100 Remote Sensing Applications
1.Determining soil moisture content using active and passive sensors from space 🌱🌧️🛰️
2. Mapping soil types for agriculture planning 🗺️🌾
3. Quantifying crop conditions with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) 🌿📊
4. Saving money and time on the farm with precision farming 💰⏱️🚜
5. Predicting the occurrence of dinosaur tracks for paleontologists 🦖👣🔍
6. Unearthing ancient archaeological sites like the Mayans and ancient Egypt ⛏️🏛️🔍
7. Calculating the depth of snowpack ❄️📏
8. Exploring, protecting, and navigating in the arctic 🏔️🧊🚢
9. Studying glacier melts and effects on sea levels 🏔️🌊🌡️
10. Predicting retail earnings and market share by counting cars in a parking lot 🚗💰📊
11. Getting a top-down view when purchasing real estate 🏠🔍🌆
12. Catching fish and improving long-term fisheries sustainability 🐟🎣🌊
13. Mapping regional economic activity at night 🌃💼🗺️
14. Planning spine-jarring black diamond ski runs with aspect data ⛷️🏔️📏
15. Identifying forest stands and tallying their area to estimate forest supplies 🌳📏🌲
16. Comparing climatic factors from past to present 🌡️⏳🌍
17. Measuring the rise of sea levels 🌊📏⬆️
18. Comparing the past and present with human impact change 🔄🌍💥
19. Spotting swimming pools for late-night dives 🏊🌃🏊♀️
20. Narrowing down a search for a missing body 🔎👥🚫
21. Putting illegal boat dumping under the microscope 🚫🛶🔬
22. Monitoring active volcanoes using thermal remote sensing 🌋🌡️🛰️
23. Inventorying potential landslides with interferometry ⛰️📋🔍
24. Quantifying the damage after an earthquake 🌍📉💥
25. Assessing terrain stability using interferometry in the oil and gas sector ⛰️📈⚒️🛢️
26. Tracking hazards for better response and recovery ⚠️📈🔍
27. Counting polar bears to ensure sustainable population levels 🐻📈🔢
28. Uncovering habitat suitability and fragmentation for panda bears in protected areas 🐼🌳🧩
29. Tracking the great distances of migratory birds and inspecting their prevalence 🐦🌍🔍
30. Using a least-cost analysis and vegetation to understand wildebeest migration 🦓🌾🚶♂️🌍
31. Using habitat suitability models to predict the abundance of mosquitoes 🦟📈📊
32. Mapping with laser precision using Light Detection and Ranging technology 🗺️🎯🛰️🔍
33. Estimating surface elevation with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 🛰️🌍📏
34. Deriving elevation and contours using photogrammetry 📷🗺️📏
35. Planning an optimal telecom network capacity 📶📊🏗️
36. Designing a lift irrigation system to supply water 💧🌿⚙️
37. Monitoring the environment with the ESA’s Copernicus Program 🌍🔬📡
38. Keeping a watchful eye on biodiversity 🌿👀🌍
39. Delineating and assessing the health of riparian zones to conserve lakes and rivers 🌳💧🏞️
40. Assessing the environmental change and promoting biodiversity in parks 🌿🔄🏞️🌍
41. Fighting wildfires by planning firefighter dispatch 🚒🔥📋
42. Reversing illegal rainforest cutting in Brazil 🌳🛑🇧🇷
43. Preventing the spread of forest disease types 🌲🚫🦠
44. Catching tax-evaders red-handed by locating new construction and building alterations 🏢🕵️♂️🚧
45. Detecting land cover/use types for decision making 🗺️🌳🏢
46. Assisting cities manage assets and ensuring safety standards 🌆🛠️🔒
47. Keeping an inventory on cemeteries using UAVs ⚰️📋🚁
48. Recognizing buildings easily with the bird’s-eye oblique view 🏢🦅👀
49. Delineating watersheds using DEMs for hydrologists ⛰️💧🗺️
