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The Earth Observer: May - Jun, 2020
In This Issue
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- Editor’s CornerFront Cover
- Feature Article
- Earth Day at Home with NASA4
- Meeting/Workshop Summaries
- Summary of the 2019 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting13
- Summary of the Joint Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Methods in Earth Observation for Operational Agricultural Monitoring18
- Announcement
- Tutorial Video: Getting Started with NASA Worldview 25
- In The News
- NASA’s ICESat-2 Measures Arctic Ocean’s Sea Ice Thickness, Snow Cover26
- NASA Space Laser Missions Map 16 Years of Ice Sheet Loss28
- NASA Funds Four Research Projects on COVID-19 Impacts30
- Regular Features
- NASA Earth Science in the News32
- Calendar Notice35
Editor’s Corner
Steve Platnick
EOS Senior Project Scientist
The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 continues, as well as efforts to contain the spread of the virus. Some NASA facilities have relaxed from Stage 4 of the agency response framework to Stage 3 (there are four stages, with Stage 1 being the lowest response level).1 As mentioned in the previous editorial, some consequences from reduced business activity are significant enough to be observed from space. In that sense, the COVID-19 outbreak has provided a laboratory giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to research the many changes this unique situation has created.
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