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exactEarth's real-time maritime tracking system now fully-deployed
Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)
This revolutionary capability is expected to enable a wide variety of new service capabilities for the global maritime community and to contribute strongly over...
In Solar System's Symphony, Earth's Magnetic Field Drops the Beat
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
This magnetic bubble, known as the magnetosphere, is encased by a boundary region known as the magnetopause, our first barrier to high-energy particles coming f...
Van Allen Probes begin final phase of exploration in Earth's radiation belts
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
The twin Van Allen Probes, launched in August 2012, have confirmed scientific theories and revealed new structures and processes at work in these dynamic region...
ESA satellite spots Island Love
Feb 12, 2019 (ESA)
Satellite's orbiting high above primarily deliver critical information to understand how Earth works, monitor how it is changing and also to make our daily live...
Russian satellite registers unknown physical phenomena in Earth's atmosphere
Feb 12, 2019 (Sputnik)
"With the help of the telescope, we have obtained even more important results than we expected. It looks like we have encountered new physical phenomena... We d...
Swarm helps pinpoint new magnetic north for smartphones
Feb 11, 2019 (ESA)
The World Magnetic Model, the basis for many navigation systems used by ships, Google maps and smartphones, relies on the accurate knowledge of Earth's magnetic...
Open-access sat data allows tracking of seasonal population movements
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
A paper describing the data and methods, which can be applied to other populations and other similar data sets, is available in the online, open-access journal ...
Science key to taking the pulse of our planet
Feb 08, 2019 (ESA)
It goes without saying that the environment has a huge bearing on our quality of life. Clean air and the availability of freshwater and food are among the mere ...
New scale to characterize strength and impacts of atmospheric river storms
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
They are the source of most of the West Coast's heaviest rains and floods, and are a main contributor to water supply. For example, roughly, 80 percent of levee...
Plexscape partners with Birdi to offer up-to-date satellite imagery integration within CAD platform
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
Conventionally, the use of commercial satellite imagery is only possible through costly, time-consuming and inefficient processes, alongside the requirement for...
Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percent
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
Now a University of Washington-led team has found a new reason behind increased methane emissions from a thawing permafrost bog in Alaska: Early spring rainfall...
Visualization of regions of electromagnetic wave-plasma interactions surrounding the Earth
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
The high-energy electrons in the Earth's Van Allen belts are known to be generated by resonant interactions of electromagnetic chorus waves*1) evolving in the m...
Earth-i Updates Satellite Map of Queensland, Australia
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
The map covers the whole of Queensland's 1.9 million km2 and was created by Earth-i for the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (DNRME). The first...
Extreme rainfall events are connected across the world
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
Extreme rainfall - defined as the top five percent of rainy days - often forms a pattern at the local level, for example tracking across Europe. But new researc...
River levels tracked from space
Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)
To model the flow patterns of the river, with its complex network of distributaries, Claudia Kluppelberg, a professor of Mathematical Statistics at TUM, used st...
Russia to launch Arctic weather satellite
Jan 21, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome with Fregat booster and the first hydrometeorological satellite Arktika-M is scheduled...
Researchers develop new zoning tool that provides global topographic datasets in minutes
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
Floodplain zoning is usually performed using complex hydrodynamic models, but modeling results can vary widely across methods and until now there has been no av...
Satellogic signs agreement with CGWIC to launch earth observation constellation of 90 satellites
Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)
Satellogic's team of world-class data scientists is already leveraging its current fleet of spacecraft to deliver planetary scale insights and solutions for a v...
UK Space Agency COMPASS project aims to to improve crop yields for Mexican farmers
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
The Mexican COMPASS project is funded by the UK Space Agency under its International Partnership Programme (IPP) - a five-year, Pounds 152M initiative which is ...
Satellite images reveal global poverty
Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)
If we are to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals - which 93 member countries have committed themselves to - it is particularly important to track the l...
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