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Satellite Data Helps Migrating Birds

To overcome a loss of wetland habitat, researchers turn to big data, binoculars, and rice paddies.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens based on water data from Point Blue and the Nature Conservancy, and bird data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Caption by Kate Ramsayer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Published September 25, 2015
Data acquired 2001 - 2013

Sources:
Landsat 8
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