Topic
Climate change and resilience, conservation, forests, water and weather.
The ESA-funded EO AFRICA R&D Facility has posted its 24th webinar, on using satellites to track air pollution and its health impacts, especially on children.
Source: EO AFRICA R&D FacilityA TU Wien webinar on ASCAT soil moisture data for African rainfall and drought monitoring is now available on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility's YouTube channel.
Source: EO AFRICA R&D Facility
LINZ is recruiting government, iwi, academic, industry and community groups to test uses of its 3D coastal data; the next intake opens in March 2027.
Source: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)
NOAA's Satellite Liaisons train forecasters and emergency managers to use satellite products, and pass user feedback back to researchers and product developers.
Source: NOAA NESDIS
A 2001–2022 global satellite analysis finds vegetation grows more rain-dependent but less water-efficient after combined drought and fire.
Source: Newswise
A four-year ICESat-2 analysis of 15,000 Antarctic ice cliffs finds rapid retreat that stabilises, rather than the runaway collapse some models assume.
Source: MIT News
PlanetiQ's GNOMES-11 reached orbit on 20 October, joining GNOMES-10 and adding tropical GNSS radio occultation sampling for NOAA forecast models.
Source: PlanetiQ
GNOMES-11 joins GNOMES-10 in orbit, adding tropical and mid-latitude radio occultation data and lifting PlanetiQ towards 20,000 profiles daily.
Source: PlanetiQ (via PR Newswire)
NOAA's pilot found commercial GNSS-R data can reliably support ocean wind monitoring, with extra uses in soil moisture, flooding and sea ice.
Source: NOAA NESDIS
MODIS-based analysis finds early-warning signals of declining vegetation resilience in 27% of ecoregions, including Angolan miombo woodlands, though not proof of collapse.
Source: ScienceDirect (journal article: Early-warning signals of critical transitions in global ecoregions)