Remote Sensing
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Paying your highway tolls via satellite?
I just saw this article on Geocommunity. Apparently , a private company called Mapflow is teaming up with the Dublin Transportation Office (Ireland) to do a feasibility study on the […]
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SRTM data now available from Geosoft’s public server
Geosoft has added Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data to its public server. Elevation data for basically the whole world is available at 90 meter resolution and the US at […]
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Cartography, General, Remote Sensing
Geograph British Isles – photograph every grid square!
Here is a cool UK website that details a project that “aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles” They bill it as […]
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BBC NEWS | Hubble reveals new map of Pluto
Extraterrestrial mapping efforts continue 🙂 The future of Hubble may seem similar to that of Landsat 7, but it is still getting the job done. Archives are nice too… BBC […]
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Continuing issues with Google imagery access
First Australia, then Korea, now the Dutch. However, for the first time I see someone has mentioned the USGS’s National Map. While the National Map focuses on the US and […]
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general, Remote Sensing, WebMapping
How Hot is Aerial Mapping Technology?
This article from GeoCommunity’s Spatial News will tell you…. http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2005/aug/18/news5.html
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