Shanghai study links land cover with relative summer surface heat
A four-summer Landsat study of Shanghai found that built-up land consistently occupied the warmest relative thermal positions, while NDBI made ...
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Satellites, Drones and Radar Join Forces to Track the World’s Worst Water Weed
A new review of 56 studies shows how satellites, drones and radar are transforming the fight against water hyacinth, one ...
Satellites Reveal Shrinking Wilds in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains
High in the southeastern highlands of Ethiopia, the Bale Mountains rise through an extraordinary ladder of life: dense montane forest ...
Satellite Fire Maps Hide a Split Personality: New Study Decodes What Sentinel-2 Indices Really See After Wildfire
A field study in a fire-scarred Turkish Pinus brutia forest shows that the Sentinel-2 indices dNBR, RdNBR, and NDVI each ...
Satellites Track Wheat Growth Stages in Saudi Arabia’s Desert Farmland
Researchers showed that simple curve-based rules applied to freely available Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellite data can accurately retrieve five key ...
Satellites and Street View Team Up to Track Invasive Plants in Indian City
Researchers in Lucknow, India, combined free Sentinel-2 satellite phenology, MaxEnt habitat modelling and Google Street View checks to locate and ...
Neighborhood building density emerges as strongest predictor of home destruction in 2025 Palisades Fire
A spatially validated GeoAI analysis of 12,081 damage inspections from the 2025 Palisades Fire finds neighborhood building density was the ...
Satellites and Decision Trees Reveal How Climate Stress and Human Pressure Are Degrading a Nigerian Landscape
A 35-year satellite analysis of Wudil, Nigeria, links a 1.8 °C temperature rise, a 15 percent rainfall decline, and a ...
Machine-Discovered Vegetation Index Beats NDVI for Mapping Crops From Space
A systematic search of more than a thousand candidate vegetation indices found that a simple four-band formula outperforms NDVI for ...
Satellite NDVI Spread Reveals Hidden Soil Differences Inside Single Farm Fields
Researchers in Spain show that the standard deviation of satellite-derived NDVI, especially during crop senescence, offers a low-cost way to ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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