Remote Sensing
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NASA Updates Topographic Maps
NASA has teamed with Japan’s Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center to create a new topographic map covering 99% of the Earth’s landmass. The maps are created using two sets […]
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NRO desclassifies 2 satellite series
Wind up the hoopla as, on September 17th, the NRO declassified the GAMBIT and HEXAGON series satellites. Gizmodo has an interesting photo collection while over on the NRO website there […]
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
The Birth and Death of Irene as Seen From Space
NOAA just released a fascinating video showing the birth and death of hurricane Irene as seen from space. The video was created from imagery captured by the GOES-13 weather satellite. […]
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National Parks From Space
Wired has a beautiful article highlighting the views of US National Parks as seen from space. The views are simply breathtaking. I think a lot of people in the US […]
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Environmental, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
Storm Tracks Move Toward The Poles
Climate models have predicted this for years, but it’s never been observed… until now. Ars Technica discusses the issue in brief. For the non-physical geographers out there (of which I […]
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Data, ESRIUC, GIS_Software, Remote Sensing
ESRI UC 2011 – Jeff’s First Exposition Hall Tour
On Tuesday at the ESRI UC I spent the majority of my day wandering through the many tables and displays set up in the exposition hall. At first I […]
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BBC talks about CryoSat
With the roll out of Cryosat’s first sea-ice map the BBC has posted (reposted?) an interview between Jonathan Amos, Science writer with BBC (does a lot of the space topics) […]
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New Pyramids Found Through Remote Sensing
Finding new pyramids in Egypt! Apparently a team out of NASA used IR cameras to find underground rooms of 17 new pyramids. It also found 1,000 tombs and 3,000 new […]
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Spatial mapping and fish
The R2 Fish School Kit that has been featured on TV shows like ABC News and Animal Planet teaches your fish to play basketball, fetch, and more. It was developed […]
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Where on Earth?
I just played a fun online game called, “Where on Earth” by Point 2 Explore.com which was developed for educational museums and science centers. It shows landmarks from across the […]
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