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Tracking Elephants Across Namibia

Satellite imagery and local data helped researchers assess how landscape features, such as watering holes and vegetation, influence elephant movement.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by Axel Tschentscher, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Story by Madeleine Gregory, Landsat Science Outreach Team.

Published September 18, 2024
Data acquired March 7, 2024

Sources:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Photograph