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Satellites help to retrace travel routes of Bronze Age herders in China
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
Satellite images allowed researchers to map the distribution of archaeological evidence across the 640,000-square-mile autonomous region known as Xinjiang, acco...
ISS: 20 years looking over Earth
Nov 04, 2020 (ESA)
The International Space Station celebrates a huge milestone on 2 November 2020. For two decades, it has continuously hosted humans in space. Eighteen ESA astron...
Germany land motion mapped
Nov 04, 2020 (ESA)
Land-surface deformation, such as subsidence, often happens because of changes that take place underground such as groundwater extraction, mining, natural conso...
Climate change space project awarded to Airbus UK
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
The mission will not only make measurements itself, but also improve the performance of other missions through calibration from space, becoming a new 'gold stan...
Large, deep Antarctic Ozone Hole persisting into November
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached its peak size at about 9.6 million square miles (24.8 million square kilometers), roughly three times the area of the co...
Location and extent of coral reefs mapped worldwide using advanced AI
Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)
Many approaches, such as diver-based observation and satellite imagery, have been used to estimate the distribution of coral reefs around the world, but past ap...
NASA Funds Projects to Make Geosciences Data More Accessible
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
The sheer amount of data provided by NASA gives scientists and the public the extensive Earth science information they need for informed research and decision-m...
Space companies use Earth-imaging satellites to combat climate change
Oct 28, 2020 (UPI)
Such satellites monitor a range of climate conditions, such as sea levels, deforestation and the release of greenhouse gases, particularly methane, according to...
Preparing for Sentinel-6's challenging early days
Oct 28, 2020 (ESA)
The 1.5-tonne Copernicus Sentinel-6 'Michael Freilich' spacecraft will launch on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg, California, in the United States. On...
China launches new remote-sensing satellites
Oct 28, 2020 (XNA)
Belonging to the Yaogan-30 family, the satellites were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 11:19 p.m. (Beijing Time). The satellites have entered the ...
TCarta develops AI-based commercial bathymetric mapping technologies
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
"The NSF grant has brought value to the bathymetric mapping arena in many ways," said TCarta President Kyle Goodrich. "We have applied the newly developed satel...
Aspectum and Planet enter into a partnership
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
Planet is the leading provider of global, near-daily satellite imagery data and insights that pilots the world's largest active fleet of Earth-imaging satellite...
Satellite Data Meets Cellular DNA for Species of Interest
Oct 23, 2020 (SPX)
"The innovative methods in this project can determine the presence of fish species over a wide area, more efficiently than previous sampling methods," said Jay ...
SEOSAT-Ingenio: fully loaded
Oct 23, 2020 (ESA)
SEOSAT-Ingenio arrived safely at the Guiana Space Centre on 25 September, where it was then transferred to the Payload Preparation Complex along with its co-pas...
A new way of looking at the Earth's interior
Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)
Then there are the volcanic rocks that emerge in some places on the Earth's surface from deep within and provide important clues about the chemical composition ...
GHGSat reports smallest methane emission ever detected from space with microsatellite
Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)
Less than a week after the September launch of GHGSat-C1 ('Iris'), GHGSat Inc. recorded the microsatellite's first successful measurement of a methane emission ...
Rogue cubesats eye Hurricane Sally from space
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
The Aerospace Corporation's Rogue Alpha/Beta CubeSats sent compelling imagery of the hurricane to Earth via laser communications, demonstrating how a small sate...
Satellites keep eye on crawfish for gourmets
Oct 21, 2020 (XNA)
Soon, they will have a new group of beneficiaries-gourmets in love with freshwater crawfish-known in Chinese as xiaolongxia, or little lobsters. A domestic spac...
Predicting tornadoes on UK cold fronts for the first time
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
Around 30 tornadoes occur in the UK each year, 40% of which develop on cold fronts - but a lack of forecasting methods for these conditions means they strike wi...
ICEYE shares nearly 18,000 satellite image archive under Creative Commons License
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
"The ICEYE SAR satellite constellation is here for the global community of decision makers, data users, and more, to improve our shared world around us all," sa...
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