The latest from NASA’s Earth Observatory (31 March 2015)
Tournament Earth 2015: The Finals
The championship round of the 2015 tournament has arrived! Which image deserves the crown? The colorful faults in Xinjiang or lightning over Saudi Arabia and Kuwait? Vote for your favorite by Friday at 4 p.m. EDT (8 p.m. UTC) and then check back next Monday when we reveal the winner.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/TournamentEarth/?src=eoa-ann
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New Features:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/
* Big Data Helps Scientists Dig Deeper
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/LandsatBigData/?src=eoa-features
Empowered by free access to the Landsat data archive, earth scientists are using new computing tools to ask questions that were impossible to answer a decade ago. From week-to-week fluctuations in forests to year-to-year changes in land cover, researchers can now examine our planet in much greater detail.