Hi, I’m Tom Jones! I’m a Shepherd University student majoring in environmental sustainability. I’m interning at SkyTruth this summer as part of my senior capstone project. The purpose of my research project is to map mountain removal coal-mining sites in Appalachia in order to update the database previously established in 2007, where they mapped everything […]
That was fast! We are almost back to that arbitrary point in the Earth’s orbit that most people recognize as the end of the year. That means you’re almost out of time to send some money to causes you care about in exchange for a smaller tax bill next year. So instead of letting Congress […]
Earlier this year Google launched the Timelapse project, a global interactive map that uses three decades of Landsat imagery to show how our world is changing. One stunning example of human impact on the planet is the rapid buildout of Powder River Basin coal mines in the Thunder Basin National Grassland. In addition to domestic […]
That’s right – we’re moving. So please excuse our silence lately as we change from our original office space of the past decade (!) to new offices in the funky old Entler Hotel, located in the pulsating heart of downtown Shepherdstown, WV. Even bigger news – we’ve hired an office administrator, Teri Biebel. Teri lives […]
…to our friends at ERDAS, makers of Imagine, the powerful image processing and mapping software that we use here at SkyTruth. They provide this at a steeply discounted rate to non-profits like us. Almost everything we do uses Imagine; a couple of examples are our time-series of urban growth in Las Vegas, and our […]