{"id":6522,"date":"2016-03-26T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T01:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2016-03-26T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T01:18:28","slug":"how-remote-sensing-improves-your-daily-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/how-remote-sensing-improves-your-daily-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How remote sensing improves your daily life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friends from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (my alma mater) wrote a nice description of how remote sensing is used in many aspects of safety and information. \u00a0Radar and satellite imagery are both examples of atmospheric remote sensing, but there are others as well. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/8691\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/8691<\/a>. \u00a0And of course the uses go far beyond weather and climate. \u00a0Remote sensing can now be used to monitor crop moisture, the presence of insect pests, and animal health.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/04\/water-vapor-swirl-over-GA-4-19-2014.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/04\/water-vapor-swirl-over-GA-4-19-2014-300x232.png\" alt=\"Enhanced water vapor image over GA 4-19-2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/04\/water-vapor-swirl-over-GA-4-19-2014-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/04\/water-vapor-swirl-over-GA-4-19-2014-178x138.png 178w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/04\/water-vapor-swirl-over-GA-4-19-2014.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enhanced water vapor image over GA 4-19-2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (my alma mater) wrote a nice description of how remote sensing is used in many aspects of safety and information. \u00a0Radar and satellite imagery are both examples of atmospheric remote sensing, but there are others as well. \u00a0You can read more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6524,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/6524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}