Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The European Union's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme has recently concluded their GMES Ideas Challenge, which awards prizes to the best applications for new uses of earth observation images. The overall winner of this...
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
The break-up of a stranded cargo ship on the Astrolabe Reef in New Zealand has triggered the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters. With cracks appearing the hull, and an estimate 1,900 tonnes of oil and...
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the Megha-Tropiques satellite, along with three micro satellites, aboard their Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle today. The Megha-Tropiques earth observation satellite is an Indo-French Joint Satellite Mission that will study...
Friday, October 7th, 2011
The Perth, Australia office of international professional and environmental services firm AECOM has developed an new tool to assess the risks to critical marine habitats from development. HabiMAP provides new survey techniques to map and assess animals,...
Friday, September 30th, 2011
The Malaysian government has made a five-year and RM200 million (US$66 million) commitment to extend their RazakSAT earth observation satellite program that began with the launch of RazakSATE-1 on July 14, 2009. The Ministry of Science, Technology...
