Remote Sensing
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general, 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 […]
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general, 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 […]
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general, 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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general, 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 […]
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general, 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. […]
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general, 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 […]
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general, 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 […]
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India to try real-time crop monitoring
I have been trying to catch up on everything that’s been going on while I spent a week writing my PhD comps, and I ran across a short article about […]
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