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June 24, 2015
Earthquakes
The work to recover and rebuild following an earthquake requires reliable information on the condition of structures in the…
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June 24, 2015
Disaster Risk Management
Earth observations and geospatial information are critical in providing data to first responders and policy-makers after natural disasters have…
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June 24, 2015
The Urgency of Building Bridges Between EO & Satcom
Currently, billions of individuals in every major world region— and billions of dollars worth of commerce—are supported by satellite-based…
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June 24, 2015
Extreme Volcanic Eruptions
Two hundred years ago, on April 10, 1815, the volcano Mount Tambora in Indonesia had a climactic explosion in…
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June 23, 2015
International Cooperation in Earth Observations
Early last year, the group on earth observations (GEO) renewed its 10-year mandate as ministers from all over the…
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June 23, 2015
Priorities Changing for Disaster Response
One of the most important and powerful uses of geospatial tools is for disaster response and mitigation. This issue…
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June 22, 2015
Commercializing Weather Data
The commercialization of weather sensors and data will be the next in an important trend of the United States…
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June 3, 2015
The Geoglam Initiative
The Group on Earth Observations, GEO, (a partnership of governments and
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May 31, 2015
The Slowly Developing Disaster of Sea Level Rise
In 2013, James Balog’s presentation at the scince policy conference of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, D.C.,…
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May 31, 2015
Landsat & Google Earth Engine Prove Valuable to Scientific Community
How things have changed since Landsats 4 & 5 were launched in the early 1980s, about the time I…