Remote Sensing
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
“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 […]
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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 […]
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Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
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 […]
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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 […]
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Landsat 5 update
According to the USGS’s Landsat Program website, testing of Landsat 5’s solar array began on January 3rd and will continue until January 5th. Information related to the testing will be […]
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Orthorectified Landsat Digital Data Now Available
On Tuesday, the USGS issued a press release that they are now offering orthorectified Landsat 4, 5 and 7 free for download from the Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) or from […]
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One year after the Indian Ocean tsunami
Just before Christmas, the European Space Agency issued a press release reviewing the use of geospatial technologies and data in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004 […]
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
LIDAR mapping of changing shorelines
An interesting article from The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) discusses the impact of rising sea levels on the Maryland coastline, including the submergence of numerous small islands and talks briefly […]
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GIS_Software, Groups, Remote Sensing
States wary of Google’s Bird’s Eye View
Although this has been blogged in one form or the other several times over the last few months, I think it’s an increasingly pressing issue. States are having real problems […]
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The Gigapxl Project
The Gigapxl Project is based on an amazing super-high resolution camera built by Graham Flint, which he has used to take amazing landscape pictures, including a panorama of Pittsburgh, which […]
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