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China Launches Earth Observation Satellite Gaofen-13 02 for Remote Sensing
China on Friday sent a new Earth observation satellite...
ISRO to conduct young scientist programme in Bengaluru
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is organising a...
Egypt launches second remote-sensing satellite from China
The Egyptian Space Agency’s CEO, Sherif Sedky, announced the...
Israeli-developed DRONE DOME to secure Dubai from aerial attacks
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. is supplying the system...
China launches 2nd Horus remote-sensing satellite for Egypt (video)
China has launched a second remote-sensing satellite for Egypt,...
China obstructs new subsea cable to Taiwan
Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 connecting Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong,...
Scientific collaboration between China and US key to tackling climate change, experts say
Efforts to combat climate change bore the brunt of...
ISRO Receives India-US Jointly Built NISAR Earth Observation Satellite, Begins Preparations For Launch
US space agency NASA has handed over NISAR earth...
ISRO conducts parachute deployment tests on rail tracks for Gaganyaan Mission
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has conducted Rail Track...
OceanX helps Riyadh boost best up-and-comers in GEOINT
The Saudi Space Commission has given OceanX the difficult...

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Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Iran Plans ‘Islamic Google Earth’

The Iranian authorities have long accused Google Earth of being a tool for western spy agencies, but now they have taken their attacks on the 3D mapping service one step further – by planning the launch of...

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Queensland Government Uses Google Earth to Push Investment

New technology will allow Queenslanders to access property, development, education and tourism data through Google Earth. Premier Campbell Newman on Wednesday launched the free Queensland Globe computer program as part of his government's Open Data push. Information...

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

Exploring the East Japan Earthquake Archive

"The East Japan Earthquake Archive"provides a digital map-based archive for visualizing  and telling the real state of the damage situation of the East Japan Earthquake using Google Earth. Since data such as photographs, panorama pictures and disaster victims'...

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

Google Earth Reveals North Korean Labor Camps

There’s no button on Google Earth for “Show Concentration Camps,” which is probably a good thing for North Korea given that human rights activists are now using Google Earth precisely to show where North Korea has their...

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Huge Scale Model of Disputed Border Region of China

This is one of the most interesting finds in Google Earth in quite some time. A few weeks ago a first time poster, called KenGrok, at the Google Earth Community (GEC) discovered a very exact scale model of some...

Friday, November 9th, 2012

CSIRO and Google Partner for Earth Watch

Australian scientists and non-profits will use Google Earth to save the Earth under several environment-focused partnerships with Google announced this week. Google yesterday announced it is bring its Google Earth Outreach program to Australia and New Zealand. Researchers...

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

SAIC Launches GRGlobe

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced the release of the GRGlobe™ application, a new commercial software solution to create, edit, and visualize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data natively in a Google Earth environment. GRGlobe...

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

Helping Map the Future

It's a day he will never forget. 13-year-old Salim Shekh still recalls how disappointed he felt when he searched for his neighbourhood on Google maps and realized that it didn't exist. Though the Rishi Aurobindo colony in...

Saturday, August 11th, 2012

Tokyo Professor Creates Digital Maps of A-bombed Cities

A new website uses Google Earth technology combined with historical photographs and personal testimonies for a neighborhood-by-neighborhood view of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the closing days of World War II. Developed by Hidenori Watanabe, the...

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Google to Monitor Fishing in Icelandic Waters?

A delegation from the internet giant Google is expected to come to Iceland in the next two to three months to learn about an Icelandic IT system used to monitor fishing. The possibility to link it to...

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