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An article in the online version of The East African publication, bylined by Philip Ngunjuiri, reports that The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (Ciat) has an initiative to produce the first detailed digital soil map of all 42 sub-Saharan countries.
Read MoreChile’s Chait?n Volcano had been dormant for more than 9,000 years when it erupted in May 2008. In the months that followed, the volcano remained active, releasing plumes of steam and volcanic ash, coating local vegetation, clogging waterways, and inundating the nearby town of the same name.
Read MoreBased on a cooperative agreement, ESA has been delivering data from ALOS — Japan's four-ton Earth Observation satellite — to users across Europe and Africa since the satellite's launch three years ago.
Read MoreGeoEye-1 collected an image over the United States Capitol and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken from 423 miles in space, is the world’s highest resolution, color satellite image of the Inaugural celebration.
Read MoreAs is the case for most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA’s TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify surface and underground water resources in the drought-prone country.
Read MoreA facility modeled after Purdue University's Terrestrial Observatory that will be used to provide early warning and mitigate the effects of disasters such as epidemics, famine, and flooding, will be built in Egypt as part of a NATO-funded effort.
Read MoreNASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft.
Read MoreDigitalGlobe and The AEgis Technologies Group are making available ImageScape, a rapid 3D imagery solution that will provide governments, enterprises, and developers with the capability to create rich simulations of any location in the world.
Read MoreOn January 4, 2009, a mountainside in northern Guatemala suddenly collapsed.
Read MorePCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of hardware/software systems for geo-imaging applications.
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