remote-sensing

Rocket Lab’s latest launch places a Japanese radar satellite in orbit, boosting urban planning and disaster response capabilities.

Tens of thousands of satellite images of the Tibetan Plateau, including Lake Paiku, seen here, helped researchers create the clearest-ever picture of how the plateau is deforming. Credit: NASA/JSC , Public Domain

Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22), and you can watch the action live.

The rapid pace of urbanization has intensified the urban heat environment, posing significant challenges to sustainable urban development. This study takes the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) urban agglomeration as its research area and utilizes MODIS summer land surface temperature (LST) remote sensing data with a spatial resolution of 1 km from 2000 to 2022. It proposes a multi-modal AI-driven integr…

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01994-3 In summer 2025, a rapidly spreading megafire in Scotland, twice as large as the next-largest UK fire in the past two decades, caused widespread carbon emissions from the combustion of vegetation and peat, according to remote sensing analyses, field measurements and modelling.

Using nearly a decade of satellite observations, NASA's Black Marble project reveals a constantly shifting portrait of human nighttime activity visible from space.

Climate change is accelerating spatially complex transformations in land, water, coasts, cryosphere, and ecosystems, creating a critical need for reliable, scalable, and timely monitoring based on Earth observation imagery. Conventional approaches that rely on sparse in-situ measurements, manual image interpretation, and simple spectral indices or thresholding often fail to capture subtle, hetero…

OlmoEarth v1.1 is a more efficient family of remote-sensing models that cuts compute costs by up to 3x while maintaining similar performance, making large-scale satellite mapping faster and cheaper to run.

A 2024 study developed a remote sensing tool to calculate summertime water temperature and chlorophyll concentrations using data from the Blue Mesa Reservoir in Colorado. The post Research Brief: Remote Sensing of Chlorophyll a and Temperature in Blue Mesa Reservoir appeared first on Lake Scientist .

Abstract The Upper Shuaiba project is located within the Lekhwair cluster of northwestern Oman. During the first two phases of the project, more than 400 wells have been delivered with more than 130 to follow. Well construction times for the long lateral wells have decreased significantly, from about 40 days to 15 days per well, during the duration of the project. The reservoir and overburden for…

Abstract Non-destructive techniques such as the contact sponge method (CSM) and the Karsten tube have been developed to assess the water absorption properties of building materials during field measurements. In contrast, laboratory investigations typically rely on capillary rise tests (CR) on centimetric specimens imposing a one-dimensional water flow. Although the results obtained from these met…

A study of NASA's Black Marble data reveals a pattern of regional volatility in nighttime illumination across the planet.

Planet Labs' subsidiary Sinergise Solutions has signed a two-year, seven-figure contract with the State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZIF) of the Czech Republic The post Planet Labs Signs Seven-Figure Contract with Czech Republic Agricultural Fund to Monitor 25,000 Farm Holdings via Satellite appeared first on iGrow News .