in Tukwila, Wash., by LeoStella, the Virginia-based company's joint venture with Thales Alenia Space. (doshared.com)
  • This study aimed to evaluate a new satellite-based index and apply machine learning algorithms to improve the accuracy of mapping glaciers. (lu.se)
  • Over the last eight years, their Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been helping ensure that customers in a range of sectors, including agriculture, are able to fully leverage the benefits of satellite imagery. (eco-business.com)
  • The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in cooperation with the Danube Carpathian program and European Union, commissioned a geographic survey to create land management plan for the region. (euspaceimaging.com)
  • Using geographic information science, systems, or software (collectively known as GIS), boundaries can be drawn for the area of interest and from which specific GIS data files, known as shapefiles , can be created (2,4,5). (cdc.gov)
  • The satellite-based Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) has been widely used for mapping snow cover and glaciers around the globe. (lu.se)
  • Every day, satellites circling overhead capture trillions of pixels of high-resolution imagery of the surface below. (ieee.org)
  • When the WWF was seeking a partner to complete a topographical survey of the Hartibaciu region, it chose Muncons for its deep experience in high-resolution imagery projects. (euspaceimaging.com)
  • Muncons SRL deployed WorldView-2 high-resolution satellite imagery with an integrated GIS solution and web portal to develop a land management plan used by a variety of takeholders. (euspaceimaging.com)
  • instead what appeared to be one image was made part of a graphic and readers were not told whether this image was a photoshopped version of the original. (icij.org)
  • That helicopter is using Near Earth Autonomy's sensor-based autonomy suite, a hardware package that creates a 3-D image of the surrounding environment. (flightglobal.com)
  • Given that the CCMEO mandate is to provide access to satellite image data and products to both government and public users, it seem reasonable to believe that some of this new data will eventually begin filtering out into the private sector. (blogspot.com)
  • With this imagery, people can see how an area looked just before a natural disaster, then compare that image to a shot of the very same area just after. (techiediva.com)
  • The centre will process the imagery resulting from the UAV campaigns into geographically co-registered image products, e.g. orthophotos, DEMs, and vegetation indices. (lu.se)
  • Imagery is used to observe regional and national development patterns and trends or to observe activities violating sanctions against North Korea such as fishing activities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The satellite imagery corroborates reports from the humanitarian NGO Médecins Sans Frontières, which said Rann was "like a graveyard" in the aftermath of Monday's attack. (amnesty.org)
  • Satellite imagery and footage have also shown Israeli forces on Salah al-Din Road, a highway running the length of the strip, seemingly blocking anyone still in Gaza City from moving south. (yahoo.com)
  • Ukraine Khmelnitsky explosion New satellite imagery of an ammunition and explosives storage site. (yahoo.com)
  • Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones were a valuable weapon for Ukraine after Russia invaded last year. (yahoo.com)
  • Despite that trend, the drone's manufacturer, Baykar, has announced ambitious plans to construct a plant in Ukraine, a project indicating that despite the TB2's perceived shortcomings, Bayraktar drones still have a future in Ukrainian service. (yahoo.com)
  • It also reportedly plans on constructing the newer Akinci drone at its plant in Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • Once we have the model, we will monitor for the development of such conditions over time and make predictions of failure events. (sc.edu)
  • This makes it possible for your application users to obtain accurate travel-time estimates based on live road and traffic information. (amazon.com)
  • E ver since I released rayshader to the public, there's been one question that comes up time and time again: "How do I use rayshader to overlay satellite imagery onto a 3D surface? (tylermw.com)
  • The storm was moving northwest at 20 mph, and it slated to make landfall in northern Honshu early Wednesday local time. (seattletimes.com)
  • First by evaluating the usage of satellite night-time light imagery as a tool for monitoring decentralised off-grid electrification projects' success, and second, to assess a wide array of socioeconomic development following the electrification projects. (lu.se)
  • Access to the country is limited and satellite imagery is sometimes the only way to get an overview of important political or military locations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Create an account to access more content and features on IEEE Spectrum , including the ability to save articles to read later, download Spectrum Collections, and participate in conversations with readers and editors. (ieee.org)
  • Through a user-friendly front-end dashboard, customers can access the different analytic data at the level that suits their decision-making needs, be that at a village, sub-district, province or a country level. (eco-business.com)
  • For this to be effective, of course, people have to have access to high-quality satellite imagery . (techiediva.com)
  • To assess the association between park access and HBP, we built multilevel logistic models to account for variation in HBP by zip code. (cdc.gov)
  • Boeing because I think any advances in ground traffic convenience will actually make non just air travel, but also tourism more attractive. (4brad.com)
  • Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created a step change in how to measure poverty and other human development indicators. (lu.se)
  • Published 15 June 2017 A painting made by local villagers in Tanzania - it depicts how they perceive their natural surroundings. (lu.se)
  • To get a better understanding of how land use was affected, Sentinel-2 imagery was used over the area of interest. (esri.com)
