EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Oct 02, 2015 (ESA)

ESA's SMOS and two other satellites are together providing insight into how surface winds evolve under tropical storm clouds in the Pacific Ocean. This new info...

Monsoon mission: A better way to predict Indian weather

Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)

To better understand global weather patterns and increase scientific collaboration between the U.S. and India, researchers supported by the Office of Naval Rese...

exactEarth Launches Advanced Equatorial AIS Satellite

Sep 29, 2015 (SPX)

exactEarth has announced the successful launch of an advanced AIS satellite, exactView-9 (EV9), expanding its exactView global vessel monitoring constellation t...

Satellite Data Helps Migrating Birds Survive

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

This fall, birds migrating south from the Arctic will find 7,000 acres of new, temporary wetland habitat for their stopovers in California. The wetlands - rice ...

AAC Microtec and Spacemetric partner on smart downlinking of EO data

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Spacemetric and AAC Microtec have announced their partnership on innovative technologies for smart downlinking of satellite Earth observation data. The new Blue...

A new view of the content of Earth's core

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

There is more oxygen in the core of Earth than originally thought. Lawrence Livermore geologist Rick Ryerson and international colleagues discovered some new fi...

Earth science offers key to many United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

A group of ecologists at Oregon State University argue that scientific "business as usual" will fall far short of what is needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable D...

SSTL's DMC Constellation demonstrates 1-metre capability

Sep 17, 2015 (SPX)

The first 1-metre high resolution optical satellite imagery from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation satellites has been released. This follows the successful laun...

Sentinel-2 catches eye of algal storm

Sep 07, 2015 (ESA)

The Sentinel-2A satellite has been in orbit for only a matter of weeks, but new images of an algal bloom in the Baltic Sea show that it is already exceeding exp...

SMAP ends radar operations

Sep 03, 2015 (JPL)

Mission managers for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite's two science instruments, can ...

First global antineutrino emission map highlights Earth's energy budget

Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)

The neutrino and its antimatter cousin, the antineutrino, are the tiniest subatomic particles known to science. These particles are byproducts of nuclear reacti...

Russia to Develop Earth Remote-Sensing Satellite System for Iran

Aug 26, 2015 (Sputnik)

Earlier in the day, Iranian Vice President Sorena Sattari reiterated Tehran's interest in cooperating with Russia in the space and aviation industries. Two Russ...

Sentinel-1A watching Jakobshavn glacier in action

Aug 24, 2015 (ESA)

Satellite images show that the fastest moving glacier in the world shed a chunk of ice measuring around 12.5 sq km this week - one of the most significant calvi...

Putting NASA Earth Data to Work

Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)

Satellites orbiting Earth hundreds of miles above the planet's surface are helping put information into the hands of people around the world who make critical d...

Sentinels catch river traffic jam

Aug 10, 2015 (ESA)

Low water levels in the Danube river have left ships to queue close to the town of Zimnicea in Romania. The present heat wave torturing Europe means the level o...

China to launch Jilin-1 satellite in October

Aug 05, 2015 (XNA)

Northeast China's Jilin Province plans to send Jilin-1, the country's first self-developed remote sensing satellite for commercial use, into space in October, i...

California 'Rain Debt' Equal to Average Full Year of Precipitation

Aug 01, 2015 (JPL)

A new NASA study has concluded California accumulated a debt of about 20 inches of precipitation between 2012 and 2015 - the average amount expected to fall in ...

NASA satellite images Alaska's scorched earth

Jul 31, 2015 (UPI)

Alaska was on pace for a record-breaking year of wildfires, but an uptick in precipitation has cooled things. Even if fires have died down in recent days, the e...

Dartmouth-NASA collaboration reveals new X-ray actions

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Potentially destructive high-energy electrons streak into Earth's atmosphere from space, not as Shakespeare's "gentle rain from heaven," but at velocities appro...

First applications from Sentinel-2A

Jul 29, 2015 (ESA)

From agricultural monitoring to charting changing lands, early images from Europe's new Sentinel-2A satellite show how the 'colour vision' mission's critical ob...