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Sparse microwave imaging: A new concept in microwave imaging technology
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
Sparse microwave imaging is a novel concept in microwave imaging that is intended to deal with the problems of increasing microwave imaging system complexity ca...
Interview With Scott Braun About NASA's Upcoming Hurricane Campaign
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
Scott Braun is the Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission principal investigator and a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Gr...
Test flight over Peru ruins could revolutionize archaeological mapping
Aug 05, 2012 (SPX)
Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if tests underway in Peru of a new system being developed at Vanderbilt Unive...
Chinese mapping satellite handed over to surveying authority
Aug 01, 2012 (XNA)
The company responsible for designing the Ziyuan III, China's first high-resolution remote-sensing satellite for civilian use, has officially transferred its us...
Space Technologies Tackle Human and Environmental Security Problems
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
Secure World Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the Summer 2012 issue of Imaging Notes magazine dedicated to highlighting the urgent, interrelated...
European data center for GMES Sentinel satellites at DLR
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
The ground segment for GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is starting to take shape: The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the Germa...
France orders Google to hand over Street View data
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
France's data-protection authority said Tuesday it wants Google to hand over data secretly collected from Internet users by its Street View mapping cars which i...
exactView-1 satellite operational in orbit
Jul 27, 2012 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has announced the successful separation from the Soyuz launcher and subsequent operation of mission-critical systems onbo...
Digitalglobe And Geoeye Combine To Create A Global Leader
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe, Inc. and GeoEye, Inc. have announced that the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under ...
IGARSS begins in Munich
Jul 26, 2012 (ESA)
World-class scientists, engineers and educators have gathered in Munich, Germany, this week to discuss the latest developments in remote sensing and exchange id...
Lockheed Martin Marks Landsat 40th Anniversary
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
An unprecedented enterprise began 40 years ago when the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) - later renamed Landsat - was launched. Five more Landsat sp...
Earth-observing Camera Launches to International Space Station
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agen...
Landsat Looks and Sees
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
The American sage Yogi Berra once said: "You can see a lot by just looking." The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations f...
GeoEye Signs Two New Seven-Figure GeoEye-1 Imagery Contracts
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
GeoEye recently signed seven-figure agreements with two international partners in the Middle East and Asia for both the renewal and expanded use of GeoEye image...
Why Is Earth So Dry?
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water s...
NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission Becomes an Observatory
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity...
New eyes in the sky
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
Until now, scientists who study air pollution using satellite imagery have been limited by weather. Clouds, in particular, provide much less information than a ...
IGARSS 2012 - 'Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth'
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
One of the most important conferences on geoscience and remote sensing will take place at the International Congress Centre in Munich from 22 to 27 July 2012. T...
MSG-3 set to ensure quality of Europe's weather service from geostationary orbit
Jul 10, 2012 (ESA)
The latest weather satellite in Europe's highly successful Meteosat second-generation series is on its way after lifting off on an Ariane 5 at 21:36 GMT (23:36 ...
Images in an Instant: Suomi NPP Begins Direct Broadcast
Jul 10, 2012 (SPX)
Real-time data that will be used in everything from weather forecasts to disaster response is now being beamed down to Earth from a cone-shaped appendage aboard...
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