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Europe keeps a space-based eye on climate change
Apr 22, 2021 (AFP)
But Jean-Noel Thepaut told AFP that the scale of the crisis really struck home in 2019 when he was in Paris with his family during the punishing heat wave that ...
California's worst wildfires are helping improve air quality prediction
Apr 22, 2021 (SPX)
Measurements of air quality depend largely on ground-based sensors that are typically spaced many miles apart. Determining how healthy it is to breathe air is s...
NASA study predicts less Saharan dust in future winds
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
In June 2020, a "Godzilla" dust plume travelled from the Sahara, the planet's largest, hottest desert, across the Atlantic ocean to North America. While this ey...
BlackSky Increases Capacity as Latest Satellite Enters Commercial Operations
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
This latest satellite was launched at 22:30 UTC on March 22, 2021, delivered first insights and began limited commercial operations less than 24 hours later. Fu...
NASA investigates vegetation
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
In the Amazon, NASA Earth scientists monitor forests and bring these data into the hands of local decision-makers. NASA data provides information about the clea...
Spotting greenhouse gas super-emitters
Apr 16, 2021 (JPL)
The data collected by the instrument will help to find super-emitters - the small percentage of individual sources that are responsible for a significant fracti...
Earth from Space: Space Coast, Florida
Apr 16, 2021 (ESA)
Cape Canaveral is a cape and city in Brevard County, in east-central Florida. The cape is separated from the mainland by the Banana River, Merritt Island and th...
Satellite imagery key to powering Google Earth
Apr 16, 2021 (ESA)
In the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, users can now discover our planet in an entirely new dimension - time. With a new feature called Timelapse in ...
Satcom Global and AnsuR Technologies to deliver unique visual communications for EO market
Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)
AnsuR develops software solutions for use in challenging environments, supporting optimised and cost-effective transmission of important and often vital, visual...
Differences of cloud top height between satellites and ground-based radar revealed
Apr 13, 2021 (SPX)
These physical attributes determine the radiative forcing effect of a cloud, or how much incoming radiation that a cloud reflects back to space. Satellites and ...
Four satellites planned to start space-based network
Apr 13, 2021 (XNA)
Yang Tianliang, chief designer of the Hainan Earth-Observation Satellite Constellation System, said recently that four Hainan 1-series optical Earth-observation...
Russia to Launch New Meteor-M Weather Satellite in Late November
Apr 13, 2021 (Sputnik)
The chief of Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said last November that the Meteor-M satellite, numbered "2-3," was planned for launch ...
Tokyo, as you've never seen it before
Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)
Pairing a 3-D model with projection mapping, the Urban Lab project at Tokyo's Mori Building aims to display information about the Japanese capital in different ...
Methane emissions set another record in 2021, carbon dioxide also soars
Apr 07, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration based these findings on an analysis of data from their global sampling network. The prelimin...
NASA, SpaceX to launch air quality sensor over North America
Apr 06, 2021 (UPI)
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for a launch from Space Launch Complex 40 early Friday morning with a 119-minute launch window starting at 12:30 a.m. ED...
Hawkeye 360 announces commissioning of second satellite cluster
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
The trio of satellites, which entered orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in January, have completed functional testing, moved into proper formation, and begu...
SOFIA offers new way to study Earth's atmosphere
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
A decade ago, German researcher Heinz Hubers led a team to improve one of SOFIA's infrared instruments - the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequenc...
NASA selects Geostationary and Extended Orbits Imager Phase A Contracts
Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)
The total value of each of these one-year firm-fixed price contracts is approximately $6M. The work will be performed at the contractors' facilities in Indiana ...
Remote monitoring could boost the use of nature-based solutions to safeguard against natural hazards
Mar 31, 2021 (SPX)
Grey structural measures (a collective term for engineering projects that use concrete and steel) like floodgates, dams, dikes and sea walls are still the most ...
Second Scout gets the go-ahead
Mar 31, 2021 (ESA)
Complementing ESA's series of Earth Explorer research missions, Scout missions are a new element in ESA's Earth Observation FutureEO Programme. The idea is to d...
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