EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)

This NASA airborne science experiment that started flights over the eastern United States this month resembles a classic case of "who done it?" ACT-America, the...

ISRO to use radar imaging satellite to locate missing IAF plane

Jul 26, 2016 (IANS)

The Indian space agency will be using its Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) that can see through the clouds to locate the missing Indian Air Force (IAF) plane tha...

India to launch satellite jointly developed with US in 2021

Jul 26, 2016 (IANS)

The Indian space agency and US NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are jointly working on the development of Dual Frequency (L and S band) Synthetic Aperture Radar...

Landsat - The watchman that never sleeps

Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)

In western North America, mountain pine beetles infest and ravage thousands of acres of forest lands. Landsat satellites bear witness to the onslaught in a way ...

Europe's workhorse Sentinel ready for action

Jul 19, 2016 (ESA)

Getting the bigger picture on the health of our planet drew another step closer as Europe's Sentinel-3A satellite was handed over to Eumetsat for operations. Si...

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

Jul 19, 2016 (ESA)

While most of us may be looking forward to spending some time in the sunshine this summer, the Sentinel-2B satellite is being subjected to the extreme cold of s...

Clusters of small satellites could help estimate Earth's reflected energy

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

A team of small, shoebox-sized satellites, flying in formation around the Earth, could estimate the planet's reflected energy with twice the accuracy of traditi...

SIIS started KOMPSAT-3A commercial services

Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)

SI Imaging Services (SIIS) started commercial services of KOMPSAT-3A imagery with the world's second highest resolution satellite from July, 5th. KOMPSAT-3A is ...

Vision through the clouds

Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)

Fog, blizzards, gusts of wind - poor weather can often make the operation of rescue helicopters a highly risky business, and sometimes even impossible. A new he...

Nepal, India agree to use satellite system for border pillars

Jun 29, 2016 (XNA)

Nepal and India agreed on Saturday to use global navigation satellite system for boundary pillars between the two neighbors. Sureshman Shrestha, a senior offici...

Google brings Earth into better focus

Jun 28, 2016 (AFP)

Google's free online mapping service is bringing the world into better focus with an updated version of Earth that takes advantage of photos from a US Landsat 8...

MDA to deliver broad-area maritime surveillance system using RADARSAT

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd has announced that it has signed a CA$48.5 million (including taxes) contract with the Government of Canada to deliver a...

Canada Launches Maritime Monitoring Satellite

Jun 24, 2016 (Sputnik)

The Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite (M3MSat) has been placed into orbit by an Indian Space Research Organization rocket, the Canadian Space Age...

DigitalGlobe Awarded Sole-Source Contract to Provide Advanced Analytic Services to the DIA

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

DigitalGlobe, Inc. (DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, announced that it has been awarded a direct contract wit...

Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

Jun 24, 2016 (ESA)

The twin Sentinel-1 satellites have - for the first time - combined to show their capability for revealing even small deformations in Earth's surface. Following...

Caribbean Sea acts like a whistle and can be 'heard' from space

Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)

A study of the Caribbean Sea by University of Liverpool ocean scientists has revealed that, in the midst of all the noise of the ocean, this region behaves like...

Satellite tracking unlock mystery of Hawksbill migration in South Pacific

Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)

The Nature Conservancy and local conservation officers launched the first hawksbill sea turtle satellite tagging program in the largest rookery in the South Pac...

exactEarth and DigitalGlobe Partner to Combat IUU Fishing

Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)

exactEarth Ltd and DigitalGlobe have signed a strategic alliance to offer joint services to the commercial fishing industry and to aid in the combating of Illeg...

Russia, Italy to build earth remote sensing satellite network

Jun 17, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russia's space agency Roscosmos and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) signed an agreement Friday to create a joint satellite constellation for remote earth sensing...

A First: NASA Spots Single Methane Leak from Space

Jun 17, 2016 (JPL)

For the first time, an instrument onboard an orbiting spacecraft has measured the methane emissions from a single, specific leaking facility on Earth's surface....