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New 3D Detection Method for Detecting Atmospheric Rivers in Antarctica
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Uttar Pradesh Govt launches Special Land Measurement Campaign
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Japan Eyes Sovereign D2D Satellite Network
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Features

Monday, February 23rd, 2026

River Deltas at Risk: Chao Phraya, Mekong and Yellow River 

Using a decade of satellite radar observations from Copernicus Sentinel-1, researchers mapped surface elevation changes across 40 major river deltas worldwide. The study found that more than half of the deltas studied are subsiding at rates faster than...

Monday, February 9th, 2026

NOAA To Map Critical Mineral Deposits in Deep Waters off American Samoa 

NOAA’s National Ocean Service announced a new hydrographic survey project to map and characterize more than 30,000 square nautical miles of federal waters off American Samoa. This project is part of the Department of Commerce's implementation of...

Monday, January 26th, 2026

Snow Buries Kamchatka 

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has been among the areas hit hard by cold and snowy weather in December 2025 and January 2026. More than 2 meters (7 feet) of snow fell in the first two weeks of January, following 3.7...

Monday, January 12th, 2026

Ganges Delta Under a Winter Shroud of Fog 

Winter weather took hold across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in early January 2026, bringing dense fog and cold temperatures to much of the flat, fertile lands that span from Pakistan and northern India to Bangladesh.  This image shows...

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025

New Timing for Stubble Burning in India 

Every year for decades, long rivers of smoke and haze have spread across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in northern India from October to December. That's when farmers in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and other states burn off plant "stubble" after...

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Flooding in Sri Lanka 

Puttalam district in North Western Sri Lanka is currently facing severe flooding, landslides and rockfalls, caused by heavy monsoon rains across the region. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured an image over the region on Nov. 30, 2025...

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025

MapmyIndia to Develop National Geospatial Platform for Survey of India 

CE Info Systems Limited (MapmyIndia) won a contract by the Survey of India to create a unified digital infrastructure for aggregating, harmonizing and disseminating authentic geospatial data and services. This indigenous technology-based platform will support various sectors,...

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025

Expedition on E/V Nautilus to Explore Deep Waters of the Cook Islands 

Located in the South-Central Pacific, the Cook Islands is comprised of 15 islands surrounded by more than 770,000 square miles of ocean, the vast majority of which remain unmapped and unexplored.  During the expedition, mapping, telepresence and...

Sunday, October 12th, 2025

Cyclone Errol Seen Approaching Australia 

On April 16, 2025, when this image was acquired by Copernicus Sentinel-3’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument, Cyclone Errol reached its peak intensity with wind gusts of 285 km/h. The typical pinhole eye—a small, well-defined eye often...

Friday, September 26th, 2025

Typhoon Ragasa Seen from Space 

Captured on Sept. 24, 2025, by EUMETSAT’s MetOp-B satellite, this image shows Typhoon Ragasa swirling south of Hong Kong. Days earlier, Ragasa struck the northern Philippines with winds reaching 295 km/h, causing evacuations, power cuts and widespread...

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