Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
NEWTON MA (USA) - The Applied Geography Conferences (AGC) annual conference will be held October 31 through November 2, 2018, at Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center (Kent, Ohio). AGC exists to promote the application of...
Monday, May 14th, 2018
The Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed that one of its institutes has successfully tracked and received the data from the recently launched Gaofen-5, a the hyperspectral imaging satellite. Read More at Xinhuanet
Monday, May 14th, 2018
India’s premier space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a reputation for building homegrown Indian space technologies in a most cost-effective way, so much so that India’s Mars Orbiter Mission craft Mangalyaan costed less than...
Monday, May 14th, 2018
Almost 30 years’ worth of Landsat observations created a comprehensive inventory of catastrophic floods caused by glacial lakes bursting through their rock dams. Read More at EOS
Monday, May 14th, 2018
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Delhi government if it could use the funds collected from the Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) to purchase remote-sensing machines to detect pollution emitted from diesel vehicles plying on the roads....
Monday, May 14th, 2018
The Australian government has announced inaugural seed funding of AUS$26 million over four years to establish an Australian Space Agency, as part of a larger AUS$41 million investment in space-related funding. Read More at SpaceWatch
Monday, May 14th, 2018
China on Wednesday launched Gaofen-5, a hyperspectral imaging satellite, as part of the country's high-resolution Earth observation project. Read More at Belarus News
Monday, May 14th, 2018
The Indian geospatial economy value is INR 20,629 crore (100 crore is 1 billion; $3.07 billion) and it employs over 250,000 people across the country. Of this, the domestic market is estimated at INR 7,670 crore ($1.14...
Monday, May 14th, 2018
An underground test of what was claimed by North Korea to be a hydrogen bomb shook the surrounding landscape so violently, it changed the shape of an entire mountain. Read More at Science Alert
Monday, May 14th, 2018
Operation IceBridge, NASA's longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice change, concluded this year's springtime survey of Arctic sea and land ice on May 2. The flights, which began on March 22, covered the western basin of...
