JOHN SCHOTT: IMAGING SCIENCE IS A REALLY BIG FIELD, AND THEN REMOTE SENSING IS A SUBSET OF THAT. IT’S THE IMAGES OF THE EARTH FROM AERIAL AND SATELLITE SYSTEMS. SO GOOGLE EARTH, YOU KNOW EVERYBODY...
Flooding is the most common and most costly natural disaster in the country. In the last two years, more than 8.5 billion in damages more than 130 lives lost How many are there of you? -...
As a Landsat satellite flies over the surface of the Earth the instruments aboard the satellite are able to view a swath 185 kilometers wide and collect images along that swath as the satellite...
When we investigate land cover using the instruments aboard Landsat satellites, we collect sets of data for different wavelengths. Some are in the infrared, and others correspond to blue, green, and...
In June 2012 the US together with other partner states and the United Nations office for Outer Space Affairs organized an exhibition on the 40th anniversary of the Landsat programme at the Vienna...
My name's Robert Kennedy. I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. All of these images are numbers. Now we can display them on a...
As a Landsat satellite flies over the surface of the Earth the instruments aboard the satellite are able to view a swath 185 kilometers wide and collect images along that swath as the satellite...
TOM LOVELAND: Landsat has become one of the more common sets of remote sensing images. It was launched in July of 1972. That started the process of continuous observation of the land surface of the...
Music Jim Irons, LDCM Project Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center: Our land cover and land use are currently changing at a rate unprecedented in human history. In order for us to manage and cope...
Narrator: The second-largest country in Africa lies in the heart of the continent. Known as the DRC, the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffered civil war between 1997 and 2003. Perhaps the only...