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Student Spotlight Fall 2021

12/2/2021

ENVI Deep Learning Helps Map The World Bujar Fetai, the newest NV5 Geospatial Student Spotlight, is a PhD student in the Department of Geodesy, and is on the faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Fetai is passionate about researching land administration systems and his research focus is on... Read More >

Unlocking New Possibilities with Landsat 9

11/28/2021

Landsat 9 was launched in late September 2021, and on October 31st the satellite acquired a set of images known as “first light” (available online). These images serve as a preview of how the Landsat mission will improve on the programs near 50-year history of Earth satellite imagery that continues to... Read More >

Cost-effectively Converting Legacy IDL Desktop Applications to Enterprise Applications

9/17/2021

Porting your IDL® application to an enterprise or cloud-based system can seem daunting. In reality, it’s quite simple and straightforward with the IDL programming language. This blog describes using your IDL license to create a backend application and how an IDL frontend client can be distributed using the IDL... Read More >

NovaSAR-1 is Almost Here – Enhancing Remote Sensing Applications

9/8/2021

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is rapidly becoming a fundamental and critical dataset in geospatial analysis. Unlike many other observational methods, SAR is not limited by illumination or cloud cover, so collection and subsequent analysis can be conducted night or day, and even in inclement weather. One of the most recent and exciting... Read More >

Using SAR to Map Damage From the Haiti Earthquake

8/18/2021

The Sentinel-1 sensor was used to collect SAR data for DinSAR analysis that was performed with the ENVI® SARscape Analytics Displacement Map workflow. Sentinel-2 Imagery is used as the background images. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday morning August 14, 2021, leaving at... Read More >