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Community Contact Tracing Adds Power of Place to Contact Tracing for COVID-19

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By expanding the person-to-person approach, inherent in traditional contact tracing, to include person-to-person-to-place, public health analysts will be able to perform location analytics to illuminate the places where viral spread is happening outside of direct and prolonged contact between two individuals.

SMOS Monitoring Droughts

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With drought seemingly more commonplace, entrepreneurs are using information on soil moisture from SMOS and data from other satellites to generate commercial data products for the insurance market, ultimately bringing benefits to farmers.

40 Years of Watching Mount St. Helens

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Both before and after the eruption, Landsat satellites were taking regular observations of the area, and their data is being used to study how forests recover from a very large disturbance.

Earth from Space: Namib Desert

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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Namib Desert, considered the oldest desert on Earth, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.

Stanford Researchers Forecast Longer, More Extreme Wildfire Seasons

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Study finds that autumn days with extreme fire weather have more than doubled in California since the early 1980s due to climate change. The results could contribute to more effective risk mitigation, land management and resource allocation.

Professor Lauren Gardner Discusses How the COVID-19 Dashboard is Built and Maintained

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The COVID-19 dashboard built by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University gets over a billion requests a day from around the world. Since its creation in late January 2020, it h...

Coronavirus: Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop over Italy

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New data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal the decline of air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide emissions, over Italy. This reduction is particularly visible in northern Italy which coincides with its nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Earth from Space: Canadian Arctic Archipelago

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The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.

Earth from Space: Andros, Bahamas

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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Andros, the largest island of the Bahamas.

Earth from Space: Houston

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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Houston, the most populous city in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States.