EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

DLR and the UStuttgart test transmission of EO data using laser communications

Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)

Optical transmission methods, however, offer the possibility of sending data at significantly higher rates. The first transmission tests have now been carried o...

Natural climate processes overshadow recent human-induced Walker circulation trends

Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)

Driven by the east-west sea surface temperature difference across the equatorial Pacific, the Walker circulation is one of the key features of the global atmosp...

Experts reveal that clouds have moderated warming triggered by climate change

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

Even though northern Scandinavia should be strongly affected by global warming, the area has experienced little summer warming over recent decades - in stark co...

Researchers unveil effects of dust particles on cloud properties

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

The research findings also add to a better understanding of how climate is affected by clouds, which are increasingly considered to be among the most important ...

Land-cover dynamics unveiled

Mar 22, 2019 (ESA)

Using three years' worth of optical data, the map can indicate the time of vegetation peak and variability of vegetation across seasons. Developed by GeoVille, ...

Two Chinese Earth observation satellites put into service

Mar 22, 2019 (XNA)

During the tests, the two satellites provided precise data on environmental monitoring, natural resources as well as some natural disasters, according to China'...

Free satellite data available to help tackle public sector challenges

Mar 22, 2019 (SPX)

The archive of images and radar data for research and development projects is available to Government departments, emergency services and local authorities as w...

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps floods in wake of Idai

Mar 21, 2019 (ESA)

Cyclone Idai swept through this part of southeast Africa over the last few days, leaving devastation in its wake. Thousands of people have died and houses, road...

Tunas, sharks and ships at sea

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers at Stanford University have created such a map by analyzing the habitats occupied by more than 800 sharks and tunas and 900 industrial fishing vesse...

Space weather mission will venture deep into space

Mar 15, 2019 (The Conversation)

But forecasting services are only as good as the modelling and the data that underpin them. Currently, space weather forecasting satellites typically record thi...

Nitrogen dioxide pollution mapped

Mar 13, 2019 (ESA)

Air pollution is a global environmental health problem that is responsible for millions of people dying prematurely every year. With air quality a serious conce...

Scientists go to extremes to reveal make-up of Earth's core

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

Advanced laboratory techniques reveal that our planet's metal centre - more than 1,800 miles below the surface - also contains silicon, an element commonly foun...

High CO2 levels can destabilize marine layer clouds

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

This event - which could raise surface temperatures by about 8 Kelvin (14 degrees Fahrenheit) globally - may occur at CO2 concentrations above 1,200 parts per m...

New key players in the methane cycle

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

It is also central in microbiology: In the absence of oxygen, a special group of microorganisms, the so-called methanogenic archaea, can produce methane. Other ...

On its 5th Anniversary, GPM Still Right as Rain

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

Unlike many NASA missions, which are research satellites with delayed data delivery, GPM was engineered to get data to scientists, operational and application u...

D-Orbit Signs Contract for launch and deployment services with Planet Labs

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

The mission will launch in August 2019, on the Vega launch vehicle as part of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept flight (POC flight). ...

KBRwyle Awarded $19M to Perform Flight Ops for USGS Satellite

Feb 22, 2019 (SPX)

The Landsat 7 satellite is part of the Landsat program, a joint initiative of the USGS and NASA. Landsat satellites provide space-based images of the Earth's la...

SNoOPI: A flying ace for soil moisture and snow measurements

Feb 22, 2019 (SPX)

The technology-demonstration mission, SigNals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation, will validate a remote-sensing technique called signals of opportunity. Alth...

Earth's atmosphere stretches out to the Moon - and beyond

Feb 21, 2019 (ESA)

A recent discovery based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, shows that the gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches ...

Astronaut photography benefiting the planet

Feb 18, 2019 (ESA)

Techniques used by astrophotographers looking at the stars and space exploration come together to measure the environmental impact of artificial lights at night...