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June 10, 2017
Global Ocean Shoreline
Cartography of the world’s ocean shorelines goes back to the voyages of the first great explorers, when mapping was…
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June 9, 2017
The Story of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai Island in the Kingdom of Tonga
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by NASA Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science (RRNES) grant number RRNES-20 (NASA…
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February 13, 2017
Global Food Security
For six years,UrtheCast has been an emerging leader in the democratization of Earth Observation (EO) data by fusing EO…
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February 11, 2017
Building “DIGITAL EARTH”
Paper maps obsolesce rapidly from the moment they are printed, because the ink on the paper remains the same…
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February 10, 2017
Climate Migrants
Climate change is already displacing thousands of people. There is little doubt that the coming decades will see a…
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February 9, 2017
Lidar is Key to Autonomous Vehicles
Once Mass delayed, self-driving cars promise to reduce dramatically the number of traffic fatalities, because they will never be…
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October 11, 2016
Supporting Agenda 2030’s Sustainable Development Goals
In October 2015, the United Nations’ Plenary agreed on Agenda 2030, the “Road to Dignity,” as the Secretary General…
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October 8, 2016
Robots of the Deep
We have mapped the surface of the Moon at a resolution of 328 feet. We have mapped the surface…
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June 30, 2016
From Selling Pixels to Selling Answers
This series of articles began in our Fall 2015 issue by focusing on the impact on vendors and users…
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June 30, 2016
Freeing Slaves from the High Seas
In May 2015, former slave fisherman Myint Naing, 40, was reunited with his family after 22 years. He was…