Monday, September 9th, 2013
A Lockheed Martin team has completed and passed the full range of environmental tests – electrical, mechanical and thermal – for the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument that will make crucial solar measurements when it flies on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite mission, known
Friday, September 6th, 2013
The amount of sunlight being absorbed or reflected by Earth is one of the driving forces for weather and climate. Satellites are providing this information with unprecedented accuracy. The reflecting power of a surface is known as ‘albedo’. Bright snow and ice have a high albedo, meaning they reflect solar radiation back into
Friday, September 6th, 2013
The specialists of ScanEx Research & Development Center conducted a pilot imagery of Moscow city on the night pass of the EROS B satellite, flying over the city at 2:30 am local time.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is heading into a busy conference season, exhibiting at five different tradeshows this fall.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Intergraph has released an updated SDK that will increase flexibility and performance for the industry-leading Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW) and ISO JPEG 2000 image compression formats.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Thousands of never-before-seen data products from the US Landsat satellites acquired over 30 years have been released for online access. In addition, the newest data over Europe from the latest satellite in the series, Landsat-8, are now accessible in near-real time through a new portal hosted by ESA.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
NOAA’s Office of Weather and Air Quality has funded seven multi-year proposals totaling $1.3 million this year for university partners and federal scientists to more rapidly and smoothly transfer new technology, research results, and observational advances through NOAA’s Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) to operational hurricane forecasting.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
On 10-12 September, CryoSat will be rolling left and right in orbit again to help continue its precise measurements of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica. This special operation follows the ones conducted at this same time last year.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Efforts to phase down the super greenhouse gas called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, received a boost today when the Climate & Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants agreed to “to work toward a phasedown in the production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol.”
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce the launch of a new UAV version of its Correlator3D™ product. With special pricing, this UAV version supports all non-metric small-format sensors. As an official sponsor of the UAV-g conference in Germany, SimActive will officially introduce Correlator3D™ UAV.
