Here’s Looking @ Earth: A Nearly Perfect Millennium
Millennium Island — known as Caroline Island prior to 2000 — is located at the southern end of the Line Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Geomatica Is Polarimetric SARsync’d + RapidEye’d By PCI Geomatics
PCI Geomatics has upgraded its remote sensing and image processing software — Geomatica? 10.2.1 is the latest version of the image-centric desktop software which provides users with additional satellite sensor support as well as new functionality for the SAR Polarimetric Workstation (SPW) .
Read MoreRapidEye Reveals More…
RapidEye has released a selection of 16 demo products generated by the RapidEye system.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Man, Oh, Man… Manam Plumes Off…
Manam Volcano, just off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, released a faint plume on June 28, 2009.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Fiery Forest Fundamentals In Alaska
Forest fires produced hazy skies over interior Alaska during the first week of July 2009.
Read MoreIngestion Is Good For Both NGA + Raytheon
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) marked the transition of an improved capability that will rapidly ingest and disseminate imagery from U.S. commercial satellite companies to warfighters and intelligence analysts worldwide.
Read MoreFill ‘er Up, UAVs Determine Crops’ Needs
Andalusian scientists of the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), part of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), and the University of C?rdoba (UCO) are leading a campaign of measures in the USA to estimate crop water needs using their own system of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) equipped with thermal multispectral cameras.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Being Number Four Makes Madagascar Mighty Magnificent
Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, is highlighted in this Envisat image.
Read MoreIndia and Europe Go Fishing with Satellites and Get Square With Cubes
India's indigenous Oceansat-2 satellite will be launched next month from Sriharikota spaceport on the east coast and will also carry with it a set of six nano satellites, all of European origin.
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