{"id":65365,"date":"2018-05-01T01:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/the-importance-and-capability-of-satellite-imagery\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:17:48","slug":"the-importance-and-capability-of-satellite-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/the-importance-and-capability-of-satellite-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance and Capability of Satellite Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Jim Bridenstine\u2019s confirmation to the post of <strong>NASA<\/strong> Administrator, I present three stories highlighting the importance and capability of satellite imagery to study and better know our planet:<\/p>\n<h3>1. \u201cA cloud-free Europe: Stunning mosaic of satellite images reveals a clear view of the continent in incredible detail\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>They even managed to get a cloud-free picture of Scotland! This doesn\u2019t happen very often: \u201c<em>In 2016, U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams managed to take a similarly rare photo of Scotland without clouds. \u201cWe had a great view of Scotland today \u2026 very rare to not be covered with clouds,\u201d he tweeted. At the end of last year NASA released another image of the Scottish highlands caked in snow with lots of cloud cover, which is the view astronauts are more used to seeing. The 2017 image was taken from NASA\u2019s Terra Satellite Earth Observing System which is the size of a minibus. For almost 18 years the Terra satellite and its five sensors have collected data about Earth and its complex systems.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We had a great view of Scotland today\u2026very rare to not be covered with clouds. pic.twitter.com\/R31MXg2I1U<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Williams (@Astro_Jeff) August 16, 2016<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"osano\/blocked\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>2. \u201cNew NASA study may improve future river-observing satellites\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Incredibly useful information to help minimize losses from hurricanes. <em>\u201cEarly flood warning systems traditionally depend on gauge networks that detect floods farther up the river, but gauge data are becoming more and more scarce,\u201d said George Allen, lead author of the new research and a hydrologist at JPL. \u201cOur study shows that there\u2019s room for satellites to help fill in the gap. But for satellites to inform real-time flood mitigation, they have to provide data to water managers within a sufficiently short lag time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>3. \u201cInshore insights: Using satellite imagery to locate clean water\u201d (Google Earth gives anglers big advantage in finding potential fishing spots)<\/h3>\n<p>Two things I learned from this blog post \u2013 1) How people who aren\u2019t aerospace engineers or tied to the satellite industry teach other non-space affiliated audiences to use satellite applications for everyday activities. 2) From the article: <em>\u201cWith Google Earth, you can observe how clean water is. See, clean water tends to appear darker in satellite imagery, whereas dirtier water appears to be lighter in color. If you\u2019re still not sure, use the Mississippi River as your \u201cgo to\u201d for what dirty water looks like, since it\u2019s always dirty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Jim Bridenstine\u2019s confirmation to the post of NASA Administrator, I present three stories highlighting the importance and capability of satellite imagery to study and better know our planet: 1. \u201cA cloud-free Europe: Stunning mosaic of satellite images reveals a clear view of the continent in incredible detail\u201d They even managed to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}