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GMV assesses impact of Turkey earthquake from space
Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)
GMV is using optical imagery of the highest resolution to keep the EU Civil Protection Mechanism's Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) apprised of the...
Umbra agrees to provide Maxar direct access to SAR Constellation
Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)
SAR satellites are able to see past clouds, smoke, and complete darkness using the company's advanced resolution, licensed down to 13 centimeters. "Maxar and Um...
EagleView expands imagery archive and resolution options for all enterprise customers
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
"With EagleView Cloud for enterprise and our innovative, patented capture technologies, we are advancing our capabilities to provide customers and the market wi...
Ursa Space launches Python Toolbox API on Esri ArcGIS Pro Software
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
Ursa Space leverages the world's most comprehensive and progressive satellite data virtual constellation, comprising synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Optical, an...
Earth from Space: Swedish landscape
Feb 13, 2023 (ESA)
Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more about the features in it. The agricultural fields and countrysid...
Esri releases new app to easily view and analyze global land-cover changes
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
Esri, the global leader in mapping and location intelligence, has now released a new online application, Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer. The app is structured a...
Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
Microplastics-tiny flecks that can ride ocean currents hundreds or thousands of miles from their point of entry-can harm sea life and marine ecosystems, and the...
Antarctica's ocean brightens clouds
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
The study helps us better understand the natural processes of cloud formation, says Gerald "Jay" Mace, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Ut...
Faster, more accurate 3D modelling recreates a landscape's digital twin down to the pixel
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
The framework reconstructs the geometry, structure and appearance of an area using highly detailed images taken by aircraft typically flying higher than 30,000 ...
UConn study clears up cloudy data for improved satellite imagery
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
But clouds in satellite imagery are also a big issue for remote sensing and land change scientists. When scientists want to study how land surface is changing, ...
Esri joins the Overture Maps Foundation to help build interoperable open map data
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
To support this demand, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has joined the Overture Maps Foundation-a collaboration founded by Amazon Web Services...
Global land rush
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
When used for agriculture, specifically, new research led by the University of Delaware shows these transnational agricultural large-scale land acquisitions (TA...
Daily data delivery milestone achieved
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
The Vigilance Mission RF data collection satellites are in a sun synchronous low Earth orbit enabling them to collect data daily from the target area of interes...
NASA-ISRO earth science instruments get send-off before moving to India
Feb 03, 2023 (JPL)
It's nearly time for the scientific heart of NISAR - short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar - an Earth science satellite being jointly built by NASA and t...
LeoLabs expands weather radar coverage of Southern Hemisphere in the Indo-Pacific region
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
WASR is the latest addition to LeoLabs network of phased array space radars powering LeoLabs Vertex, its vertically integrated space operations stack which enab...
Esri signs Space Act Agreement with NASA
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
The agreement focuses on extending access to the broader global community of NASA's geospatial content for continued research and exploration-including new data...
ACME Lithium locates samples with high Lithium values using ASTERRA satellite technology
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
The use of ASTERRA technology produced a large number of locations of lithium value of above 100 parts per million (ppm), while traditional methods of explorati...
New data platform to host Copernicus Earth observation data
Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)
On 24 January 2023, the 'Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem' was presented at the European Space Conference in Brussels. In the coming months, this new data ecosys...
Utah researcher to lead study of clouds in cleanest air on Earth
Jan 24, 2023 (SPX)
Climate projections for the entire Earth are sensitive to interactions of aerosols, clouds and precipitation in the atmosphere over the Southern Ocean. Seasonal...
Future-proofing ice measurements from space
Jan 20, 2023 (ESA)
To ensure that ESA and NASA are getting the best out of their ice-measuring satellites and to help prepare for Europe's new CRISTAL satellite, the two space age...
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