Thursday, September 12th, 2013
In keeping with rapid demand, the USGS has posted new US Topo quadrangles covering Colorado (1,794 maps) and Minnesota (1,689). These new quads replace the first edition US Topo maps for those states. The replaced maps will be added to the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection and are also available for free download from The
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
General Director of ScanEx RDCVladimir Gershenzon will take part in the 5th Summit on Earth Observation Business, which is to take place on September 12-13 in Paris within as part of the World Satellite Business Week organized by Euroconsult.
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the competitive design phase of CHEOPS science satellite, which will improve mankind’s understanding of exoplanets – planets orbiting distant stars outside our solar system. The contractor selection for the implementation phase is planned by mid-2014 and the launch is scheduled
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
Offering new insights into our fragile polar regions, ESA’s CryoSat mission has provided three consecutive years of Arctic sea-ice thickness measurements, which show that the ice continues to thin. Although satellites have witnessed a downward trend in the extent of sea ice over the last two decades, it is essential to have accurate information on
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
The people of Muscatine, Iowa, enjoy the beauty and the power of the Mississippi River, but they live in fear of floods. It’s only a matter of time before devastating floods, like those in 1993 and 2008 in eastern Iowa and 2011 in western Iowa, strike again, according to experts at the University of Iowa’s
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Avenza Systems Inc., the leading developer of cartographic software –such as MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop — announced the launch of PDF Maps app 2.0 for iOS devices. Unique to the space, the enhanced version incorporates suggestions from consumers that currently use the first and only geospatial PDF
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
A fleet of underwater robots is descending into waters off the east coast to collect data that could help improve storm intensity forecasts during future hurricane seasons. Several regions of the NOAA-led U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) are partnering to deploy 12 to 16 autonomous underwater robotic vehicles, also known as gliders, from Nova
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration has launched a new online mapping tool for the Great Lakes that will give decision makers, resource managers, and environmental responders better information as they clean up hazardous materials and restore the coastal and estuarine environments.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
With a catalogue of triumphs that range from delivering novel information about winds at the edge of the atmosphere to mapping the structure of Earth’s crust 200 km below our feet, ESA’s GOCE satellite is in the limelight at this week’s Living Planet Symposium. Carrying the first 3D gravity gradiometer in space and orbiting lower
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Lena Halounová, Chairperson of the Czech Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, to take part in the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions.” Lena Halounová is one of the leading specialists in the field of remote sensing, GIS and cartography representing achievements of the Czech school in these spheres in
