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Land Surface News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Land Surface.
Who uses NASA Earth science data? David Mocko, for using land-surface models to study drought.
Data User Story
Dec. 22, 2020
Who uses NASA Earth science data? Dave Johnson, to estimate U.S. crop production.
Data User Story
Dec. 22, 2020
Using commercial satellite data and machine learning, scientists discovered a surprisingly large number of trees in Africa's drylands.
Feature Article
Nov. 19, 2020
NASA's SMAP team turns raw satellite data into more than a dozen data products for data users around the world.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
Colored bands in an interferogram show the gradual sinking of land (subsidence) in Arizona’s McMullen Valley Groundwater Basin between April 2010 and May 2015.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
Global composites of 30m resolution Landsat imagery available in Worldview
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
Ground validation campaigns connect the dots between what is being remotely-sensed by a satellite instrument and ongoing Earth processes.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
The cryosphere expert and University of Colorado Distinguished Professor of Geography was the founding director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
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