Question:

What sort of access and potential applications do journalists have for satellite-based systems like MODIS for reporting?

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MODIS has been used in environmental journalism to track forest fires, substantiate deforestation claims and demonstrate destruction from the earthquake in Haiti. Since this is a particularly new technology, many possibilities for journalists remain unexplored.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on February 15, 2011
Topic: Technology