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As 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.
Read MoreOver the past two weeks, torrential rains have brought both drought relief and severe flooding to parts of Queensland and Northern Territory in northern Australia.
Read MoreCanadian precision agriculture supplier and consultancy DynAgra has completed its first precision agriculture campaign using DMCii satellite imagery to provide sophisticated agronomic tools to its customers.
Read MoreSPOT Image Corp. has been awarded a contract from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to sell SPOT satellite imagery and related products and services to federal, state, and local government agencies at pre-negotiated rates.
Read MoreGeoEye, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to collect and sell Earth imagery and related products from its GeoEye-1 satellite.
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