Recent And Upcoming Missions And Data
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Featured in the EOS
March 11, 2011
NASA's new collaboration facility for the NASA Earth science community, called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX). NEX combines state-of-the-art supercomputing, Earth system modeling, remote sensing data…
Free availability of satellite imagery has boosted deforestation monitoring applications, but risk of data gap looms, Interview with Matt Hansen
October 13, 2010
An interview with Dr. Matt Hansen, co-director of SDSU’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence
U.S. losing trees faster than other heavily forested nations article featuring Matt Hansen
October 01, 2010
The United States lost more than 46,000 square miles of forest in those years, a size roughly equivalent to the state of Pennsylvania. That's about 6% of the nation's forested land. That's the…
IU ecological anthropologist Moran elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 13, 2010
Moran, both an IU Bloomington distinguished professor and the James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology, is an internationally recognized ecological and environmental anthropologist whose research…
Keeping Carbon Underground article in the Washington Post featuring Olga Krankina
May 13, 2010
Deforestation could hasten global warming, experts say. Scientists have discovered that Russia's ancient forests, the stuff of fairy tales, are also magnificent carbon containers, and that the…
Scientists uncover ecological impacts of invasive species using remote sensing
April 14, 2010
Scientists used airborne remote sensing instruments, an imaging spectrometer and a lidar, to determine how biological…