Friday, December 11th, 2015
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
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Researchers investigating global issues now have an easy method for finding and using earth science data through a new technology developed by the Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE. Understanding broad and complex environmental issues, for example climate change, increasingly relies on the discovery and analysis of massive datasets. But the amount of collected
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Very high resolution satellite images, acquired by OrbView-3 satellite in 2003-2007, have been posted in free access. This was announced at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on January 9, 2012. More than 180 000 scenes with the resolution of 1 meter (pan) and 4 meters (multispectral) of the territory of different Earth areas are now
