With NASA's GLOBE program and GLOBE Observer app, you can help research trees, clouds and more by just snapping photos.
With the NASA Globe Observer app, users upload a series of photos from a single location, like this one. When scientists study clouds, they’re typically looking at them from above, from satellites. But that doesn’t give them the full picture. Clouds can be layered, and those on top might obstruct their view of what’s below. With the NASA GLOBE Observer app, you can submit observations of clouds any time, or during a satellite overpass for extra-helpful data.
Scientists already have large-scale land cover maps thanks to satellite imagery, but this information is at a fairly low resolution — like an overly grainy photo. They need more information, and they want you to submit photographs of the landscape around you so they can add details to their maps.
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