Information from these spacecraft can help us improve agricultural yields and protect habitat loss and stop deforestation. Satellites in space have done much for us so far and, in the future, they will offer much more.
As the world turns its attention to the Global Goals, we should look systematically at how satellites can help us reach those Earthly targets. Thus, my colleagues and I analysed the goals and found that 12 of the 17 SDGs could be reached with the help of satellites.
Here are seven of the goals and examples of how satellites can help:. Satellite imagery can tell crop yield on a pixel by pixel basis — enabling farmers to better decide when to add water or fertilizer and when to harvest.
By imaging the land using special spectral bands such as near infra-red we can develop a vegetation index that represents crop vigour and productivity. For example, my own company, Planet , images the whole land mass of Earth daily to help with these efforts. Satellite images enable broad and efficient monitoring of reservoir water levels, providing early warning of shortages and uniform data across different countries that share water sources, increasing transparency and consistency in water delivery.
Often the earliest and clearest indications of climate change can be observed in very remote regions of the world. Earth-observation satellites enable global monitoring of deforestation , pollution levels in bodies of water, status of ice caps and desertification, and enable early and immediate action to prevent these events. Satellites can help track and stop illegal fishing by pairing vessel Automatic Identification System AIS transponders — which show the location of legal fishing vessels and are legally required to be switched on — with up-to-date satellite imagery, enabling the identification of vessels operating without AIS signals and which are more likely to be engaged in illegal fishing activity.
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More so than any other art form, the theatre creates apocalypses, the destruction of worlds. It provides a means by which audience and performer alike can experience a shock—a transformative event at the level of the unconscious. This fact has long been understood in politics, as director Peter Brook explains in his seminal book, The Empty Space.
Gropius took inspiration from the medieval practice of craftsmen in the service of building cathedrals. Each with their own specific task, these guilds worked towards a common aesthetic, social, metaphysical, philosophical, and spiritual project: the construction of a symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven, a simulacrum of the world of Paradise in which they one day hoped to reside.
The Bauhaus had a similar, though one could argue even grander, goal that extended beyond the walls of a single church. It was this absence that the theatre workshop, led primarily by the German painter, sculptor, and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer, would fill when it was introduced into the curriculum in and given equal importance as other Bauhaus disciplines including sculpture, weaving, and ceramics.
This is where Schlemmer is so interesting, because he brings theatre into architecture education. Take Stick Dance , which [our course] focused on, in which a dancer is strapped with twelve sticks that extend their limbs into space. The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, Aug. Anyone may submit nominations of technologies developed anywhere in the world for use in space and then modified or adopted for use on Earth. Learn more here.
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