  • Understanding the influence of the natural and built environment is possible with GIS ( 1-3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • During a natural disaster or a chemical release, imagery can be useful for understanding the extent of damage, to track population movements, and to guide the planning and logistics of travel for fieldwork. (cdc.gov)
  • Two of BlackSky's satellites were lost in May due to a Rocket Lab launch failure, but Rocket Lab is planning to launch two more satellites from New Zealand as early as next week. (doshared.com)
  • The program used satellite imagery to identify the position of remote Nigerian communities whose populations needed vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • On the same day, August 28, the ninth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Pro Publica and the New Orleans nonprofit news site The Lens unveiled "Losing Ground," an interactive map using satellite imagery that showed how nearly 2,000 square miles of coastal land in southeastern Louisiana had disappeared in the past 80 years as levees, canals and oil wells and pipelines were built. (icij.org)
  • These measurements will be used to develop a model correlating satellite imagery and other geospatial information to conditions that are considered precursors to ground hazards, such as those that trigger landslides," Rizos says. (sc.edu)
  • Israeli ground forces are closing in on Gaza City , the largest and most densely packed population center in the Palestinian enclave, satellite imagery and videos from open and official sources suggest. (yahoo.com)
  • Viewed from the ground, these satellites appear to be stationary, in the sense that their bearing and elevation remain constant. (ieee.org)
  • Additional resources arrived and while they were working to lower the patient to the ground, the building collapsed. (wnct.com)
  • The patient and several firefighters all fell to the ground alongside the building debris. (wnct.com)
  • Imagery via Google Earth of the country has enabled researcher Benjamin Katzeff to analyse markets in North Korea by their location their size and geographical distribution, and then approximate economic aggregates, such as reported taxes. (wikipedia.org)
  • It has 22 operational satellites in low Earth orbit with plans to launch up to 12 additional satellites by the end of the year. (gpsworld.com)
  • The operators of the Himawari-8 weather satellite provide a fresh full-disc picture of Earth every 10 minutes . (stackexchange.com)
  • Being stationary with respect to Earth means that GEO satellites are always within range of a downlink station, so they can send data back to Earth in minutes. (ieee.org)
  • The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8, which peers downward at the Pacific from 22,241 above Earth, revealed Nepartak to be lopsided and asymmetrical. (seattletimes.com)
  • While the imagery is low-resolution, it appears to show the tracks from heavy armored vehicles snaking across the strip, south of the urban center, nearly reaching the coast. (yahoo.com)
  • Because the satellites are so high up, the resolution of that imagery is quite coarse, however. (ieee.org)
  • The project also aims to create analytical applications to enable analysts to draw specific information from the aggregated data. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • Quantis and Barry Callebaut partnered on an innovative carbon accounting project that combines satellite data and carbon footprint methodology. (greenbiz.com)
  • Its latest satellite, Beiyou-1 (BUPT-1), was launched Jan. 15 and developed for the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and also carried science payloads for the academic Tiange astrophysics project. (spacenews.com)
  • The ultimate goal of the project is to create land management plans and develop territorial planning guidelines in the region by integrating the components of biodiversity, conservation in territorial development, and natural resource use. (euspaceimaging.com)
  • It triggered a nearly unprecedented tsunami, with 18-foot waves and an estimated 4,300 death toll that made it the deadliest earthquake in the country since 2006. (techiediva.com)
  • Simply put, most of the plants and soil in our environment are made up of carbon, so when we remove those things, and degrade the soil, that carbon goes back into the atmosphere," explained Jon Dettling, global director of services and innovation at Quantis, during the GreenBiz-Quantis webcast on this topic in mid-November. (greenbiz.com)
  • Agriculture has always been well suited to satellite technology," says Zara Khan, director of business development at Planet , a leading global provider of satellite imagery. (eco-business.com)
  • During floods, clouds render optical satellite imagery. (esri.com)
  • In fact, the coldest satellite-derived cloud top temperatures, signifying the tallest clouds, were not present near within the cloud shield associated with Nepartak, but rather the trailing frontal system well to its south. (seattletimes.com)
  • Difficult terrain and limited transportation can make getting to these populations a challenge. (cdc.gov)
  • The use of satellite imagery has been boosted by technological improvements, the expansion of the satellite imagery industry and public interest in North Korea, prompting satellite imagery companies to capture more frequently and highlight this product on their catalogues. (wikipedia.org)
  • Driven by scientific and technological revolutions, the humankind is making a transition from an industrialized to a knowledge-based, globalizing society. (who.int)
  • In the option 'Input Mask Polygons' we can set a mask layer to limit the tool to export training data for only those areas which have slum in it, we can create one by generating a grid on slum boundary layer's extent and dissolving only those polygons which contained slum to a single multipolygon feature. (arcgis.com)
  • Climate change makes surface waters less reliable and consequently adds up the pressure on groundwater resources, which are already the main supply for agriculture, industry, and drinking sectors. (lu.se)