Satellites and Models Combine to Map River Depth and Flow Worldwide
A new satellite altimetry and modeling framework delivers global estimates of river discharge and mean depth at more than 26,000 ...
Tag: satellite remote sensing
Satellites and Machine Learning Reveal Hidden Water Use Patterns in California Farms
A new PLOS Water study combines Sentinel-2 satellite data, OpenET evapotranspiration estimates, and unsupervised machine learning to reveal 13 distinct ...
Cloud Base Lasers Offer a New Way to Measure the Ocean’s Hidden Humidity
Researchers show that laser measurements of low cloud base height can be inverted to estimate the near-surface humidity over tropical ...
Why Some Power Plant Pollution Plumes Vanish From Satellite View
A machine learning analysis of over 6,000 power plants shows that identical emissions can be visible or invisible to satellites ...
Satellite Skin Temperature Gets a Memory Boost in Land Models Through Joint Soil Updates
Researchers have devised an ensemble-based scheme that jointly updates soil temperature and moisture, turning fleeting satellite land surface temperature observations ...
Satellite Soil Moisture Data Sharpens Watershed Models Without Sacrificing Streamflow Skill
A new study shows that calibrating watershed models with downscaled, bias-corrected satellite soil moisture data dramatically improves the representation of ...
Sandy Beaches Behave as Chaotic Oscillators, Satellite Records Reveal
A decade of satellite observations shows that shoreline–sandbar systems follow deterministic but chaotic dynamics, explaining why beaches resist long-term prediction.
Physics Meets AI: New Transfer Learning Tool Lets Weather Satellites Share Their Knowledge
A new physics-constrained transfer learning framework lets AI retrieval algorithms trained on one weather satellite work accurately on another, improving ...
Satellites Reveal Pakistan’s Hidden Methane Super-Emitters
A new satellite study combining Sentinel-5P TROPOMI and NASA EMIT observations reveals rising methane concentrations across Pakistan and pinpoints oil ...
Hidden Warm Water Is Eating Away at East Antarctica’s Porpoise Bay Glaciers
A new study finds that glaciers draining into Porpoise Bay in East Antarctica are thinning, retreating and speeding up as ...
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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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