Remote Sensing

• May 6, 2010Cartography, general, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing

  Grassroots Mapping for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

  Recently we featured the Grassroots Mapping project, a community participatory mapping initiative from the MIT Media Lab, on the podcast, and now the Grassroots team has headed down to Louisiana […]

• December 18, 2009general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  10th Anniversary of launch of NASA’s Terra satellite

  The data from NASA’s earth observation satellites are critical resources in many areas of research, and it’s important to highlight the achievements of the Earth Observation System program, a multi-national […]

• October 14, 2009Gadgets, general, Human Geography, Navigation, Remote Sensing

  Cops Can’t Track Car with GPS Without Warrent

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation had an interesting piece about two weeks ago that I just ran across.  The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently ruled that it is against their state constitution for […]

• October 6, 2009general, Remote Sensing

  Watch the launch of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite Live!

  DigitalGlobe is getting ready to launch its next commercial Earth imaging satellite, WorldView-2, and you can watch the launch live. Although slightly delayed, the plan for WorldView-2’s launch is now […]

• September 3, 2009general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  California Fires from Space

  In case you haven’t seen this around, BoingBoing.net has a nice link round up for NASA’s photos of the current California fires as seen from space.  The smoke cloud is […]

• July 31, 2009general, Human Geography, Remote Sensing

  Remote Sensing Used to Discover Ancient Roman Site

  Really, what CAN’T geospatial do?  Researchers out of University of Padua in Italy took aerial photos of an area just north of Venice and discovered what used to be Altinum, […]

• April 19, 2009general, Groups, Remote Sensing

  Associations/Groups – Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society

  The RSPSoc – Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society is a UK-based academic association that looks at the application to education, science, research, industry, commerce and the public service of RS […]

• March 2, 2009general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Landsat 5 – 25 years and counting!

  That’s right, it was March 1st, 1984 when Landsat 5 lifted off on a expected 3-year Earth observation mission, and here we are 25 years later, and the old workhorse […]

• February 25, 2009general, Remote Sensing

  Sub-glacial antarctic mountains mapped

  BBC news has an interesting article on the mapping of the Gamburtsevs which lie under the ice in Antarctica. The article describes the use of radar, magnetic, and sonic/seismic remote […]

• February 14, 2009general, Remote Sensing

  CrunchGear talks Lidar

  The CrunchGear blog has a post regarding Boston College’s use of Lidar for mapping rivers and streams for fish repopulation. Nothing ground breaking technologically but it was interesting to see […]