Tag: University of Maryland College Park

  • NASA | When Trees Fall, Landsat Maps Them

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    Twelve years of global deforestation, wildfires, windstorms, insect infestations and more are captured in a new set of forest disturbance maps created from billions of pixels acquired by the imager on the NASA-USGS Landsat 7 satellite. The maps are the first to measure forest loss and gain using a consistent method around the globe at…

  • Robo Raven

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    After years of experiments, Dr. S.K. Gupta along with students Eli Barnett, John Gerdes, Johannes Kempny, Ariel Perez-Rosado, and Luke Roberts finally succeeded in  building a bird with completely independent wings.  By programming them with arbitrary motion profiles, the group can try new in-flight aerobatics that would not have been possible before. For example, the mechanical bird…