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NASA satellite-based remote sensing data complements field data with environmental variables such as temperature and precipitation for species distribution and habitat suitability; vegetative data such as canopy height, forest structure, and evaporative stress; human impacts to biological diversity, such as deforestation or nighttime lights on predator/prey interactions; and spectroscopy information for direct detection of species.
Published Oct 8, 2021 03:10 PM
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Data from NASA’s ORNL DAAC help Dr. Kyla Dahlin better understand how remote sensing can improve predictive ecological models.
Published Feb 28, 2023 11:03 AM
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The provisional public release of the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset through NASA’s LP DAAC opens new avenues for global terrestrial research.
Published Jan 25, 2021 12:17 PM
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Remote sensing and meteorological data help forecast the health of a landscape.
Published Feb 13, 2006 02:30 PM
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Landowners and land managers monitor their land's health through a variety of methods. But what about people who own or manage millions of acres?
Published Mar 5, 2000 12:14 PM
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Who uses NASA Earth science data? Dennis Ojima, to examine natural resource management response strategies to climate change in the North Central U.S.
Published Jun 22, 2015 02:42 PM
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Ocean color data provide key information about ocean health. Dr. Barnes uses these data in his investigations into the health of optically shallow waters.
Published Oct 23, 2020 02:00 PM
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See who took home top honors in the world’s largest global hackathon.
Published Jan 27, 2021 08:33 PM
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IMPACTS—the first campaign to study intense East Coast snowstorms in the past 30 years—aims to give scientists a better understanding of what drives the processes that generate snowfall in the snowbands of intense storms.
Published Oct 26, 2021 02:16 PM
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NASA Earth science data are vital components of investigations into biological diversity, species distribution, and ecological conservation.
Published Apr 1, 2020 03:25 PM
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As wildlands shrink, scientists study the ecologies that people have tamed.
Published Oct 19, 2011 02:27 PM
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Coastal ecosystems are some of Earth’s most biologically diverse environments, especially coastal mangrove forests. Dr. Lagomasino uses Earth observing data to study these vital biomes.
Published Jun 25, 2020 09:05 AM
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NASA’s wide range of ecological and atmospheric datasets help scientists like Dr. Walker gain insight into how Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems respond to global change.
Published Feb 23, 2021 09:49 AM
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