Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a total or near-total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, and South America (see this guide from MSNBC). For the rest of us, however, NASA and the Exploratorium will be offering a live satellite broadcast of the eclipse from Side, Turkey, starting at 5am Eastern
Google Mars!
Way cool for space nuts out there like me…. Google Mars! It’s just like Google Local, except with data from Mars. There’s a nice elevation dataset and some interesting visible data as well. Of course you can’t search for pizza joints in the area, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction!
Signs of Water on Saturn Moon Enceladus!
Nasa is reporting this after that their Cassini probe has discovered what appears to be liquid water errupting “Old Faithful” style from the surface of Enceladus. As everyone is probably aware, water is the key to life… As the director of the imaging program said, “… we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system
Biggest Image on the Web
IIPImage has what is touted to be the largest image ever posted on the web. The image is a 86400 x 43200 pixel, RGB, 10.7GB uncompressed TIFF, of….. you guessed it! Earth! It should come as no suprise to anyone working in the geospatial community that a large file viewer like this would be used
5th International Symposium on Digital Earth – SF2007
We came across information on the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth that will take place in the summer of 2007 in San Francisco. The call for papers should be coming out soon and abstracts will be due in June. In addition, there is information on the Inaugural Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability that will
Identifying Ancient Maya sites with Remote Sensing
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire, in conjunction with scientists at NASA, have been using remote sensing techniques to identify prehistoric Maya sites in Central America. The dense tropical rain forests in the region make the identification of sites from the air or on the ground very difficult. By analyzing high-resolution imagery and NASA’s
“One Planet, Many People” – New Atlas using Landsat imagery
The United Nations Environment Programme recently published One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, using 30 years of before-and-after Landsat images for 80 sites around the world to provide “insights into the many ways people around the world have changed, and continue to change, the environment.” It is hardcover, and looks really nice,
Landsat 5 has resumed operations
Tim Warner here at WVU just forwarded us the good news that Landsat 5 has resumed acquisition operations for the continental US and international data acquisition will be coming back online in the next few weeks. Engineers were able to make adjustments to Landsat 5′s solar array to give it enough power to continue its
Japan Launches Mapping Satellite
The Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite (nicknamed “Daichi’) was launched on January 24th, after two delays for technical problems. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), The satellite will be used for mapping and to monitor disasters and environmental change around the world. Via Bloomberg and GeoPlace
Leica announces version 9.0 of software suite
I have forgotten to blog this for 3 straight days, and I will wait until we receive our copy before I say too much, but on Jan 12, Leica Geosystems announced version 9.0 of their software suite including Imagine, LPS, and the new Virtual Explorer which included the following improvements:
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