Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and multispectral photography. While radar and LiDAR penetrate canopies to reveal ...

Chinese satellite will be used for national land surveys, urban planning, environmental management and comprehensive disaster ...

Turbulence, temperature changes, water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane, and other gases absorb, reflect, and scatter sunlight as it passes through the atmosphere, bounces off the Earth’s surface ...

Satellite-based remote sensing detection of methane distribution at landfill sites. Panels a-c depict open dumpsites, while panels d-f show engineered sanitary landfills. Methane is a potent ...