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With the spy satellites, scientists can extend a landscape’s timeline even earlier into the 20th century Not being able to see the forest for the trees isn’t just a colloquialism for Mihai Nita — it’s a professional disadvantage. “When I go into the forest, I can only see 100 meters around me,” said Nita, a forest engineer at Transylvania University of Brasov, in Romania. Nita’s research interest — the history of Eastern Europe’s forests — depends on a vaster, and more removed, vantage than eyes can provide. “You have to see what happened...

Credit: Photo by Mihai Daniel Nita Researchers 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 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?Bra?ov, present new findings from the US Geological Survey?declassified?s...

Cold war spy satellite images used to track ecological change The findings shed new light on wildlife and the natural world after the Second World War Bomb craters converted into fish ponds in Vietnam Credit: Mihai Daniel Nita Cold War spy satellite photos can help tackle climate change, scientists have said. US military intelligence photographs taken over the former Sino-Soviet bloc are being analysed anew for clues about the changing landscape, in research presented at the British Ecological Society's Festival of Ecology. Declassified in 1995 by then-president Clinton, the photographs have ...