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With the end of the current Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 missions, NASA will soon launch the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) or the Landsat 8 mission. I am pretty excited on this as I have been using Landsat datasets in my remote sensing research! For those interested of the…
Read moreThanks to NASA for providing the latest satellite images of the Philippines, I was able to look into the damaged areas in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan caused by massive flooding, which was triggered by Tropical Storm Washi (known locally as Typhoon Sendong) on December 16, 2011. The Moderate Resolution…
Read moreNASA provided satellite images of Sendai, Japan before and after the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit and devastated the region on March 11, 2011. The images vary in spatial resolution. One set of images came from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellite. MODIS…
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