Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Earth observation is the science of modeling and monitoring of the processes on the surface of the planet and their interaction with the Earth’s atmosphere. The planet is constantly monitored using state-of-the-art radar and optical sensors. The...
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Jointly organised by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the DLR German Aerospace Center and ESA, the 2012 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is scheduled to be held 22–27 July in Munich, Germany. IGARSS...
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Higher commodity prices are resulting in higher bottom lines for many agricultural producers today. Productive agricultural land is no longer readily available, and a growing global population increasingly depends upon technological innovation to meet consumer needs. As...
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Until not too long ago, Government of India and the sugar industry manually estimated the area under sugarcane cultivation. This system involved the collection of estimates from the field and the compilation of data. That system had...
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Pléiades 1A returns its first images 3 days after being placed in orbit by a Soyuz launch vehicle on December 17, 2011. Several extracts are now available to the public. Extracts of the first images acquired by the Pléiades...
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Furthering Europe’s capacity to monitor atmospheric pollution, ESA has awarded a contract worth €45.5 million to Astrium UK to act as prime contractor for the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite system.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
RapidEye announced today that it has signed a contract with China’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) to cover almost five million square kilometers of China over the next few months. This is the third consecutive year that RapidEye was a...
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
China successfully launched a remote-sensing satellite on Wednesday that it says will be used to conduct scientific experiments, carry out surveys on land resources, monitor crop yields and help with natural disaster prevention and response. Called Yaogan XIII,...
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
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...
