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Monday, December 14th, 2015

Aero Kinetics Acquired by International Unmanned Aircraft System Company Strat Aero in Critical Industry Deal

Fort Worth, TX, December 14, 2015 — Aero Kinetics, the first company to file for FAA Type Certification for multi-rotor unmanned aircraft, announces a deal with Strat Aero US Holdings, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Strat Aero PLC (LSE: AERO). The acquisition of Aero Kinetics is valued at $24US million with incentives. The deal will

Monday, December 14th, 2015

ESSC Statement on Climate Change

December 14, 2015 — The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) supports the Article (2) agreement on climate change of the Declaration of the ‘2015 Budapest World Science Forum on the enabling power of science’ urges such a universal agreement aiming at stabilising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and reducing the amount of airborne particles. The

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Satlab Expands European and US Presence with Tomas Blaha, Lukasz Migda and Bob LeMoine Hires

Askim, Sweden – December 11, 2015 — Today the Swedish based Survey and GIS equipment maker; Satlab Geosolutions AB, announces the hire of several industry veterans in its expansion in Western Europe, Poland and the Americas.  

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Missile guiDance Technology Could Help Save Canada’s Last Intact Boreal Forests

SCOTLAND, December 11, 2015 — Earth observation big data analytics company Global Surface Intelligence (GSi) has harnessed its machine learning software – developed in part from missile guidance systems – to help protect the virgin forest of the indigenous Cree First Nation of Waswanipi people of Broadback Valley in Quebec.

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Air Pollutions Control Policies Effective in Improving Downwind Air Quality

FROSTBURG, MD, December 11, 2015 — Emissions controls on coal-fired power plants are making a difference in reducing exposure of mercury to people, especially in the western Maryland community. A study of air quality from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science found that levels of mercury in the air from power plant emissions

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Satellite Animation Shows Series of Storms Pummel Pacific Northwest

December 11, 2015 — An animation of satellite imagery over the course of 10 days shows a series of low pressure areas pummeling the Pacific Northwest. The video, created by the NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland combined visible and infrared imagery from NOAA’s GOES-West satellite.

Friday, December 11th, 2015

NCAR Develops Method to Predict Sea Ice Changes Years in Advance

December 11, 2015 — BOULDER – Climate scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) present evidence in a new study that they can predict whether the Arctic sea ice that forms in the winter will grow, shrink, or hold its own over the next several years.

Friday, December 11th, 2015

The Geography of Antarctica’s Underside

December 11, 2015 — Planetary scientists would be thrilled if they could peel the Earth like an orange and look at what lies beneath the thin crust. We live on the planet’s cold surface, but the Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually deformed, split, wrinkled and ruptured by the roiling of warmer

Friday, December 11th, 2015

German-French MERLIN mission at COP 21

On Tuesday 8 December at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference COP 21 in Paris, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the French space agency (CNES) met to reaffirm their commitment to jointly develop the MEthane Remote sensing LIdar missioN (Merlin) satellite that is set to measure concentrations of methane

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Sneak Preview: Maptitude 2016 is Faster & Easier to Use

December 11, 2015 — Maptitude 2016 is due out in the first quarter of 2016, and we are offering you an exclusive first look at some of the new features!