Satellites, Lasers and Radar Join Forces to Weigh Ethiopia’s Forests
By fusing spaceborne LiDAR, radar and optical satellite data with field plots, researchers have produced high-resolution canopy height and biomass ...
Tag: Sentinel-2
Satellite Flood Mapping Gets Smarter: New Index Slashes False Alarms in Cities
A new Enhanced NDWI combined with a hybrid fusion technique reduces false alarms in satellite-based urban flood detection from 38 ...
Shadows in the Data: How Satellites Finally Caught a Slow Andean Landslide in the Act
Researchers reconstructed ten years of motion at a giant slow-moving landslide in northwest Argentina and showed how seasonal illumination biases ...
Satellites Weigh Indonesia’s Mangroves: Sentinel-2 NDVI Tracks Blue Carbon Loss and Slow Recovery in Pangpang Bay
A new study shows that Sentinel-2 satellite NDVI can estimate mangrove aboveground biomass and carbon stocks in Indonesia's Pangpang Bay, ...
Machine Learning Outperforms Kriging in Mapping Soil Clay Across Nigerian Savanna
A new study in Nigeria's Guinea Savanna shows that machine learning algorithms, led by Cubist, dramatically outperform traditional Ordinary Kriging ...
AI Maps Where Fire and Habitat Loss Threaten the World’s Largest Lizard
A new machine-learning study maps Komodo dragon habitat suitability and wildfire risk across Komodo National Park, revealing that five percent ...
Desert City’s Green Spaces Quietly Soak Up 80 Percent of Its Rainfall
A new InVEST model assessment of Sharjah, UAE shows that vegetated and agricultural lands retain about 80 percent of the ...
AI Framework Fuses Satellites and Ground Data to Weigh the World’s Grasslands
A new deep learning and ensemble learning framework reaches up to 93.04% accuracy in estimating aboveground biomass across three contrasting ...
Satellites reveal accelerating ghost forest loss on North Carolina’s coast
A new PLOS One study using AI analysis of satellite imagery finds North Carolina lost 21 percent of its coastal ...
Satellites alone cannot predict where buried pipelines will corrode, Nigerian field study shows
A new study in northwestern Nigeria statistically tested whether Sentinel-2 satellite indices can substitute for ground-based resistivity surveys in assessing ...
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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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