Remote Sensing
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More atmospheric Remote Sensing coming
The BBC has an article on a new satellite that will be launched next year that will look at the mesosphere and very high clouds. Apparently the expansion of these […]
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general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
What would the US look like if water rose 3.5 meters?
Harvard magazine has an interesting article about global warming. It’s a longer read than many of our posts, but worth checking out. Of particular note is the artistic rendering of […]
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general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
CloudSat and Calipso satellites successfully launched
I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier because of our slow internet connection in San Juan, but NASA’s 2 new cloud monitoring satellites, CloudSat and Calipso, were successfully […]
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general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
NASA satellites helping to monitor Great Barrier Reef
CNN.com featured an article today about NASA’s role in a global effort to monitor the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, part of the Earth Observing […]
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Events, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), VirtualEnvironments
See a total solar eclipse “live” on your computer
Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a total or near-total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, and South America (see this guide from MSNBC). For the […]
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General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping
Google Mars!
Way cool for space nuts out there like me…. Google Mars! It’s just like Google Local, except with data from Mars. There’s a nice elevation dataset and some interesting visible […]
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General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
Signs of Water on Saturn Moon Enceladus!
Nasa is reporting this after that their Cassini probe has discovered what appears to be liquid water errupting “Old Faithful” style from the surface of Enceladus. As everyone is probably […]
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Biggest Image on the Web
IIPImage has what is touted to be the largest image ever posted on the web. The image is a 86400 x 43200 pixel, RGB, 10.7GB uncompressed TIFF, of….. you guessed […]
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Events, Remote Sensing, VirtualEnvironments
5th International Symposium on Digital Earth – SF2007
We came across information on the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth that will take place in the summer of 2007 in San Francisco. The call for papers should be […]
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Identifying Ancient Maya sites with Remote Sensing
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire, in conjunction with scientists at NASA, have been using remote sensing techniques to identify prehistoric Maya sites in Central America. The dense tropical […]
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