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NISAR Blasts Into Orbit: World’s Most Advanced Radar Satellite to Scan Earth’s Surface Every 12 Days
NASA and India’s ISRO have launched a cutting-edge Earth-observing satellite called NISAR, equipped with the most advanced ...
When Earth’s Surface Shifts, a New Satellite Will See It
NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes ...
Earth Monitoring AI Models Are Getting Smarter, But Climate Change Is Moving Faster
AI is used to process satellite imagery to monitor climate change, but scientists warn that analysis is still falling behind ...
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Powerful satellite will map changes on Earth in stunning detail — down to a centimetre
NISAR — which stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — will use two radar instruments operating at different ...
Satellite data reveals 15-year trends in forest carbon storage worldwide
Forests play a central role in the global carbon cycle as trees store carbon in their trunks, branches, roots and leaves.
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8 things to know about new research on Earth’s rapid drying and the loss of its groundwater
Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how ...
Google's 'virtual satellite' AI model can provide a near real-time view of Earth
Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." The ...
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Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rate, satellite data reveal
The US West Coast is the world's worst mega-drying region. The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two ...