Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Within 24 hours of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, space agencies and companies around the world tasked satellites with providing free images of the earthquake’s aftermath. Experts quickly analyzed and interpreted images taken from space,...
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
A recently launched website aimed at passing down the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to future generations, using a 3-D digital satellite map, is gaining public attention, following a similar site on the Nagasaki atomic...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Krakatau (also known as Krakatoa), a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, has been intermittently active for the past several decades. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately...
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Specialist of the “Ecological Watch” N. Vorobyev says that an idea started up in this connection to develop a method of space monitoring of fishing rules compliance during salmon fishing season. Respective satellite images of the part of the...
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
The aim of the toolkit is to show managers, scientists and technicians working in marine, terrestrial and atmospheric environments how images collected from satellites and aircraft (remote sensing) can be used to map and monitor environmental features...
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The GeoEye-1 satellite has recently imaged the Port Moresby region over the last few months and obtained some remarkable, cloud free datasets. “Given the economic activity in this region and elsewhere in New Guinea, the interest in...
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
EyeFind provides you online viewing access to the complete RapidEye Archive of imagery collected since the start of RapidEye's commercial operations in February 2009. With EyeFind you can easily view all browse images collected by RapidEye satellites...
Monday, June 6th, 2011
he five-day technical training programme on the Asean Cooperation Project on Utilisation of Satellite Images for Disaster Management came to a close yesterday. The closing ceremony was held at the Information Communications Technology Centre of Universiti Brunei Darussalam...
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
As remotely sensed data becomes more and more ubiquitous, organizations are looking for ways to correctly use and manage this information. Lawrie Jordan, director of imagery for Esri asks organizations to discuss how they are improving access...
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Emirati engineers have completed the design for DubaiSat-2 at a satellite manufacturing plant in South Korea and are working on a flight model for the launch, which is expected at the end of next year from Russia. The...
