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New Satellite Imagery Now Available for ArcGIS Online Users Worldwide
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
Over 85 million square kilometers of fresh basemap imagery from Airbus Defense and Space is now available in ArcGIS Online. This announcement follows the signin...
Tips from space give long-range warning of flood risk
Jul 06, 2014 (AFP)
Satellite monitoring of tiny changes in the gravitational field of river basins may give up to 11 months' warning of disastrous floods, a study published on Sun...
Taking NASA-USGS's Landsat 8 to the Beach
Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)
Some things go swimmingly with a summer trip to the beach - sunscreen, mystery novels, cold beverages and sandcastles. Other things - like aquatic algae - are b...
ENSO and the Indian Monsoon...not as straightforward as you'd think
Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)
When folks hear the term El Nino, they generally think of two things. 1) A decrease in the amount of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and 2) Chris Farley. Ok, t...
More People Means More Plant Growth
Jul 03, 2014 (SPX)
Ecologist Thomas Mueller uses satellite data to study how the patterns of plant growth relate to the movement of caribou and gazelle. The research sparked an id...
Norway Gets TerraSAR-X Direct Receiving Station
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have signed a multi-million-euro agreement for the delivery and installation of a Direct Receiv...
New NASA Images Highlight US Air Quality Improvement
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
Anyone living in a major U.S. city for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in new NASA satellite images unveiled this w...
Shifting land won't stop your journey
Jun 30, 2014 (ESA)
Subsidence, rockfalls and landslides threaten potentially devastating human and economic consequences across Europe - but satellites can help. Traditional monit...
NASA's OCO-2 Will Track Our Impact on Airborne Carbon
Jun 30, 2014 (JPL)
Every time we get in a car and drive, we burn gasoline, releasing carbon dioxide and other compounds into the air and disturbing Earth's climate. Our use of fos...
ADS launches Radar Constellation Challenge with HisdeSAT
Jun 26, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, in partnership with HisdeSAT, has announced a Radar Constellation Challenge, in order to encourage the development of innovative appli...
NASA NOAA Water Vapor Animations Over Oceans
Jun 26, 2014 (SPX)
Knowing where water vapor is in the atmosphere is one of many factors forecasters use to identify weather features. The NASA/NOAA GOES Project has now created t...
NASA to Launch Carbon Observatory
Jun 26, 2014 (SPX)
In the lexicon of climate change, one word appears more often than any other: "carbon." Carbon credits, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration.... These terms a...
Far more accurate satellite images on the way as US lifts restrictions
Jun 23, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Satellite images have always been a bit fuzzy, thanks to the US government. But now the agency in charge is relaxing its rules, allowing mapping services like G...
China put FY-3C into operation to improve earth observation
Jun 16, 2014 (XNA)
On June 10, the meteorological satellite Fengyun-3C has been put into operation officially which replaced FY-3A to observe in a morning orbit with FY-2B in an a...
US Dept of Commerce Relaxes Resolution Restrictions on DigitalGlobe
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe has announced that it received notice from the U.S. Department of Commerce on its application to allow the company to sell its highest-quality and ...
SpyMeSat Mobile App Now Offers High Resolution Satellite Imagery
Jun 11, 2014 (SPX)
Orbit Logic has announced that the iPhone version of their SpyMeSat mobile app will now offer in-app purchase of recent high resolution satellite imagery. SpyMe...
Google buys satellite imaging firm for $500 mn
Jun 10, 2014 (AFP)
Google announced plans Tuesday to buy the satellite group Skybox Imaging for $500 million, in a move to improve mapping and other services using geospatial data...
Ten year-old Dragon gains new strength
Jun 03, 2014 (ESA)
As ESA and China mark a decade of cooperation, imagery over China's Poyang lake is testament to the new Sentinel satellite's promise of continued radar data acq...
Sentinel-1 aids Balkan flood relief
May 29, 2014 (ESA)
Although not yet operational, the new Sentinel-1A satellite has provided radar data for mapping the floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Heavy rainfall leading to ...
Japan launches land observing satellite
May 26, 2014 (XNA)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. announced that a rocket carrying a land observing satellite has been launched...
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