2025年1月23日 · Between 2018 and 2050, the world’s urban population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion, an addition of about 170,000 people a day, according to estimates by the United Nations. This is equal to adding a city the size of Providence, Rhode Island, every day for the next 41 years. A majority of this growth will occur in developing countries.

2020年7月28日 · The Human Footprint is a quantitative analysis of human influence across the globe. In this map, human impact is rated on a scale of 0 (minimum) to 100 (maximum) for each terrestrial biome.

2025年1月22日 · NASA has data related to many facets of human existence including health, economics, settlements and infrastructure, natural hazards, and land use.

2024年4月23日 · Examples of SAR imagery and image processing used in the Fresh Eyes on Ice research in Copper River, AK.: (a) Optical reference image from Sentinel-2 (true color); (b) SAR single-date image (vertical-vertical [VV] backscatter) from Sentinel-1; (c) SAR multitemporal composite that makes it easier to see river ice and water (red: VV backscatter from autumn, …

The Spatial Data from the 2011 India Census contains gridded estimates of India population at a resolution of 1 kilometer along with two spatial renderings of urban areas, one based on the official tabulations of population and settlement type (statutory town, outgrowth, census town), and the second, remotely-sensed measures of built-up land derived from the Global Human …

Earthdata is the home for full and open access to NASA's Earth science data collections, accelerating scientific advancement for societal benefit.

The Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid data set provides gridded data on human population (GHS-POP), built-up area (GHS-BUILT), and degree of urbanization (GHS-SMOD) across four time periods: 1975, 1990, 2000, and 2014 (BUILT) or 2015 (POP, SMOD).

2017年6月9日 · Who uses NASA Earth science data? Dr. Karen Seto, to study the environmental effects of urbanization.

Near real-time data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments are available through NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observation (LANCE).

2021年5月6日 · Global satellite imagery is one such haystack. A sensor such as NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites observes the entire globe – an area of approximately 197 million square miles – every one-to-two days.