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SMOS maps record soil water before flood
Jun 13, 2013 (ESA)
As parts of central Europe are battling with the most extensive floods in centuries, forecasters are hoping that ESA's SMOS satellite will help to improve the a...
Big data from space: Imagery of Rome delivered in near real time
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
DMCii and long-term partner Spacemetric, have successfully delivered an image from satellite to end-user in just 11 minutes, as part of a demonstration at the E...
NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometer
Jun 10, 2013 (SPX)
A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instr...
New maps show how shipping noise spans the globe
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
The ocean is naturally filled with the sounds of breaking waves, cracking ice, driving rain, and marine animal calls, but more and more, human activity is addin...
Landsat 8 Satellite Begins Watch
Jun 03, 2013 (SPX)
NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D. The event marks...
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Team Assemble Flight Observatory
Jun 03, 2013 (SPX)
On May 20, 2013, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reached an unprecedented milestone...
Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greener
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part ...
NASA Ships Sensors for Seafaring Satellite to France
May 24, 2013 (JPL)
Three NASA-built instruments that are integral components of the next in a series of U.S./European ocean altimetry satellites have arrived in France for integra...
NASA's Landsat Satellite Looks for a Cloud-Free View
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
For decades, Landsat satellites have documented the desiccation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once one of the largest seas in the world, it shrunk to a tenth...
Google team captures Galapagos Island beauty for maps
May 23, 2013 (AFP)
Google has followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin to gather images of the beauty and biological diversity of the Galapagos Islands for the Internet titan's...
New Animation Marks Arrival of NASA's LDCM Satellite to its Final Orbit
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to watch the world fly by beneath you from space? That dream is elusive for most of us, but the Landsat Data Contin...
NASA Helps Pinpoint Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing ...
NRL's MIGHTI Slated for Launch on ICON Mission
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
A Naval Research Laboratory instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a satellite mission that NASA has selected to move forward into dev...
Team Wins Cubesat Berth to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy b...
1000mph land speed attempt relies on DMCii eye in the sky
May 16, 2013 (SPX)
Bloodhound product sponsor DMCii has provided regular imagery to monitor test track conditions on the Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape of South Africa. During ...
New Public Application of Landsat Images Released
May 16, 2013 (SPX)
Google released more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space Thursday compiled into an interactive time-lapse experience. Working with data f...
Skybox Imaging Announces Strategic Partnership with Japan Space Imaging
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
Skybox Imaging (Skybox), an emerging provider of timely high-resolution satellite imagery and full motion video, has entered into a multi-year, strategic partne...
e2v image sensors launched into space on board Vietnam's first optical Earth observation satellite
May 14, 2013 (SPX)
On 7th May 2013, e2v high performance image sensors were launched into space on-board Vietnam's first optical Earth observation satellite, the Vietnam Natural R...
Vietnam to launch second remote sensing satellite into orbit by 2017
May 14, 2013 (XNA)
Vietnam plans to launch the second remote sensing satellite, VNREDSat-1B, into orbit by 2017, after successfully launching the first of this kind on May 7, loca...
ESA's next Earth Explorer satellite Will Map The Tropics
May 13, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has selected 'Biomass' to become the seventh Earth Explorer mission. The innovative satellite aims to map and monitor on...
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