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First new DoD NEXRAD weather radar installed at Cannon Air Force Base
Jul 11, 2019 (UPI)
Next Generation Weather Radar is a Doppler system that measures motion of clear air and atmospheric phenomena within storms. They are used as part of forecasts ...
Animal observation system ICARUS is switched on
Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)
With the space-based observation system, scientists want to find out more about the life of animals on Earth: on which routes they migrate, under what condition...
Airbus to develop CO3D Earth Observation programme for CNES
Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)
Following launch, expected end of 2022, the Airbus-made CO3D constellation, comprising four identical satellites, will deliver 50cm resolution stereo imagery ac...
Winter monsoons became stronger during geomagnetic reversal
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
The findings were made by a research team led by Professor Masayuki Hyodo (Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University) and published on June 28 in the onl...
Scientists discover the biggest seaweed bloom in the world
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
They confirmed that the belt of brown macroalgae called Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents, based on numerical simulations. It can grow so ...
SSTL expertise enables new space mission for the FORMOSAT-7 weather constellation
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
The launch on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre was attended by SSTL staff including Managing Director, Sarah Parker who said "We are...
China's ocean observation satellites put into operation
Jul 01, 2019 (XNA)
The two satellites represent the country's highest level of marine remote sensing satellites and the delivery signified that China's first batch of ocean observ...
Benin leaps into 21st century with new national map
Jun 28, 2019 (AFP)
Things in the West African state have sure changed since 1957, and the old maps were left in the dust as the population nearly quadrupled and cities and towns e...
Satellite image shows temperatures soaring across Europe
Jun 28, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists with ESA generated a heat map of continental Europe using data collected by the space agency's Copernicus Sentinel-3's Sea and Land Surface Temperatu...
NASA helps warn of harmful algal blooms in lakes, reservoirs
Jun 24, 2019 (SPX)
With limited resources to monitor these often-unpredictable blooms, water managers are turning to new technologies from NASA and its partners to detect and keep...
Airbus built SEOSAT Ingenio is finished and ready for testing
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
The spacecraft will now start a 3 month environmental test campaign which includes the Thermal Balance and Vacuum test, followed by Mechanical Vibration, Acoust...
Satellite observations improve earthquake monitoring, response
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
The satellite imagery provides detailed information about where the earthquakes occurred, how big the surface deformation was, and where the earthquakes occurre...
TanDEM-X reveals glaciers in detail
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
However, basic data about mass changes in glaciers are not easy to obtain. Mass losses are also contributing to rising sea levels on a global scale. As a new an...
SMOS joins forces with top weather forecasting system
Jun 13, 2019 (ESA)
Since its launch in 2009, ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has been providing global observations of emissions from Earth's surface, partic...
Mapping our global human footprint
Jun 13, 2019 (ESA)
The rapid and unplanned urban growth along with the rise in population density brings challenges, such as increased air pollution, inadequate infrastructures an...
NGO works as high seas sleuth to track illegal fishing
Jun 13, 2019 (AFP)
Malarky uses a website called Global Fishing Watch, which was launched by her employer, the NGO Oceana, with Google and a nonprofit called SkyTruth less than th...
Magnetism discovered in the Earth's mantle
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
The old well-known sources of the Earth's magnetic field are the Earth's core - down to 6,000 kilometres deep down inside the Earth - and the Earth's crust: in ...
Remote sensing of toxic algal blooms
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
Monitoring harmful blooms using traditional in-situ methods is not only costly and labor intensive but often requires collaboration across borders. Remote sensi...
New mineral classification system captures Earth's complex past
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
Could a new classification system that accounts for minerals' distinct journeys help us better understand mineralogy as a process of universal and planetary evo...
NASA studies Atmosphere by forming artificial night-time clouds over Marshall Islands
May 31, 2019 (SPX)
This the second flight of the Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo, or WINDY, mission. The mission this time is referred to as Too-WINDY - it's catchie...
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