Sharing Earth Knowledge: The Indigenous Peoples Initiative

<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-first-photo-from-space-13721411/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The first photo taken from space</a> was captured by a rocket-borne camera launched from New Mexico in October 1946. It showed a grainy black-and-white image with clouds and a sharp horizontal line where the atmosphere ended and outer space began. As the Space Race gave us the ability to reach greater extraterrestrial vantage points, NASA’s <a href="https://geonarrative.usgs.gov/landsat-science/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Landsat satellites</a> began to take photographs of Earth’s surface for research purposes, a process known as “remote sensing.” The data are publicly available and used in a variety of ways. Most non-scientists, however, need tools and training in order to understand and utilize these data effectively. NASA’s <a href="https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Applied Sciences Program</a> aims to bridge this gap and enable people to use scientific information for their own purposes. <a href="https://medium.com/bay-area-environmental-research-institute/sharing-earth-knowledge-the-indigenous-peoples-initiative-33ac54963fc4">Click Here</a>