Super Seeps — SatMapping Slicks
Infoterra has completed an oil slick mapping and interpretation project of offshore Seychelles in collaboration with Seychelles Petroleum Company (Seypec).
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Five Projects To Receive Complimentary DMC Imagery
DMCii has announced the selection of 5 science projects that will receive free satellite imagery from the DMC (Disaster Monitoring Constellation) satellites.
Read MoreGlobal Coalition Warrior Military + Emergency Response Demos Get Hughes’ SPACEWAY 3
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is providing rapid deployment of satellite-based broadband capabilities for disaster and emergency response during the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) which occurs from June 15th through the 26th, 2009.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Savage Slide In China
On June 5, 2009, a mountainside collapsed in the Chongqing region of southern China.
Read MoreDamage Assessment Of The Rapid Kind For UAVs
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is a science-based laboratory dedicated to support the U.S. Department of Energy on nuclear and energy research, science, and national defense matters.
Read MoreEmergency —TSF Sent Packing to Pakistan as Millions Flee
Despite complications and conflicts that equate to extreme danger experts in emergency telecommunications were deployed to Peshawar, in the war-torn region of North West Pakistan, on May 22nd.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: A Bridge Named Democracy Quake Quelled
The Honduran city of El Progreso was among the cities most impacted when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake image rattled Central America on May 28, 2009.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Wicked Weather Surrounding Airbus Disappearance
This is an infrared image from Meteosat-9 that reveals the major thunderstorm clusters on the extrapolated flight path of the Air France Airbus 330 which disappeared from radar en-route from South America to France on June 1, 2009. The image is courtesy of EUMETSAT.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Shuddering Shocks, Convulsing Plates, Honduran Horror
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of Honduras at 3:24 a.m. local time (08:24 UTC) on May 28, 2009.
Read MoreHere’ Looking @ Earth: Cyclonic Catastrophe
Residents in eastern India and Bangladesh are still assessing damages from Cyclone Aila after it made landfall as a minimal Category One hurricane/cyclone on May 25th — on May 27th, estimates from those countries placed the total death toll at 130 people and that number is expected to rise, making Aila the deadliest tropical cyclone so far in 2009.
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