The slope which is coming, which we call a Red Edge, is a detection of vegetated area.

Furthermore, when the satellite is not over vegetated areas, its sensor system can contribute to other remote sensing tasks related to high temperature detection.

This characteristic makes radar imagery especially useful in differentiating areas of dry from moist soil and in the identification of vegetated zones often characterized by high humidity that would give rise to a strong radar response.

After a lethal 1995 heat wave turned refrigerator trucks from the popular Taste of Chicago festival into makeshift morgues, Chicago became a recognized leader, tamping down on the urban heat island impact through opening cooling centers, outreach to vulnerable neighborhoods, planting trees, creating cool white or vegetated green roofs.

Defensive barriers would not necessarily require heavy investment they could be mounds of sand several meters high located along and near the shoreline. In fact, in some areas of the US and other countries, only extensive dune fields and vegetated areas are used to separate buildings from the seashore.

The chief objective of the programme is to come up with practical and innovative solutions for detecting anti personnel mines in rural areas, cleaning up mountainous or heavily vegetated areas and mechanically neutralizing military artifacts, thus protecting the lives of the sappers who are responsible for the demining process.