Don’t Ever Poo-Poo Satellite Imagery Usefulness
Penguin poo (guano) stains, visible from space, have helped British scientists locate emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica.
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Geospatial Engine Enjoys Award
PCI Geomatics has won the Geospatial Innovator Award from GeoTec Media for its ProLines GeoImaging Server, as announced at the GeoTec Event in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Read MoreForestry Forecasts To Be Aided By DMCii’s Sats
DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) has won a 100,000 euros contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to demonstrate the value of its coordinated multi-satellite optical imagery for tropical forest monitoring in Indonesia.
Read More$736 Million Contract GOES-R to Harris Corp.
Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS], has been awarded a 10-year, potential $736 million contract to provide a complete, end-to-end solution for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — Series R Ground Segment (GOES-R GS) program.
Read MoreEuropeans Plan To Get Going With GMES
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 MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Presentation Of Plumes By Kilauea
Plumes 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 MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Rain Forest Decimation — Alarming, As Usual…
The state of Rondonia in western Brazil is one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Not Crop Circles… Lake Circles
Late 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 MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: The Devil’s In The Diversions
During the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth — Mauna Kea Makes For A Topical Volcano Shot From Space
The island of Hawaii is home to four volcanoes monitored by volcanologists: Mauna Loa, Hualalai, Kilauea, and Mauna Kea.
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