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NASA Damage Map Helps in Typhoon Disaster Response
Nov 18, 2013 (JPL)
A new, space-based map generated by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency to assist i...
Satellites to probe Earth's strange shield
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
Europe next week will launch a trio of hi-tech satellites to explore something that may seem utterly mundane: Earth's magnetic field. After all, magnetism has b...
NASA Helps Melt Secrets of Great Lakes Ice
Nov 18, 2013 (JPL)
Two scientists from NASA and NOAA have developed a new space-based technique for monitoring the ice cover of the Great Lakes that is so accurate it can identify...
Scientists nearing forecasts of long-lived wildfires
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a new computer modeling technique that offers the promise, for the first time, of producing continually updated daylong predictions of...
UMD, Google and gov. create first detailed map of global forest change
Nov 15, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Maryland-led, multi-organizational team has created the first high-resolution global map of forest extent, loss and gain. This resource greatly ...
UN tasks imaging satellites for Haiyan relief
Nov 14, 2013 (AFP)
The United Nations has activated a constellation of satellites to help relief operations in the typhoon-ravaged Philippines, an official said on Thursday. Cathe...
Satellites packed like sardines
Nov 11, 2013 (ESA)
The complex task of placing all three Swarm satellites on their launch adapter is complete. This is another significant milestone in preparing ESA's latest Eart...
Global map provides new insights into land use
Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)
In order to assess the global impacts of land use on the environment and help provide appropriate countermeasures, a group of researchers under the leadership o...
Watching Earth's Winds, On a Shoestring
Nov 05, 2013 (JPL)
Built with spare parts and without a moment to spare, the International Space Station (ISS)-RapidScat isn't your average NASA Earth science mission. Short for R...
Researchers Turn to Technology to Discover a Novel Way of Mapping Landscapes
Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)
University of Cincinnati researchers are blending technology with tradition, as they discover new and improved methods for mapping landscapes. The research is n...
Sensor Payloads Lift Off With Availability of Complete Hyperspectral Airborne Solution
Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)
Responding to customer demand across the remote sensing industry for small, light, and power-efficient spectral imaging solutions, Headwall has announced availa...
Astrium partners with information and analytics specialist IHS to support GEOINT community
Nov 04, 2013 (SPX)
Astrium has announced that the GEO-Information activities of Astrium Services have entered into a partnership agreement with IHS, the leading global source of d...
Primary GOES-R Instrument Ready to be Installed Onto Spacecraft
Nov 04, 2013 (SPX)
A key instrument that will fly on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R (GOES-R) spacecraft, NOAA's next-generation of geostationary satelli...
Seeing in the dark
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
Thermal infrared (IR) energy is emitted from all things that have a temperature greater than absolute zero. Human eyes, primarily sensitive to shorter wavelengt...
Hi-tech aqueduct explorers map Rome's 'final frontier'
Oct 29, 2013 (AFP)
Armed with laser rangefinders, GPS technology and remote control robots, a group of speleologists is completing the first ever mapping of the aqueducts of ancie...
Developing Next Generation K-12 Science Standards
Oct 29, 2013 (SPX)
Teaching and learning science in U.S. K-12 schools just got more interesting. Working with the National Research Council (NRC), an advisory group of scientists,...
Canadian Satellite SCISAT Celebrating 10 Years Of Scientific Measurements
Oct 29, 2013 (SPX)
The Canadian Space Agency is proud to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the SCISAT mission. Launched on August 12, 2003, SCISAT is helping a team of Canadian a...
Time is ripe for fire detection satellite
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
As firefighters emerge from another record wildfire season in the Western United States, University of California, Berkeley, scientists say it's time to give th...
Astrium delivers microwave radiometer for the Sentinel-3A satellite
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Astrium, the world's second ranking space company, has delivered the proto-flight model (PFM) of the microwave radiometer (MWR) (an instrument for the European ...
NASA satellites help track volcanic ash affecting air travel
Oct 25, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says its Earth-observing satellites are helping improve forecasts of ash clouds from volcanic eruptions that can be major disruptions of aviation services....
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