Here’s Looking @ Earth… Lava Laydown — In Idaho
Craters of the Moon lava field is a striking area of recent volcanic activity within Idaho’s Snake River Plain.
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DigitalGlobe Sees A New and Improved World(View-2) Successful Launch!
Delayed by a second stage battery check the launch of WorldView-2 occurred at 11.52 a.m. PDT at Vandenberg AFB, California, making DigitalGlobe the only commercial world-imagery provider with high-resolution, eight-band multispectral capability.
Read MoreRapidEye Assists EOMAP With Spill Surveillance
RapidEye has supplied the German company EOMAP GmbH & Co. KG (Earth Observation and Mapping) with satellite imagery to support mapping services for oil spill monitoring in Australia.
Read MoreRapidEye In the Lotus Position
RapidEye, the geospatial solutions provider that owns and operates a constellation of Earth Observation satellites, announced today a new strategic partnership agreement with Taipei City, Taiwan based Lotus (H&R).
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Depilatory Dust Bedevils Washington State
Visibility dropped to zero in parts of eastern Washington on October 4th, 2009, as a large dust storm blew through the region.
Read MoreCatch the Launch of WorldView-2 Satellite Sensing Bigger and Better
DigitalGlobe [NYSE: DGI], a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial clients, today announced the date and time for the streaming of the WorldView-2 launch, the company’s third high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite.
Read MoreThe Ultimate (Rapid)Eye Test — Send in the Clouds
RapidEye, a geospatial solutions provider that owns and operates a constellation of Earth Observation satellites, announced today that they will supply the state of Bahia with RapidEye satellite imagery through their Brazilian distributor Santiago & Cintra Consultoria.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Depressing Depressions
There are now four tropical cyclones stirring in the Western Pacific: Ketsana, 18W, 19W and now Tropical Depression 20W. The 20th tropical cyclone of the Western Pacific Ocean formed in the overnight hours of September 28 to 29.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Chaitén Chuffing…
After a spectacular explosion in May of 2008, Chile’s Chaiten volcano has erupted continuously for the past 16 months.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Philippines Pummeled…
On September 26, 2009, in a matter of hours, Tropical Storm Ketsana dropped a month’s worth of rain on the Philippine capital of Manila.
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