Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense ...

If you look at satellite images of the world over just the last five years, some of the changes are striking: Massive swaths of forest burned in Australia, Russia, and California. In Egypt, urban ...

Zhe Zhu, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut; Su Ye, Postdoctoral researcher in environment and remote sensing, University of Connecticut Oct 8, ...

For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that satellite-derived maps can tell us exactly where the world's forests are.

NASA and India paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite on Wednesday capable of tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice.Watch video of the launch in the player above.The $1.3 billion ...

Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.

Hurricane Ian left an extraordinarily broad path of destruction across much of South Florida. That was evident in reports from the ground, but it also shows up in satellite data. Using a new method, ...

Zhe Zhu receives funding from the USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team Program for Toward Near Real-time Monitoring and Characterization of Landsat Surface Change for the Conterminous US (140G0119C0008) Su ...