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Maxar Technologies Extends Contract with Esri for Highest Quality Satellite Imagery Mosaics

WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) today announced that it signed a three-year contract to continue providing its Vivid and Metro satellite imagery mosaics ...
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New satellite tech can map wildfire smoke plumes in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale

Canada is facing another dangerous wildfire season, with burning forests sending smoke plumes across the provinces and into the U.S. again. The pace of the 2025 fires is reminiscent of the ...
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Which wildfire smoke plumes are hazardous? New satellite tech can map them in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale

Canada is facing another dangerous wildfire season, with burning forests sending smoke plumes across the provinces and into the U.S. again. The pace of the 2025 fires is reminiscent of the ...
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Is that wildfire smoke plume hazardous? New satellite tech can map smoke plumes in 3D for better air quality alerts at neighborhood scale

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track ...
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Which wildfire smoke plumes are hazardous? New satellite tech can map them in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale

Prof. Wang's group have been supported from NOAA, NASA, and Naval ONR to develop research algorithm to retrieve aerosol layer height. The compute codes of the research algorithm were shared with ...