50. Locating groundwater activity for wells 💧🔍🕳️
51. Preventing the degradation and loss of wetland ecosystems 🌿🚫⬇️
52. Charging higher insurance premiums in flood-prone areas using radar 🌊💰📉
53. Doing the detective work for fraudulent crop insurance claims 🌾🔍🧑✈️
54. Spying on enemies with reconnaissance satellites 🛰️👀🕵️♂️
55. Snapping aerial photos for military surveillance using messenger pigeons in World War II 📷✉️🕊️
56. Searching for aircraft and saving lives after fatal crashes ✈️❗🔎
57. Navigating ships safely with the most optimal route ⛴️🧭🗺️
58. Picking up signals from submarines in shallow water 🌊🔍🚤
59. Spotting undeclared nuclear power plants automatically ⚛️🔍🏭
60. Recording video footage from satellites 🎥🛰️
61. Extracting mineral deposits with hyperspectral remote sensing ⛏️🌈🛰️
62. Studying geology of the Earth’s surface 🌍⛰️🔍
63. Measuring the volume difference at a uranium enrichment site using 3D mapping ⚛️📐🌍🔍
64. Monitoring oil reserves by looking at floating oil roof tanks 🛢️📈🛰️
65. Pinpointing your position on Earth with Global Positioning Satellites 🌍📌🛰️
66. Providing a base map for visual reference and assisting orient the map reader 🗺️🔍👀
67. Measuring gravity with the GRACE satellites ⚖️🛰️🔍
68. Looking at the Earth as an art masterpiece 🌍🎨❤️
69. Spinning the globe with mapping services like Google Earth, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMaps 🌍🔄🌐
70. Detecting oil spills for marine life and environmental preservation 🛢️🔍🐠🌊
71. Watching algae grow as an indicator of environmental health 🌱👀🌍
72. Observing the flow of ocean currents and circulation 🌊🔄🔬
73. Mapping the mysteries of our ocean floors 🌊🗺️🌍
74. Snorkeling in an oasis of marine vegetation with the coastal channel 🐠🌿🏊♀️
75. Tracking sediment transport into rivers and lakes 🌊🗺️📈
76. Monitoring the global sex trade situation in remote areas ⚠️🌍🔍
77. Finding the driving factors that contribute to poverty 💰❌🌍
78. Preventing the spread of diseases in epidemiology 🦠❌🚫
79. Understanding the human rights situation in North Korea 🇰🇵👥❓
80. Providing early warning signs for a famine on a large scale 🌾❗🥖
81. Observing population growth in urban areas using land use change 🌆📈🌍
82. Helping provide clean drinking water with base maps 💧🗺️🚰
83. Measuring the size of protests for journalists 📏👥📰
84. Keeping a watchful eye to prevent future atrocities from happening 👀🚫🔍
85. Finding ghost cities on the map 👻🗺️
86. Tracking displaced refugees to help deliver aid and services 🚶♀️📦🌍
87. Keeping tabs on the shift from rural to urban growth 🌾🏙️📈
88. Inventorying and assessing rural road conditions with UAVs 🛣️📋🚁
89. Driving with no hands (autonomous vehicles) 🚗🙌🤖
90. Covering the most ground in search of road cracks 🛣️🔍🚧
91. Assessing fuel economy of vehicle emissions ⛽📈🚗
92. Creating an automated road network 🛣️🔄🌐
93. Improving efficiency and safety of air traffic control ✈️🔒📈
94. Reducing traffic jams using change detection 🚗📉🔍
95. Measuring wind speed and direction for wind farms, weather forecasting, and surfers 💨🌬️🌪️🏄♂️
96. Forecasting weather to warn about natural disasters ☔⚡🌪️
97. Monitoring air quality in the lower atmosphere 🌬️🌍📊
98. Watching the aurora borealis from another angle 🌌🌟🌍
99. Measuring albedo for Earth’s radiation budget ☀️🌍📏
100. Optimizing solar panel energy output with global horizontal irradiance ☀️🔋📈
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