Scientists often use remote sensing methods to study the impacts of wildfire through calculations of vegetation indices before and after wildfire. Learn more about how remote sensing can be used to study wildfire impacts.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
A flood event often changes the terrain as water moves sediment and debris across the landscape. Learn how terrain changes are measured using lidar remote sensing data.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
The amount and/or duration of rainfall can impact how severe a flood is. Learn how rainfall is measured and used to understand flood impacts.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Learn more about the stream discharge data that is used in this data story.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Changes in the atmosphere, including how quickly a storm moves can impact the severity of a flood. Learn more about how atmospheric conditions impact flood events.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
The 2013 flood event caused significant damage throughout the state of Colorado, USA. Learn about what caused the 2013 floods in Colorado and also some of the impacts.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Learn how to use the time series feature in Google Earth to view before and after images of a location.
last updated: 27 Jan 2022
In this lesson you learn how to open up a multi-band raster layer or image stored in .tiff format in R. You are introduced to the stack() function in R which can be used to import more than one band into a stack object in R. You also review using plotRGB to plot a multi-band image using RGB, color-infrared to other band combinations.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
Multispectral imagery can be provided at different resolutions and may contain different bands or types of light. Learn about spectral vs spatial resolution as it relates to spectral data.
last updated: 30 Mar 2020
Learn how to use the time series feature in Google Earth to view before / after images of a location.
last updated: 30 Mar 2020