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VA Vasundharaa Geo Technologies Pvt Ltd

Seeing Through the Monsoon: How SAR Data Reveals the Scale of Assam’s 2026 Floods

Satellite radar turns a difficult-to-observe disaster into measurable information for relief, recovery and future flood planning. Assam’s…

Aug 23, 2026 · 7 min read · 5 claps #disaster-response #geospatial #remote-sensing

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JE Jecinta W Kinyanjui

Predicting Maize Yields in Kenya’s Rift Valley: How Machine Learning and Satellite Data Can…

By Jecinta Wanjiru | Geospatial Data Scientist

Aug 20, 2026 · 6 min read · 1 claps #gis #remote-sensing #satellite-imagery

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AN andyaketch

Fifteen Years of Data About Kiambu’s Ecological Health

Kiambu County borders Nairobi on its northern side, and that alone has made it one of the more closely watched landscapes in Kenya. A…

Aug 03, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #ecology #ecology-and-environment #remote-sensing

YA Yatin · ILLUMINATION

Remote Work in 2026: The Trend That Refused to Reverse

What the Latest Data Says About Where Professional Work Is Actually Heading

Jul 09, 2026 · 5 min read · 121 claps paywalled #remote-working #remote-work #remote

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MA Mahdi Hasani

Color Segmentation on Satellite Imagery: From HSV Thresholds to Spectral Bands

I set out to practice one specific OpenCV skill: color segmentation, the task of isolating regions of an image by color. I learn tools best…

Jul 09, 2026 · 10 min read · 50 claps #computer-vision #opencv #remote-sensing

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KR Kristin Abraham

The remote sensing case for small-scale tropical agroforestry

Challenges in Optical Remote Sensing and how to address them

Jul 06, 2026 · 8 min read · 51 claps #agroforestry #remote-sensing #tropical

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MU Muhammad Zaeny Husein

Pemetaan Penutup Penggunaan Lahan dengan Model Random Forest, Minimum Distance, KNN, Naive Bayes…

Pada uji coba ini, saya melakukan perbandingan beberapa algoritma klasifikasi yang tersedia di Google Earth Engine (GEE) untuk memetakan…

Jul 05, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #google-earth-engine #lulc

GE GeoAI Frontier

What Is GeoAI, Really? A Plain-English Map of an Emerging Field

Article 1 of a 40-part series on GeoAI for the working GIS professional.

Jul 04, 2026 · 6 min read · 1 claps #geoai #gis #remote-sensing

ES ESA SNAP Toolbox

Native BIOMASS Support in ESA SNAP 13

ESA SNAP 13 now includes the first generation of BIOMASS product support for ESA’s BIOMASS mission through the Microwave Toolbox. This is a…

Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #earth-observation #esa

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CH Christian Chacon

The SAM3 AI model found water when statistical threshold models had not detected

How zero-shot computer vision recovers critical detections across 13 years of satellite imagery, and what it means for water resource…

Jun 23, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #ai #remote-sensing #geospatial-data

MO Monodrom

There is no Geo in GeoAI

TL;DR

Jun 22, 2026 · 6 min read · 85 claps #geoai #remote-sensing #foundation-models

EO EOMasters

Inside the Sentinel‑2 Super‑Resolution Model of the EOMasters Toolbox

Hello EOMasters,

Jun 22, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #super-resolution #earth-observation

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JI Jiachen Ma

Your Webcam Can Read Your Heartbeat — Here’s How We Taught It To

How we measured heart rate and the tiny rhythm changes between beats, using nothing but an ordinary camera and some signal-processing…

Jun 22, 2026 · 8 min read · 1 claps #rppg #digital-health #remote-sensing

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TH The_Turingetic_Guy

What is Remote Sensing?

This blog is inspired from iirs -distance learning programme by isro and iirs ( Institute of remote sensing Dehraun) which i had attended.

Jun 21, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #satellite-imagery #deep-learning

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HI Himal Sudasingha

Satellites Can Read Soil Chemistry from Orbit. Here’s the Spectral Science Behind It.

Organic carbon, salinity, zinc, and pH — each leaves a distinct electromagnetic fingerprint on the surface. Here is how sensors decode it.

Jun 18, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #omi #ndsi

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OP Openaccess Research paper

Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) habitat suitability mapping based on remote sensing imagery in forest…

Abstract

Jun 13, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #orangutan-pongo-pygmaeus #habitat-suitability #remote-sensing

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KA Kamel Lahssini · The New Climate.

