Satellite Data
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Press Releases
Digital Surface and Terrain Models from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line Added to Satellite Data Explorer
NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announces the addition of three digital elevation and digital terrain products from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX) data access and discovery tool. The products include: Digital Surface Model (DSM) at 1-meter spatial resolutionThe DSM is a 3D elevation model derived from imagery captured by Vantor’s constellation of Worldview…
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Linking Satellite Data and Community Knowledge to Advance Alaskan Snow Science
Seasonal snow plays a significant role in global water and energy cycles, and billions of people worldwide rely on snowmelt for water resources needs, including water supply, hydropower, agriculture, and more. Monitoring snow water equivalent (SWE) is critical for supporting these applications and for mitigating damages caused by snowmelt flooding, avalanches, and other snow-related disasters. However, our ability to measure…
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NASA Data Reveals Role of Green Spaces in Cooling Cities
As any urban dweller who has lived through a heat wave knows, a shady tree can make all the difference. But what happens when there’s no shade available? A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data to identify a major gap in global resilience to climate change: cities in the Global South have far less green space — and therefore less cooling…
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Going Back-to-School with NASA Data
As students head back to school, teachers have a new tool that brings NASA satellite data down to their earthly classrooms. The My NASA Data homepage categorizes content by areas of study called spheres and also Earth as a system. NASA/mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov For over 50 years of observing Earth, NASA’s satellites have collected petabytes of global science data (that’s millions and…
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Satellite Data Can Help Limit the Dangers of Windblown Dust
Interstate 10, an artery that cuts through the rural drylands of southern New Mexico, is one of the country’s deadliest roadways. On one stretch of the highway, just north of a dry lakebed called Lordsburg Playa, fatal collisions occur with such regularity that officials often call it the “dust trap.” It’s a fitting name. Since 1967, at least 55 deaths…
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Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin Team to Make Downlinking Satellite Data Easier and Less Expensive
SEATTLE & BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 27, 2018– Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced a strategic collaboration to integrate the new AWS Ground Station service with Lockheed Martin’s new Verge antenna network. AWS and Lockheed Martin are bringing these two highly capable systems together to provide a solution that addresses customer needs for resilient satellite uplinks and downlinks. Through this…
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