New Light Technologies (NLT) and Planet, a leading provider of near-daily high-resolution data and insights about Earth, recently announced a collaboration to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) imagery to support enhanced situational awareness for effective disaster response. Emergency managers require up-to-date information throughout the lifecycle of an incident on the conditions of impacted […]
NLT is honored to have Chief Scientist Ran Goldblatt recognized by WashingtonExec as one of the Top 10 Climate Change Execs to Watch in 2022! WashingtonExec highlights industry executives dedicated to and focused on creating solutions to help combat the climate crisis, building sustainable infrastructures, making geospatial data more accessible, and applying their environmental science […]
NLT’s Chief Scientist Ran Goldblatt, Ph.D., and his colleagues, including several other world-class researchers, have gone thru the long and arduous process of peer-review on their project “Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behavior in young people”, which was recently published in Nature Human Behaviour. This research, which started while Dr. Goldblatt was doing […]
Opportunity for researchers to submit a novel study to the Special Issue that NLT’s Chief Scientist Ran Goldblatt is editing with Nick Jones (World Bank Group), Nicholas Clinton (Google) and Trevor Monroe (World Bank Group) in Remote Sensing MDPI journal. The purpose of this Special Issue is to stimulate progress in remote sensing research into measuring the SDGs and monitoring the progress of […]
NLT was honored to present at the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Buenos Aries Online conference. Organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), FOSS4G is a large international conference that brings together developers, users, decision-makers, and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields for six days of workshops, presentations, […]
NLT was awarded a 5-year contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) to develop and integrate advanced web-based mapping and geospatial technologies to support the center’s training courses. The CDP prepares state and local emergency response personnel to respond to all hazards, including terrorist attacks using weapons of mass destruction, […]
NLT was honored to sponsor and participate in the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association’s (URISA) GIS-Pro 2021 conference in Baltimore MD. URISA is a nonprofit association that provides education, training, and advocacy for geospatial challenges and issues, and essential resources for GIS professionals throughout their careers. NLT team members presented, moderated sessions, and conducted […]
Blog post authored by Daynan Crull A view of Western Europe on the evening of August 5, 2020 as captured by the Suomi-NPP VIIRS-DNB sensor. Photo credit: Joshua Stevens ℅ the NASA Earth Observatory. A clear photograph of the Earth at night is quite remarkable on the face of it. More profound, still, is the […]
