Remote Sensing

Editor in chief Joe Francica picked out the top articles in geospatial intelligence and remote sensing from the last three months. If you missed them the first time around - here's an opportunity to catch up!

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A survey of companies that employ geospatial works reveals U.S. organizations’ current and future hiring plans.

The German radar satellite, TanDEM-X, is in the process of generating a global Digital Elevation Model - WorldDEM - of unprecedented quality, accuracy and coverage. In this article, William Van Rensalier Parker, associate at PACE Government Services, explains how this sensor, in conjunction with the TerraSAR-X satellite, will provide a seamless world height model.

This summer, NASA DEVELOP student interns examined the applications of NASA EOS for analyzing the 2011 North Carolina wildfire season. Students conducted drought and burn severity analysis and developed fire-risk assessment maps to aid project partners in wildfire mitigation, prediction and response. The DEVELOP National Program is a capacity building internship sponsored by NASA’s Applied Sciences Program that provides interns the opportunity to learn about NASA Earth Science and the practical applications of Earth observations.

Two images from the Landsat 7 satellite are included in the new U.S Post Office series of 15 Earthscapes Forever stamps. Released October 1 to kick off National Stamp Collecting Month, the stamps vividly portray America’s diverse landscapes as viewed from heights of several hundred feet above the Earth to several hundred miles in space.

Satellite earth observation is appropriate to provide repetitive data at spatial and temporal scales necessary for detection and monitoring of wildfires. Unfortunately, the relative coarse spatial resolution of these data sets is insufficient to accurately locate individual fire fronts and to assess their strength. This article explores how small satellites with better spatial resolution and spectral bands in the thermal and near IR region to support better fire front identification.