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Getting the most out of atmospheric data analysis
Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers based at a number of centers, including Kanazawa University, has developed a mutual information approach to interpreting atmospheric data ...
Free satellite data to help tackle public sector challenges
Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)
The UK Space Agency's Space for Smarter Government Programme (SSGP) will provide access to archives of images and radar data for research and development projec...
Copernicus Sentinel-5P reveals new nasties
Oct 25, 2018 (ESA)
Air pollution affects people in developed and developing countries alike. In Europe alone, it is estimated that every year 400 000 people die prematurely becaus...
Researchers develop an operative complex scheme for short-range weather forecasts
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
The authors used several global and regional hydrodynamic weather forecasting schemes: UKMO - United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UK), NCEP - National Center ...
NASA watches airglow, the colors of the upper atmospheric winds
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
This light is airglow. Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed their excess energy. Or, it can ...
Zooming in on Mexico's landscape
Oct 23, 2018 (ESA)
The high-resolution land-cover map combines images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 between 2016 and 2018. Sentinel-2 is a two-satellite constellation built fo...
GOES-17 begins move to its new operational position
Oct 23, 2018 (SPX)
On a warm, sunny evening in Cape Canaveral, Florida, NOAA launched its newest geostationary satellite, GOES-S, into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Elev...
Earth observation data market to reach $2.4B
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
The EO market for value-added services (VAS) should reach over $5.7 billion by 2027; potential new service areas with entrants focusing on developing constellat...
Government of Canada to invest $7.2M in exactEarth
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
The investment is being made through the GoC's Strategic Innovation Fund ("SIF"), a program designed to support businesses across all sectors of the economy by ...
Earth's core is definitely solid, study finds
Oct 19, 2018 (UPI)
The research team managed to detect shear waves, or J waves, inside Earth's core. Shear waves can only travel through solid material. "We found the inner core i...
DigitalGlobe expands NASA partnership with sole-source EO data contract
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
This one-year blanket purchase agreement includes four option years. Under this contract, NASA is able to purchase a variety of DigitalGlobe data and services, ...
African smoke-cloud connection target of NASA airborne flights
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
"The cloud deck in the southeast Atlantic is one of the largest on the globe," said atmospheric scientist Paquita Zuidema of the University of Miami, Florida, a...
Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modeling
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
Hydroeconomic models are increasingly becoming an important tool for water resources planning in river basins. Taher Kahil, the IIASA researcher who led the dev...
After two long careers, QuikSCAT rings down the curtain
Oct 15, 2018 (JPL)
Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, QuikSCAT was a unique national resource that far surpassed NASA's original science objectiv...
'Ghost imaging' could make greenhouse gas analysis more precise
Oct 11, 2018 (UPI)
"Monitoring atmospheric greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and ozone is important for assessing how changing levels of these gases ...
High-res data offer most detailed look yet at trawl fishing footprint around the world
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists agree that extensive bottom trawling can negatively affect marine ecosystems, but the central question - how much of the seafloor is trawled, or the ...
Wind holds key to climate change turnaround
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
University of Delaware Professor Wei-Jun Cai co-wrote a paper that appeared in Nature Communications and addresses those questions. Researchers involved in the ...
Monitoring the air pollution in China from geostationary satellites is explored
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
In previous years, measurements in the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and thermal infrared (TIR) bands from low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites are used widely to retr...
Sentinel-2 maps Indonesia earthquake
Oct 09, 2018 (ESA)
Satellite data can be used to support international disaster risk management efforts, such as those in Indonesia. One of the ways in which ESA is contributing t...
Methane's effects on sunlight vary by region
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) came to this conclusion after evaluating observations ...
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