EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Apr 14, 2015 (UPI)

It's not enough to simply classify a large swath of habitat as protected. Conservation requires regularly monitoring, researchers at the Vienna University of Te...

NASA Joins Forces to Put Satellite Eyes on Threat to U.S. Freshwater

Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)

NASA has joined forces with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Geological Survey to transform s...

Scientists Take Aim at Four Corners Methane Mystery

Apr 10, 2015 (JPL)

Researchers from several institutions are in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest with a suite of airborne and ground-based instruments, aiming to unco...

Picturing peanut contamination with near infrared hyperspectral imaging

Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)

Study the label of almost any food product and you're likely to see the rather vague warning "May contain peanuts" somewhere on there, unless of course it's a p...

LiDAR studies Colorado flooding and debris flows

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

Scott W. Anderson and colleagues use repeat aerial LiDAR to quantify the erosional impact of the heavy rains that inundated the Colorado Front Range in Septembe...

Increased Rainfall in Tropics Caused by More Frequent Big Storms

Mar 30, 2015 (SPX)

A new study based in part on NASA satellite data has shown that an increase in large, well-organized thunderstorms is behind increased rainfall in the wettest r...

NASA's New Soil Moisture Mapper Goes for a Spin

Mar 30, 2015 (JPL)

Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have commanded the 20-foot (6-meter) reflector antenna on NASA's new Soil Moist...

Study maps development one county at a time

Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) have developed a county-by-county map of the United States' "lower 48" that tells a ...

UK data hub will maximize benefits of Europe's EO program

Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)

The UK is set to host a world-class data facility that will give UK scientists full access to a wealth of new Earth observation data from Europe's cutting-edge ...

US and UAE Ink Bilateral Space Cooperation

Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)

Officials from several departments and agencies of the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency met in Washington, D.C., during the we...

Space Radar Helps Track Underground Water Pollution Risk

Mar 24, 2015 (JPL)

The next time you're digging for buried treasure, stop when you hit water. That underground resource is more valuable than all legendary hoards combined. Ninety...

New NASA Mission to Study Ocean Color, Airborne Particles and Clouds

Mar 20, 2015 (SPX)

NASA is beginning work on a new satellite mission that will extend critical climate measurements of Earth's oceans and atmosphere and advance studies of the imp...

NASA spacecraft in Earth's orbit, preparing to study magnetic reconnection

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Following a successful launch at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are positioned in Earth's orbit to begin the fi...

NASA launches satellites to track 'magnetosphere'

Mar 13, 2015 (AFP)

Four identical satellites which will study the interactions between solar winds and the Earth's magnetic fields blasted off into Space on Thursday and settled i...

MMS: Studying Magnetic Reconnection Near Earth

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission is scheduled to launch into space on March 12, 2015. The mission consists of four spacecraft to observe a phenome...

NASA's Soil Moisture Mapper Takes First 'SMAPshots'

Mar 13, 2015 (JPL)

Fresh off the recent successful deployment of its 20-foot (6-meter) reflector antenna and associated boom arm, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) ob...

Google launches virtual tour of Nepal's Everest region

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

Google launched a virtual tour of Nepal's Everest region on Thursday, allowing armchair tourists a rare glimpse of life in one of the toughest and most inaccess...

UNH Instruments to Lift Off on NASA Four-Satellite Mission March 12

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

On March 12, 2015 at 10:44 p.m. EDT, scientists, engineers, and students from the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Sp...

Scanning Earth, saving lives

Mar 11, 2015 (ESA)

A high-speed camera for monitoring vegetation from space and combating famine in Africa is being adapted to spot changes in human skin cells, invisible to the n...

Chinese HD earth observation satellite comes into service

Mar 09, 2015 (XNA)

China's most advanced earth observation satellite, the Gaofen-2, was put into service on Friday after being launched in August. The services provided by the sat...