Analysis Quote by Sarah Parcak

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

— Jeff Goodell

We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests,…

— Sarah Parcak

In Egypt, I do survey work on the ground. That's really the most important part of using satellite images. You know, it helps us…

— Sarah Parcak

'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

— Sarah Parcak

What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the…

— Sarah Parcak

Many people may not recognize that the development of space exploration technologies has already helped benefit Earth in many ways, especially when it comes…

— Dylan Taylor

A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery,…

— Jefferson Han

When you look at the number of satellites, what they're doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have…

— Trevor Paglen

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try…

— James Hansen

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions…

— Sarah Parcak

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite…

— Sarah Parcak

Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we want to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson