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@WildfireSignal Tracking System Now Live on Twitter

@WildfireSignal Tracking System Now Live on Twitter

Our Wildfire Watch System, @WildfireSignal, went live on Twitter today. Our applied science team is experimenting with new ways to improve…
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Measuring Volcanic Earth Displacement Using Interferometric SAR

Measuring Volcanic Earth Displacement Using Interferometric SAR

In early May, the Kilauea volcano on the big island of Hawaii started to erupt again. Technically, the volcano has been erupting for the…
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Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud

Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud

Water plays many roles in our lives. At the most basic level, we need clean, safe, accessible drinking water each day. But we also use…
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Assessing the damage of California’s wildfires

Assessing the damage of California’s wildfires

Over the past week, we’ve watched in horror as wildfires tore across Northern California. With a deep data archive of satellite imagery and…
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Fighting Wildfires Using a Cloud-based Supercomputer

Fighting Wildfires Using a Cloud-based Supercomputer

In the wake of yet another season of significant wildfire activity across the US and in particular California, our drought-weary states…
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Hacking Food Security from Space

Hacking Food Security from Space

Does widespread hunger caused by food shortages contribute to conditions that lead to regional instability? If potential food shortages…
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