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Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features

Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features, formerly the DAAC Alliance Annual, is a multidisciplinary publication highlighting research using data from NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites. The publication is researched, written, and produced annually at the NSIDC DAAC on behalf of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data centers.

Sensing Our Planet features intriguing research using data from NASA's EOS satellites and related data from the EOSDIS data centers, including the NSIDC DAAC. The articles span the Earth science disciplines represented by the EOSDIS data centers, and are written with scientists, educators, and the interested public in mind.

DAAC Annual 2009 Cover ImageThe 2009 issue features data from twelve discipline-specific data centers. The 2009 article regarding NSIDC DAAC data, "Fathoming Antarctica," investigates subglacial lakes under the Antarctic ice sheet . The issue also contains articles about the ways scientists are using NASA data to study ocean productivity, volcanic eruptions, air pollution, and astrophysics. Other articles, such as "Finite forests," explore how remote sensing proves ideal for watching rapid changes to Russia's remote forests.

You can read stories online, download PDF copies of the 2002-2009 editions, or request printed copies from 1994-2009. Please visit the Earth System Science Data and Services Featured Research Articles Web site.

Related Resources

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NSIDC DAAC Feature Articles

Fathoming Antarctica

Younger sea ice and thinner polar bears

After the Larsen B

Arctic sea ice on the wane: Now what?

Riding the permafrost express

Sizing up the Earth's glaciers

Vanishing ice

Fragment of its former shelf

Scientist for a day

New light on ice motion

Climate clues in the ice

Polynyas, CO2, and diatoms in the Southern Ocean

Frozen soils and the climate system

Disintegration of the Ninnis Glacier Tongue

Snow and ice extent

Melt-down

Upper crust

On thin ice

Polar paradox

Fire and ice

Snowlines over Kathmandu

Phytoplankton and polynyas

At the edge

 
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