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The latest meeting of the European Space Council, which was attended by the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, recognized the importance space makes to innovation and competitiveness in the context of the European Plan for Innovation and the European Economic Recovery Plan.
Read MorePlumes continued to rise from Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s big island in late May 2009 — the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite captured this true-color image on May 24, 2009.
Read MoreThe state of Rondonia in western Brazil is one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon.
Read MoreLate in April 2009, astronauts aboard the International Space Station observed a strange circular area of thinned ice in the southern end of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia.
Read MoreDuring the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
Read MoreThe island of Hawaii is home to four volcanoes monitored by volcanologists: Mauna Loa, Hualalai, Kilauea, and Mauna Kea.
Read MoreThe Shiveluch Volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula released a small plume of vapor as the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead on May 10, 2009.
Read MoreIntermap Technologies' Intermap Federal Services, Inc. subsidiary has received a USD $1.2 million contract to provide 3D digital elevation data and other map products for an international project.
Read MoreSPOT Image Corporation has entered into an agreement with KAI Image as the distributor of KOMPSAT-2 products to customers across North America.
Read MoreIt took the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite a full five minutes to fly over this expansive cloud pattern on April 29, 2009.
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