This false-color image of Iceland’s Holuhraun lava field was captured in 2014 by Landsat 8’s nine- band Operational Land Imager camera. Credit: NASA Goddard

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Adam Keith is a specialist in remote sensing and the principal author of Euroconsult’s Earth Observation and Defense & Security reports. He also contributes to a number of other consulting projects, particularly related to the institutional market....