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Scouting Watering Holes from Space

Satellites may make it easier for nomadic herders in Senegal to survive the lean season.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Vikalp Mishra/NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Planet Labs, and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The SERVIR Global team working on this project includes people from NASA, Agro-Meteorology, Hydrology, and Meteorology (AGRHYMET), Veterinarians without Borders, and the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published July 2, 2020
Data acquired 2018

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph
Planet Labs
Collection:
Applied Sciences