Why are Scientists Deliberately Spilling Oil into the Ocean?

Researchers have developed algorithms that can detect oil spills in satellite radar images. But detection is only the first step.

Jun 12, 2026 · 6 min read · 392 claps paywalled #remote-sensing #science #oceans

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HI Himal Sudasingha

Why Mapping Cities from Space Is Surprisingly Hard and How a Three Index Formula Solves It.

Urban surfaces and bare soil are nearly spectrally identical. The fix required building an index out of other indices.

Jun 12, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #ndbi #ibis

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AN Anderson Alves

Frequências Orbitais — Bandas Espectrais

Este guia sobre Bandas Espectrais de satélites nasce como um caderno pessoal para minhas revisões e consultas rápidas. Embora seja um tema…

Jun 10, 2026 · 12 min read · 0 claps #agriculture #remote-sensing #spectrum

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HI Himal Sudasingha

From Space, Concrete Looks Like Water. Here’s How Remote Sensors Tell Them Apart.

The index that maps floods and rivers has one critical flaw and fixing it required a completely different region of the spectrum.

Jun 10, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #ndwi #mndwi

HI Himal Sudasingha

NDVI Is the Gold Standard for Measuring Plant Health. Here’s Why Scientists Keep Replacing It.

The most cited vegetation index in remote sensing has two fundamental failure modes — and fixing them built an entire field.

Jun 09, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps #ndvi #remote-sensing #vise

MU Muhammad Shulhan J

Skill Saturation Amidst Rupiah Depreciation

Inflasi malah jualan batu?

Jun 08, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #gis #remote-sensing #lowongan-kerja

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JU Julian Manning

The Energy-Illumination Paradox: Decoding Melbourne’s Night-Time Sky

Unpacking 9 years of satellite data, COVID lockdowns, LED mandates, and civil mega-projects to better understand a major radiometric…

Jun 05, 2026 · 10 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #urban-development #night-light

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NI Nikita Rabari Dm

Forest Health Monitoring Technology: How Remote Sensing, IoT Sensors, and AI Are Detecting Tree…

A forest can look healthy to the naked eye while experiencing serious stress below the surface. Drought damage develops in root systems…

Jun 03, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #treediseasedetection #forest-monitoring #remote-sensing

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KA Kamel Lahssini · Science Spectrum

Why Is NASA Firing Lasers at Trees From Space?

They Even Called It GEDI

Jun 02, 2026 · 6 min read · 370 claps #science #remote-sensing #space

EO EOMasters

Presenting Global Coastal Map @10m

This is my first blog post in a long time, and fittingly, it’s about a dataset that I created and published some time ago.

Jun 02, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #coast #environment #remote-sensing

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JO Josh Fisher

The Incoming Wave of Urban Heat Waves

Dr. Joshua B. Fisher Science Lead, Hydrosat

May 31, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #hydrosat #urban-heat-island #heat-wave

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KA Kamel Lahssini · The Environment

Eyes Over the Ocean

How Radar Satellites Detect Oil Spills from Space

May 31, 2026 · 9 min read · 209 claps paywalled #science #remote-sensing #space

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HI Himal Sudasingha

Your Satellite Image Is Just Raw Numbers. Here’s the Formula That Makes It Meaningful.

The math behind every satellite index is simpler than you think — and understanding it changes how you read the planet.

May 29, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #satellite-imagery #spectral-imaging

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NA Nanditasaha

Building IFVIF: Developing an Environmental Intelligence Framework for Flood Vulnerability…

Over the past several months, I’ve been exploring how remote sensing, environmental intelligence, and spatial analysis can contribute to…

May 24, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #climate-change #remote-sensing #sustainability

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NA Nanditasaha

Building GlacioAware: Exploring Climate Intelligence Through Environmental Resilience

Over the past few months, I’ve become increasingly interested in understanding how environmental intelligence, climate resilience, and…

May 24, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #climate-change #sustainability #environmental-issues

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MD Md Shahriar Sharif

When the Map of Heat Looks Like the Map of History

What Phoenix census tracts reveal about urban heat and historical inequity

May 21, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #urban-heat #gis #environmental-justice

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SI Sindhu Palla

How I Built a Free, Reproducible Management Zone Workflow in Google Earth Engine

For growers, agronomists, and anyone tired of expensive precision ag tools, workflow using only free satellite, soil, and weather data.

