We here at VerySpatial have received our first honest to goodness press release! What is more, its for an actually useful product. Pixel742 generates distributable GeoTIFFs from Landsat bands 7, 4, & 2 to create a Natural color output. There is a demo but I haven’t plyed with it yet.
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Category Archives: Remote Sensing
Satellite imagery shows Arctic ice melt
Whatever your beliefs on the global warming issue, the recent spate of articles on the melting of Arctic ice and the warming of the climate in Alaska seem pretty scary. Satellite imagery is being used to show that the Arctic ice cap is shrinking at an alarming rate.
You can check out the MSNBC.com article here
Here is another at the London Times Online
Day and Night around the World
If you simply must know where it is day and night around the world, here are a couple of websites for you.
time.gov keeps the official U.S. time via atomic clock and has a feature which shows where the sun is shining and where it is dark when you click on a time zone. Check it out here
The second website, by John Walker (founder of AutoDesk), offers the Earth and Moon Viewer, which has the day and night feature, as well as views of the earth from the moon, and the day and night sides using satellite imagery. It is much more of a webmapping interface, with query boxes to change the view and type of imagery.
Check out the Earth and Moon Viewer here
BBC NEWS | ‘Milky seas’ detected from space
This article gives an overiew of how remote sensing has been used to capture imagery of a luminescent bacteria ‘event’ commonly referred to as ‘milky seas’ BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Milky seas’ detected from space
BBC NEWS | Ice explorer readies for launch
The ESA will soon be launching a new satellite to measure the ice levels at the poles to determine if the prediction that global warming is impacting ice levels is true. From the article, the main sensor will be radar.
RS desktop images
A nice collection of desktop images generated from remote sensing imagery Jeff’s Homepage
Via Digg
BBC NEWS | Mars probe gets mission extension
The European Space Agency has decided to extend the life of the Mars Express Spacecraft which is the platform for the radar sensor that has provided elevation and other information of Mars. For the full story head over to the BBC.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars probe gets mission extension
The start of Google Maps Messages?
Data is data. Sure Google gives folks a great interface to view it, but aerial and sattelite images have been captured for decades. Archaeologists have found archaeological sites via aeiral photos since the 1960s, Roman Villas and all. Folks aware of remote sensing have been leaving things to be seen in images, for good and bad, for almost as long as RS has been around…ok rant complete. The start of Google Maps Messages?
Real-time Ship Tracking
IBM and Maersk (Danish shipping company) announced they are teaming up on a project to provide real-time wireless tracking for cargo ships, via a device attached to individual cargo containers. They’re actually going to start testing this fall.
Read the article here
(via abcnews.com)
The Full Moon Atlas
This is an image map of Lunar photographs. It is broken into sections so that you can zoom in to few more detail of different portions of the moon. Check it out at The Full Moon Atlas
Via The Map Room