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10/19/2022

This is Rusty Low, scientist with the GLOBE Observer Science Team, reporting from the Amazon Rainforest in the Tapajós National Forest, Municipality of Belterra, Para, Brazil for the NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate. My co-author for this blog is Erick Luiz Souza Silva. He is a graduate student at the Federal University of Brasilia. >>

Stylized satellite images showing various types of land cover

09/06/2022

Land Cover Challenge 2022 Summary and Wrap-up

From 26 July to 26 August, we asked our volunteer scientists to use GLOBE Observer to collect observations of land cover, tying in with the 50th anniversary of the Landsat satellite and with a special focus on land cover in a changing climate. And our volunteers delivered! Read about the results of the challenge. >>

Students and scientists participating in the Urban Fabric Pilot Project

08/19/2022

Wait! What is in that Landsat Pixel you just measured?

With the GLOBE Observer (GO) app and a few simple steps you can provide valuable data for our research! After all, it’s only through connecting the space and the ground views that we can verify the areas where we are correct, and pick up on missed areas we map incorrectly. >>

05/27/2022

Results from the Spring 2022 Tree Height and Land Cover Intensive Observation Period

The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign hosted the Spring 2022 Tree Height and Land Cover Intensive Observation Period (IOP) from 22 April though 22 May 2022. >>

03/17/2022

GLOBE Student Interns Recognized for AGU Scientific Presentations

Two GLOBE students were recently recognized by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) with an Outstanding Student Award for work presented at the Fall AGU Meeting. >>

Gridded data collection helps match GLOBE data to satellite data.

12/01/2021

Adopt a Pixel 3 km

A new scientific paper featuring GLOBE data was published in Frontiers in Climate on 18 November 2021. The paper describes a method for collecting GLOBE land cover and mosquito habitat data with the GLOBE Observer app in a way that makes it easier to match with satellite data. >>

GLOBE presentation on the NASA Hyperwall

11/15/2021

GLOBE @ COP26

Information about The GLOBE Program was included as part of the NASA presence at the recent 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. >>

08/23/2021

Mosquito Monday Challenge Update - 23 August 2021

We’re in the home stretch of the challenge and there are only two days left in the challenge, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop. Every larva photo you take will help researchers come one step closer to training their software to recognize and identify disease-carrying larvae and the habitats or land cover types they prefer. >>