• Students on the OEFS course field trip 11 April 2015
    • Average Cloud Top Temperature - January 2007 - From MODIS
    • Sediment flowing from the CT River after Hurricane Irene - Landsat 5 image acquired 02 Sept 2011
    • The Fertile Crescent - MODIS 8-Day Composite - 9 May 2010
    • Landsat 7 image of Moosehead Lake region of Maine draped over DEM
    • Ikonos image of New Haven - 28 October 2004 - Natural Color 321-RGB
    • Landsat 8 image of New Haven County - 30 Sept 2013 - False Color Composite 654-RGB

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The Yale Center for Earth Observation (YCEO) is a centralized source of remote sensing hardware, software, and expertise for the Yale community.  Assistance is available to help users in the selection, procurement and analysis of satellite images for their research.  This research and teaching lab is one of the Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies (YIBS) research centers, and is co-sponsored by the Yale School of the Environment.

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Observing Earth from Space 2023 Final Projects

May 17, 2023
The Observing Earth From Space (OEFS) class has once again wrapped up another impressive Spring semester. Each year, as part of the course’s tradition, students...

NASA Satellite Images Reveal Drought Effect on Lake Mead

July 27, 2022
Satellite images from NASA showed the extent of drought in Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the united States.  The change was captured by comparing two images; the first...
Image source: https://environment.yale.edu/content/documents/00016720/Canopy-Fall-2019.pdf

PhD Candidate Yichen Yang Wins the Yale University’s 2022 Esri Innovation Program (EIP) Student of the Year

June 6, 2022
We are pleased to announce that our very own, Yichen Yang, a PhD Candidate in Yale School of the Environment, has been awarded Yale University’s Esri Innovation Program (EIP...
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