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DigitalGlobe, a provider of high resolution satellite world imagery products and services, launched ImageAtlas 4.0. This is the newest version of its online store for high-resolution digital earth imagery, and enables companies in real estate, civil engineering, government, insurance, GIS and public safety to easily and affordably access on-demand satellite and aerial images of specific locations, properties and neighborhoods.
Read MoreNASA satellites, aircraft, and research know-how have created a wealth of cutting-edge tools to help firefighters battle this summer's wildfires (Smokey the Bear would be proud).
Read MoreAs part of the European Space Agency's user-driven approach to preparing new Earth Explorer missions to advance our understanding of the Earth system, six candidate missions will be presented to the science community at a User Consultation Meeting in January 2009.</b></font> The meeting follows the <i>Call for Core Earth Explorer</i> Ideas released in 2005, and the subsequent selection of six missions to undergo assessment studies out of 24 original proposals. As the assessment period draws to a close, the goal is to select up to three of the missions for the next stage — feasibility study.
Read MoreA remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week. The aircraft collected information that will be now used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning across the state. The Ikhana aircraft is imaging almost 4,000 square miles from Santa Barbara north to the Oregon border.
Read MoreColumbus Geographic Systems Ltd. (Pink Sheets: CGSE) has announced they have reached an important understanding with DigitalGlobe, a leader in high-resolution commercial imagery and supplier of the popular Google Earth website imagery.
Read MoreEfforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA.
Read MoreSSTL's privately funded UK-DMC-2 has today passed its Test Readiness Review (TRR) at its Manufacturing Integration and Test Facilities in Guildford, United Kingdom.
Read MoreRapidEye's constellation of five satellites will download an enormous amount of data with the capability to image up to four million square kilometers of the earth's surface daily.
Read MoreThe wait is almost over as the expectation of an imminent launch adds excitement to the RapidEye Team these days
Read MoreSurrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has secured a contract worth 1.6 million euros from Astrium GmbH, Germany, to proceed with work on a new contract to develop and supply the Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) EarthCARE Mission.
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