Remote Sensing

• February 28, 2008general, Remote Sensing

  New EROS director

  February has definitely been a month for me to play catch-up. I just came across an article from early Feb in the Argus Leader about the new EROS director Eric […]

• February 16, 2008general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  First US National Biomass and Carbon Datasets now available

  The Woods Hole Research Center has been working on the “National Biomass and Carbon Dataset for the year 2000 (NBCD2000) and have just released datasets from the first nine project […]

• January 18, 2008general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Landsat 5 imaging again!

  Our reader Michelle sent us a quick email to let us know that the USGS has announced that Landsat 5 resumed imaging as of January 10th. Landsat 5 has been […]

• January 16, 2008general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  High Resolution Images of Mercury

  The Messenger spacecraft is reporting back the first high resolution images of Mercury taken since the ’70’s. They’re over 3x better than anything we had before. The images are pretty […]

• January 6, 2008general, Remote Sensing

  Arirang 1 MIA

  Apparently Korea has lost contact with their Arirang 1 satellite which has been in orbit since 1999. Communications were lost one week ago (Dec 30) and they have been unable […]

• December 7, 2007general, Remote Sensing

  Commentary on geospatial intelligence and the NAO

  Although the National Applications Office, which we talked about a couple of months ago, has been put on hold for the time being, there are still lots of issues related […]

• December 3, 2007general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  China, Brazil partner to provide free remote sensing data for Africa

  At the 4th meeting of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) that was just held in Cape Town, South Africa, China and Brazil issued a joint statement announcing a plan […]

• November 15, 2007general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Pictures of Earth from Rosetta

  The European Space Agency’s comet satellite completed it’s second swing around Earth on the 13th of this month. The swing is necessary to gain speed for it’s deep space mission. […]

• October 30, 2007general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  Arctic Sea Ice Loss 1979-2007

  NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a video today showing visually the ice loss in the Arctic Sea from 1979-2007. The video is pretty impressive showing the degree of […]

• October 28, 2007general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Nice write-up On Landsat Data Continuity Mission

  On Thursday, NASA posted a nice short article on their Landsat mission website summarizing the planning for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. The planned launch is July 2011, and Ball […]