Here’s Looking @ Earth: Doing Dubai At Night
The city of Dubai is the largest metropolitan area in the emirate of Dubai, one of the member states of the United Arab Emirates.
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Trickle Down Effect of Launch Delays — WorldView-2 Now Awaits The Go!
As a result of the delay of the Delta II launch, the DigitalGlobe Satellite launch date has been impacted.
Read MoreIkonos Celebrates A Decade Of Imagery Service
The world’s first commercial, high-resolution, Earth imaging satellite, IKONOS, will achieve its 10th year of operation on September 24.
Read MoreWater Use Mapping Boost Out Of Idaho For Landsat Data
The U.S. Geological Survey says data from Landsat satellites played a central role in the creation of a new, award-winning type of water use mapping.
Read MoreIPAD Invests In Imagery From RapidEye
RapidEye has been named as the latest addition to the Prime Vendor Contract by the International Production and Assessment Division (IPAD), Office of Global Analysis (OGA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Rain, Rain, Go Away…
Several storms over the southeastern United States left behind acres of standing water and multiple deaths in September 2009.</font
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… This Lava Is Cool…
Ol Doinyo Langai in Tanzania is the only volcano in the world that erupts natrocarbonatite lava, which is rich in calcium, sodium, and potassium, but low in silica (silicon dioxide).
Read MoreDigitalGlobe Does Good With Euroconsult Award
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has been named Earth Observation Operator of the Year by Euroconsult.
Read MoreSatellite’s Soil + Salinity Studies Soon Starts
The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) Earth observation satellite has been shipped to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia where he will start its launch campaign for a Rockot launch scheduled on November 2nd.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Borneo Is Burning — Mostly On Purpose!
The highlands of Central Kalimantan province in Indonesian Borneo were hidden by clouds on September 13, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image, but the lowlands to the northwest and southeast were shrouded with thick, gray smoke.
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