EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Initial Signals Received From Six Small Satellites Built by SSL for Planet

Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)

The satellites were launched aboard a Minotaur-C rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, and will begin sending their first images early next week. "SSL take...

Wind satellite vacuum packed

Nov 03, 2017 (ESA)

Aeolus carries one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit: Aladin, which includes two powerful lasers, a large telescope and very sensi...

Orbital ATK Successfully Launches Minotaur C Rocket Carrying 10 Spacecraft to Orbit for Planet

Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)

The rocket's first stage ignited at 2:37 p.m. (PDT), and just over 12 minutes later, Planet's six SkySat spacecraft began to deploy one at a time into their tar...

NASA Estimates the Global Reach of Atmospheric Rivers

Nov 01, 2017 (JPL)

Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow, short-lived jets of air that transport water vapor across significant portions of Earth's mid-latitude oceans, o...

Vega to launch an Earth observation satellite for the Kingdom of Morocco

Nov 01, 2017 (ESA)

This Earth observation satellite for the Kingdom of Morocco was developed by a consortium comprising Thales Alenia Space as system prime contractor and Airbus a...

NASA-Funded Competition Rewards Efforts To Predict Penguin Populations

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

Ecologists have monitored Antarctic penguins for decades, be it through field counts in sites near research stations or, more recently, satellite imagery spanni...

First SAGE III Atmospheric Data Released for Public Use

Oct 27, 2017 (SPX)

The data, available through NASA's Atmospheric Science Data Center, was collected June through August and includes measurements of ozone, aerosols and nitrogen ...

Earth Observation market worth $8-15B by 2026

Oct 27, 2017 (SPX)

This upside model considers the implications of new supply solutions being able to open further markets. As well, advances in artificial intelligence and deep l...

Keeping an Eye on Earth's Energy Budget

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

"It's quite an interesting thing when you think about how energy is distributed and exchanged in various forms amongst Earth's atmosphere, ocean, land and snow ...

When surrounding farms get hot and dry, cities cool off

Oct 26, 2017 (UPI)

Usually suburban and rural land, with more vegetation, experience more cooling than cities, where concrete buildings and paved roads bake in the sun and encoura...

Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes

Oct 26, 2017 (ESA)

The 2017 hurricane season isn't even over yet, but 10 Atlantic storms in a row have already reached hurricane strength - the first time this has happened in mor...

OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the Earth

Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)

The goal of DGGS is to enable rapid assembly of spatial data without the difficulties of working with projected coordinate reference systems. The OGC DGGS Abstr...

GOES-T Satellite Brains and Body Come Together

Oct 24, 2017 (SPX)

The next satellite in the series, GOES-S, is now fully integrated, finished with environmental and mechanical testing and preparing for launch in spring 2018. M...

Satellites map photosynthesis at high resolution

Oct 24, 2017 (SPX)

Now an international team of scientists have made a major step forward. They used data of the NASA satellite "OCO-2" (Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2) to map the ...

Google Earth helps researchers identify 400 ancient stone gates in Saudi Arabia

Oct 23, 2017 (UPI)

"I refer to them as gates because when you view them from above they look like a simple field gate lying flat, two upright posts on the sides, connected by one ...

China, France plan to launch first joint oceanic satellite in 2018

Oct 23, 2017 (XNA)

The China-French Oceanic Satellite is being tested in a Beijing-based assembly testing center of the China National Space Administration, said the administratio...

First joint France-China satellite to study oceans

Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)

The satellite, named CFOSAT (China-France Oceanography Satellite), is due to be launched next year by China and will primarily be used to study wind and ocean w...

NASA's ICON explores the boundary between earth and space

Oct 19, 2017 (SPX)

Specifically, ICON investigates the connections between the neutral atmosphere - which extends from here near the surface to far above us, at the edge of space ...

Study reveals new threat to the ozone layer

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Thirty years ago, the Montreal Protocol was agreed to phase-out chemicals destroying the ozone layer, the UV-radiation shield in the Earth's stratosphere. The t...

Study casts doubt on warming implications of brown carbon aerosol from wildfires

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Rajan Chakrabarty, assistant professor, and Brent Williams, the Raymond R. Tucker Distinguished InCEES Career Development Associate Professor, both aerosol scie...