Remote Sensing
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First student-built satellite to launch on Thursday
The SSETI Express, a satellite designed and built by 100 students from 10 universities in Europe will launch from Russia on Thursday. The satellite is equipped with a camera that […]
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Mapping the Universe
If you think it’s ambitious to map the entire earth, check out the Sloan Digital Sky Survey According to their website: “the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious […]
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Glowing oceans… and not from radioactive waste!
Satellite images show glowing sea. It’s always interesting when science can help confirm ghost tales. The real question is this… is it really bacteria or the ghosts of souls lost […]
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DigitalGlobe announces plans for 2 new imaging satellites
DigitalGlobe just announced their plans to launch 2 new imaging satellites, WorldView I and WorldView II, with WorldView I scheduled to launch no later than 2006 and WorldView II no […]
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PixelSense 742
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, […]
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Physical Geography, 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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
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 […]
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RS desktop images
A nice collection of desktop images generated from remote sensing imagery Jeff’s Homepage Via Digg
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