All Sensors Point to a Remote Sensing Rennaissance
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This document discusses the renaissance of remote sensing technologies. It notes the enduring vision of a digital earth through platforms like satellites and drones, sensor innovations like LiDAR and multispectral imaging, and efforts to analyze and make sense of the large amounts of data. It provides examples of natural resource applications like forest monitoring, snowpack assessment, and coastal management that are being enabled by these remote sensing technologies.
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- 1. All Sensors Point to a Remote Sensing Renaissance Matt Ball Founder and Editorial Director, V1 Media
- 2. Remote Sensing Renaissance • Enduring legacy of the Digital Earth vision • Platforms - Earth observation satellites, UAS • Sensor Innovations - LiDAR, multispectral, thermal • Making Sense - fusion, analysis, insight • Natural resource applications • Maps, Apps, Experiences
- 3. Renaissance: A revival of intellectual achievement and vigor. Deep Space Climate Observatory Launched Feb. 11, 2015
- 4. The Enduring Vision of a Digital Earth Speech by Al Gore, Jan. 31, 1998 Landsat 7 1990s-era VR
- 5. – Al Gore “The hard part of taking advantage of this flood of geospatial information will be making sense of it.”
- 6. Baseline What is our knowledge? Inquiry What are our questions? Impacts Monitoring change Stewardship Management practices Response Adaptation/Resilience Sustainability Holistic Understanding Staying Curious
- 9. Silicon Valley Startups Accessible and Useful Skybox Imaging Planet Labs UrtheCast (Canada) OmniEarth Hera Systems
- 10. High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite Persistant Surveillance (Wide-Area Motion Imagery)
- 11. UAS Prove Power of the Possible Flexible, Automated, Capable
- 12. Sensor Innovations Nile River at night, Astronaut Scott Kelly
- 14. Smaller/Cheaper • DARPA program for an ultra- compact LiDAR system • RIEGL RiCopter • Quanergy developed first solid-state LiDAR for autonomous vehicles
- 15. Multispectral Parrot Sequoia Multispectral Sensor and Sunshine Sensor
- 17. Making Sense
- 18. Airborne Sensor Hubs Onboard Processing
- 19. Open, Open, Open Open Data, Open Source, Open Origin
- 20. Better Baselines National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- 21. Increasing Insights • Cloud computing capacity • Pattern recognition and machine learning • Online platforms focused on predictive analytics • High-frequency change detection • Earth Engine
- 22. Applications • Forest inventory • Snowpack assessment • Watershed management • Coastal zone management • Invasive species • Biodiversity • Ecosystem services
- 23. Carnegie Observatory Greg Asner, Ecology from Air, Ted Talk “a very high-tech accounting system”
- 24. Snowpack Assessment NRCS, National Water and Climate Center ASO Airborne Snow Observatory operated by JPL
- 25. Chesapeake Bay • 1-meter imagery and LiDAR for the entire Chesapeake Bay Watershed • Land cover analysis • Stormwater management • Precision conservation
- 26. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
- 27. Invasive Species
- 30. Back to Digital Earth Maps, Apps, Experiences