Monday, April 28th, 2014
The Delhi government has now decided to use satellite images to check illegal construction in Sainik Farms, an upmarket unauthorised colony. Sources at Geospatial Delhi Limited said the Urban Development department has asked them for satellite images...
Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
A French satellite scanning the Indian Ocean for remnants of the missing jetliner found a possible plane debris field containing 122 objects. A top Malaysian official called it “the most credible lead that we have.”
Monday, March 24th, 2014
Tesso Nilo is purple. More than half of this 167,000 hectare forest in Riau province, Sumatra, has a reddish hue on the digital map. Purple denotes forest loss. Blue indicates forest gain. The satellite-aided image delivered in...
Sunday, March 23rd, 2014
Recent satellite imagery reveals that nearly 2,500 hectares of land have been destroyed by forest fires at Bandipur and Nagarahole National Parks since they began over a week ago on March 13. An additional 450 hectares have...
Monday, March 17th, 2014
The odds of quickly resolving the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 via either satellite imagery or related data remain long if not impossible, say analysts. Although China released a blurry image of what it initially said...
Monday, March 17th, 2014
The Forest Department will use satellite imagery to ascertain the devastation wreaked by forest fires. It is estimated that around 1,000 acres destroyed in Bandipur, while around 200 acres was lost on the fringes of Nagarahole in...
Sunday, March 16th, 2014
The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has signed a contract with Satrec Initiative, a leading provider of integrated and customized solutions for Earth observation missions, for global promotion and distribution of Dubai Sat-2’s products...
Friday, March 14th, 2014
Using the latest crowdsourcing techniques for satellite image interpretation they will be able to join volunteers across the globe in the search for the missing aircraft. Geography students at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) have...
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
The ongoing search for the lost Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has raised the profile of satellite imagery and the power of the crowd to help in imagery analysis. The tragedy is coupled with mystery as there is...
