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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.
Rare Electric Blue Clouds Observed by NASA Balloon
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On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Forming fifty miles above the poles in summer, these clouds are known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds.
After Quake, Engineer in Khatmandu Describes What Fell Down, or Didn’t, and Why
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Kit Miyamoto, a structural engineer fresh from five years rebuilding Haiti, spoke with Andy Revkin of The New York Times Dot Earth blog after a day inspecting Kathmandu damage zones.
OPS-SAT: ESA’s Flying Lab, Open to All
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What would you do with a powerful computer based in space? At just 30 centimeters in height, OPS-SAT is a tiny CubeSat designed to serve as a large-scale software laboratory in orbit–containing one of the most powerfu...
NASA Rainfall Data and Global Fire Weather
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The Global Fire WEather Database (GFWED) integrates different weather factors influencing the likelihood of a vegetation fire starting and spreading.
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...
Digital Delta transforms Dutch water system using Big Data
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This video introduces IBM Smarter Water Management solutions running on IBM Intelligent Water software to address Flood and Natural Resource Management. This solution provides the Dutch Water authorities a breakthrough innovation program to harness insights from Big Data and transform flood control and management of the entire Dutch water system.
Sea Level Rise Accelerates Over Time
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Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data.
Earth from Space: Tromsø
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Tromsø, the largest city in northern Norway, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.
Launch of Trimble Ag Software
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Ben Allen, enterprise solutions lead for Trimble Agriculture, explains how Trimble’s new farm data management platform—Trimble Ag Software—simplifies management of data and helps farmers make informed, timely decisions.
