Teri Biebel Found Her Fit at SkyTruth
Doing Good Through SkyTruth.
Teri Biebel was drained and exhausted. Not just from a long shift at the casino where she worked, but from 24 years in the casino industry. She was ready for a change.
NASA Earth Observatory image modified by SkyTruth
Training Computers to See What We See
To analyze satellite data for environmental impacts, computers need to be trained to recognize objects.
The vast quantities of satellite image data available these days provide tremendous opportunities for identifying environmental impacts from space. But for mere humans, there’s simply too much — there are only so many hours in the day. So at SkyTruth, we’re teaching computers to analyze many of these images for us, a process called machine learning.
New Writer–Editor Amy Mathews Joins SkyTruth Team
Telling SkyTruth’s stories
SkyTruth is both an intensely local and vibrantly global organization. Based in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, many of our highly talented staff are long-time residents (and some were even born and raised here). That makes our work on Appalachian issues such as mountaintop mining and fracking personal − it’s happening in our backyard, typically with little oversight from government agencies.
“Well Kick” Causes Spill in Java Sea
Following up on recent reports of oil in the water off the north coast of Karawang Regency, West Java, Indonesia, SkyTruth has picked up a slick in Sentinel-1 radar imagery. In the image from July 18th, an unidentified platform (circled in red) located roughly 12 km north of the Karawang shore is shown emitting a […]
SkyTruth Alerts: When We Know, You Know
Key Takeaways: SkyTruth is looking for new sources for the environmental alerts we send out. Since relaunching Alerts in December, 2018, we’ve expanded Oil & Gas permitting to include West Virginia, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Montana and Utah. We’ve also added pollution alerts for Florida, New Mexico and New York. We rely on our users […]
