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September 30, 2017
Extreme Weather’s Tie to Climate
Flows in the Earth’s Life-Support System (ELSS) were the subject of my last column. This column is about language…
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September 30, 2017
Geospatial Developments in Open Source, GPS, and Data Downlink Capabilities
As I Look Back on the half of this year, I am struck with the increasing speed of exciting…
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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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June 9, 2017
Changing the Story:
It surprises me again and again how much we know, or could know, and how much we choose not…
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June 6, 2017
An Economy for HUMANITY
HUMANITY AND THE EARTH’S LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEM
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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…