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Apple unveils maps program, challenging Google
Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)
Apple unveiled its own mapping program Monday, challenging Google for the popular software application and opening up a new front in the war with the maker of t...
Taking action for GMES
Jun 07, 2012 (ESA)
Representatives from the areas of economy, health, energy, agriculture, climate change, disaster management and key decision makers gathered in Copenhagen, Denm...
CryoSat goes to sea
May 31, 2012 (ESA)
CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies....
LiDAR Technology Reveals Faults Near Lake Tahoe
May 30, 2012 (SPX)
Results of a new U.S. Geological Survey study conclude that faults west of Lake Tahoe, Calif., referred to as the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, pose a substa...
S Korea to develop geostationary satellite for environmental monitoring
May 30, 2012 (Xinhua)
South Korea has fully embarked on the development of a geostationary environmental satellite with the goal of launching it in 2018, the government said Monday. ...
Satellite maps ocean floor
May 29, 2012 (UPI)
A European satellite launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the arctic is also yielding high-resolution mapping of the ocean floor, scientists say. Wh...
My American Landscape Contest: A Space Chronicle of Change
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the United States' Landsat Earth-observing program - which first rocketed into space on July 23, 1972 - NASA and the U....
Nea Kameni volcano movement captured by Envisat
May 25, 2012 (ESA)
Archived data from the Envisat satellite show that the volcanic island of Santorini has recently displayed signs of unrest. Even after the end of its mission, E...
City's population is counted from space
May 24, 2012 (UPI)
The population of an entire city has been estimated from space to speed up medical and disaster relief efforts, British researchers say. The London School of Hy...
Unparalleled Views of Earth's Coast With HREP-HICO
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
Scanning the globe from the vantage point of the International Space Station is about more than the fantastic view. While cruising in low Earth orbit, the space...
Moscow court upholds ban against satellite image distributor
May 15, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
A Moscow court upheld a ban on Friday prohibiting the Russian research and development company ScanEx from distributing satellite images of Earth at a resolutio...
New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest
May 14, 2012 (JPL)
Its construction now complete, the science instrument that is the heart of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft - NASA's first mission dedica...
ESA declares end of mission for Envisat
May 11, 2012 (ESA)
Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-e...
Spotlight on Sentinel-2
May 08, 2012 (ESA)
The vast potential of ESA's upcoming Sentinel-2 satellites came into focus last week at a symposium in Italy on how they will benefit current and future project...
GeoEye Proposes Acquisition Of DigitalGlobe
May 07, 2012 (SPX)
GeoEye, Inc. said Friday that it is proposing to acquire DigitalGlobe, Inc. The combined company would create the world's largest fleet of high resolution comme...
Report warns of rapid decline in US Earth observation capabilities
May 04, 2012 (SPX)
A new National Research Council report says that budget shortfalls, cost-estimate growth, launch failures, and changes in mission design and scope have left U.S...
Lockheed Martin Completes Key Integration Milestone on GeoEye-2
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the imaging payload for GeoEye's (NASDAQ: GEOY) next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite...
Risat-1 satellite raised to its final intended orbit
May 01, 2012 (IANS)
India's own Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1), launched on Thursday, has been placed in its final intended orbit, said the country's space agency said Saturday....
NASA Image Gallery Highlights Earth's Changing Face
May 01, 2012 (JPL)
In celebration of this year's Earth Day on April 22, NASA's Global Climate Change website has unveiled a new version of its popular image gallery, "State of Flu...
NASA's Landsat Satellites See Texas Crop Circles
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this time series animation of 40 years of Landsat images. In the dr...
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