When a politician says that satellite data lies and scientists claim it's 95% accurate*, we are more likely to trust the latter. After all, the satellites are reliable. Aren’t they? When we see a satellite image, it may look like a photo, like someone flew above…
These days some large media websites (here and here), and Twitter too, are buzzing about Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs) that happen across the U.S., and, unfortunately, led to a fatal illness of some dogs whose owners were unconscious about the toxicity of the blooming waters. What is blooming, how toxic the blooming waters can be, what…
A few days ago I was browsing my Instagram feed and came over a post from the Estonian Weather Service which depicts a massive phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea. I've decided to take a closer look at this spectacular phenomenon and fetched some data from the Sentinel-3…
The journalist's career is not an easy one. Finding trustworthy sources to use as inspiration for everyday subjects is not simple either. But even harder than writing about everyday topics, it’s writing about climate change and the environment. Nowadays, you can’t rely on suppositions and…
In the middle of my software developer career, I've spent four years in the Satellite Oceanography Laboratory at my university. Together with the team, we built tools for satellite data access and visualization to help scientists discover oceans from Space. Despite all of our efforts…