EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)

Climate change is a global phenomenon, yet Earth scientists are keeping a wary eye on one place in particular--the Arctic. "Polar regions are important for us t...

Europe secures new generation of weather satellites

Oct 20, 2014 (ESA)

Contracts were signed last week to build three pairs of MetOp Second Generation satellites, ensuring the continuity of essential information for global weather ...

NASA Begins Sixth Year of Airborne Antarctic Ice Change Study

Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)

NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation IceBridge research flights over Antarctica to study changes in the continent's ice sheet, glaciers ...

Chinese scientist proposes new scientific satellites

Oct 16, 2014 (XNA)

A Chinese scientist has proposed a series of satellites to monitor "global change," or planetary-scale changes concerning the Earth. Speaking at the ongoing Asi...

Russia to Conduct Observation Flights Over Canada and US

Oct 15, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

A team of Russian aviation inspectors will conduct observation flights over Canada and the United States under the Treaty on Open Skies, the head of the Russian...

Nimbus: NASA Remembers First Earth Observations

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali was world heavyweight champion, Beatlemania arrived in America, gasoline cost around 30 cents a gallon in the United States and NA...

EO Investment and Data

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

According to Euroconsult's newly published report, Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Market Prospects to 2023, 353 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expect...

First-of-its-kind Geostationary Lightning Mapper Completed for GOES-R Satellite

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R (GOES-R) completed development and testing ...

Space-based methane maps find largest US signal in Southwest

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

An unexpectedly high amount of the climate-changing gas methane, the main component of natural gas, is escaping from the Four Corners region in the U.S. Southwe...

My Planet from Space

Oct 08, 2014 (ESA)

The fragility and beauty of our planet came into focus yesterday with a special viewing of satellite images at Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni. The event was a...

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum

Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)

Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term s...

NASA's New Winds Mission Installed, Gathers First Data

Oct 08, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's newest Earth observing mission, the International Space Station-Rapid Scatterometer, or ISS-RapidScat, is collecting its first science data on ocean wind...

NASA Aeronautics Research Tests New Tool for Early Wildfire Detection

Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's research in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) may soon provide a means for early detection and mitigation of fires in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlif...

ADS and Exelis To Provide ENVI Users Integrated Access to Imagery

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space and Exelis are teaming up to provide users of ENVI image analysis software an exclusive, limited time voucher offer for new imagery as ...

First Copernicus satellite now operational

Oct 07, 2014 (ESA)

With the commissioning of Sentinel-1A completed and the satellite's transfer to the team in charge of its exploitation, its data are available as of today to al...

CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep

Oct 07, 2014 (ESA)

ESA's ice mission has been used to create a new gravity map, exposing thousands of previously unchartered 'seamounts', ridges and deep ocean structures. This vi...

Observing the Birkeland currents

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

When the supersonic solar wind hits the Earth's magnetic field, a powerful electrical connection occurs with Earth's field, generating millions of amperes of cu...

New NASA Video Gives Hurricanes a Good 'HIWRAP'

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

A new animation from NASA shows how a remarkable instrument called the HIWRAP looks into tropical cyclones at wind, rain and ice to analyze storm intensity. The...

NASA Study Finds Earth's Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed

Oct 07, 2014 (JPL)

The cold waters of Earth's deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming a...

US Initiates Prototype System to Gauge National Marine Biodiversity

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA are funding three demonstration projects that will lay the foundation for the first national...