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It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It’s Solving Ecological Mysteries.Imagery from the Cold War’s Corona satellites is helping scientists fill in how we have changed our planet in the past half century.

How Cold War Spy Satellite Images Allow Scientists to Analyze Historical Ecological ChangeResearchers are using Cold War spy satellite images to explore changes in the environment, including deforestation in Romania, marmot decline in Kazakhstan and ecological damage from bombs in Vietnam. Ecologists have harnessed new advances in image processing to improve analysis of declassified U

Cold War satellites inadvertently tracked species declinesApproach could be used to follow other species’ response to human activities over decades

How scientists are using declassified military intelligence photographs to analyse historical ecological change - British Ecological SocietyEcologists have harnessed new advances in image processing to improve analysis of declassified US military intelligence photographs and detect previously unseen changes in the environment. Dr. Catalina Munteanu, of Humboldt University, and Dr. Mihai Daniel Nita, Transilvania University of Brașov, present new findings from the US Geological Survey declassified satellite imagery.  The main data source for the analyses are Cold War Spy satellite images, which were collected by the US …

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