The EUMETSAT Council Decides Third METEOSAT Generation’s Future
EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 65th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 9th.
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Meteosat-8 Rapid Scan Shoots Asteroid on Impact Over Sudan
A rare series of events occurred early Tuesday morning, October 7, as asteroid 2008 TC3 hit Earth releasing a huge amount of light and energy before exploding in the atmosphere over northern Sudan. Even better is that amazingly, the Meteosat-8 Rapid Scanning Service managed to capture the impact.
Read MoreKutztown First Subject For GeoEye-1
GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has released the first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from its recently launched GeoEye-1 satellite.
Read MorePCI Gets Down and Dirty with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiative
Where would we be without agriculture and specific regions described as the "the cereal, bread, salad and fruit bowls" of the world? In an effort to be even more productive PCI Geomatics, software and solutions developer for geospatial imaging applications, will provide technology and training services to support its soil survey projects at 1:20000 and 1:50000 scale of the Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI).
Read MoreKudos To Ikonos, Lockheed Martin + GeoEye
The IKONOS commercial remote sensing satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has achieved its ninth year of on-orbit service and continues to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth to commercial and government customers around the world.
Read MoreGlobalstar Catches and Measures Wind
How to measure the wind — Globalstar, Inc. [Nasdaq:GSAT], a major provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments and individuals, today announced that Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas), a
Read MoreDMCii Scientist’s Image Is Quite Consistent
Remote sensing solution provider DMCii's Chief Scientist, Dr. Steve Mackin, has pioneered a new approach for deriving quality control indicators from Disaster Monitoring Constellation data.
Read MoreNASA’s Aqua Sat Reveals Arctic Sea On the Rocks, Lowest Point This Year
NASA has circulated some amazing photos of the Arctic sea ice coverage that show its lowest extent for the year, and the second-lowest amount recorded since the dawn of the satellite era, according to observations from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Read MoreGeoEye To Initiate Commercial SatOps Soon For GeoEye-1
With the GeoEye-1 satellite's successful launch on September 6th, GeoEye will be ready to start full commercial operations for GeoEye-1 imaging products a few months after launch. For the next 45- to 60-days, engineering and calibration tests will be completed.
Read MoreITT — ITT’s a Good Thing!
Mission accomplished for ITT Corporation as they celebrated the successful launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite and its ITT-built imaging payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Once fully operational, GeoEye-1 will boast the highest resolution of any commercial satellite imaging system on the market.
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