May 21, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #precision-agriculture #remote-sensing #google-earth-engine

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ST Study Hacks (Institute of GIS and Remote sensing)

How to Create an Air Quality Monitoring Dashboard Using Google Earth Engine

Introduction

May 20, 2026 · 4 min read · 7 claps #google-earth-engine #air-quality #earth-engine

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ST Study Hacks (Institute of GIS and Remote sensing)

Python Mapping & Data Visualization: How to Highlight Geographic Boundaries Using Python

Introduction

May 20, 2026 · 3 min read · 15 claps #geoai #google-earth-engine #remote-sensing

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AR Arya Pratap Singh

Is VIPCUB (Vip-Cube) the FAANG of the Earth Observation Defense Industry?

The most ambitious organizations to target by any researcher, software engineer to make a fortune, working on cutting edge developments and…

May 10, 2026 · 9 min read · 9 claps #earth-observation #remote-sensing #faang

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AH Ahinsadhote

GIS-Based Flood Prediction and Disaster Management Using Remote Sensing

How GIS and Remote Sensing Help in Flood Risk Analysis and Disaster Management

May 07, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #gis #flood-prediction #remote-sensing

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PA Pascal

🛰️🌍 GeoFMs in 5 Minutes: From Earth Observations to Embeddings

If you’ve heard about foundation models mainly in the context of text (LLMs), the same idea is now showing up for Earth observation…

May 05, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps paywalled #remote-sensing #world-models #embedding

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MA Malikvishant

Why NDVI doesn’t follow logistic growth?

Logistic growth is widely used to describe population dynamics. So it seems natural to compare it with NDVI based vegetation curves.

Apr 29, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #data-science #ecology

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VL Vladimir Iglovikov

Albumentations in Geospatial: Who Actually Uses It

Albumentations is infrastructure in the satellite / remote-sensing ecosystem, not a research curio. This post is the receipts: which named…

Apr 25, 2026 · 6 min read · 2 claps #adoption #remote-sensing #earth-conservation

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SO Sophia

Geospatial Imagery Analytics Market Size, Growth, Trends & Forecast 2023–2032

Market Overview

Apr 21, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #geospatial-analytics #satellite-imagery #remote-sensing

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CA carlos carbajal

Digital Soil Mapping with Satellite Embeddings

Introduction

Mar 22, 2026 · 28 min read · 13 claps #remote-sensing #google-earth-engine #earth-engine

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KA Kaifi Chomani

Can AI Really Understand Our Land from Space?

We wanted to answer a simple question: can machines really understand our land just by looking from space? Using satellite images of Ranya…

Mar 18, 2026 · 1 min read · 3 claps #lulc #ai #machine-learning

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PA Parham Membari

AI/ML Enhancement Project — Describing a trained ML model with STAC

Introduction

Mar 18, 2026 · 9 min read · 1 claps #remote-sensing #stac #mlm-extensions

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TE Tejraj Dhongade

🌍 Satellite-Based Topographic Services: The Foundation of Smarter Governance and Sustainable…

In today’s fast-changing world, land is not just land.

Feb 20, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #topographic-survey #remote-sensing #realtime-monitoring

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TA Tarık Emre Yorulmaz

The Digital Pulse: How We Are Wiring the Planet to Survive the Climate Crisis

A deep dive into the convergence of GIS, AI, and Digital Twins in 2026 and beyond.

Feb 16, 2026 · 23 min read · 15 claps paywalled #gis #digital-twin #blue-carbon

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CH Christina Dedopoulou

Remote Sensing in Seismotectonic Studies: Seeing Deformation Where the Ground Appears Still

Many of the most important tectonic processes happen quietly. Faults accumulate strain for decades, sometimes centuries, without producing…

Jan 27, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #remote-sensing #gis #seismotectonics

KR Kristin Abraham

Super-resolution for agroforestry in the tropics. Go or no go?

Can AI close the gap between free Sentinel2 images and expensive very high resolution images?

Jan 26, 2026 · 10 min read · 7 claps #remote-sensing #agroforestry #super-resolution

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TA Tarık Emre Yorulmaz

Land Surface Temperature Downscaling with Landsat-Sentinel Data Fusion

In the realm of urban climatology, we are constantly fighting a battle against the physical constraints of satellite sensors. While Land…

Jan 21, 2026 · 6 min read · 9 claps paywalled #remote-sensing #urban-heat-island #landsat

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YA yasmine karray

L’algorithme TES d’ASTER : Séparation température-émissivité par les modules NEM, RATIO et MMD

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/700995 DOI: 10.1109/36.700995

Dec 19, 2025 · 6 min read · 1 claps #te #remote-sensing #asters