Canada's oil sands contain the world's second-biggest oil resource after Saudi Arabia. These Landsat 5 images illustrate mining expansion, as the area becomes a more profitable endeavor.
Small French Navy Ship Optimized for UAVs
While some large navies are still thinking of employing unmanned aerial vehicles on smaller craft, Austria’s Schiebel already is doing it with its Camcopter S-100.
Successful Chinese Launch Sets Record
Following its best-ever 16th successful launch this year, a Nigerian communications satellite and an Earth imaging satellite are next up on China’s launch manifest.
Unmanned Aircraft May Help Monitor 2012 Olympics
According to the U.K.'s The Independent, unmanned Earth observation drones equipped with surveillance cameras may fly across London's skies during next year’s Olympic Games.
ESA Opens Unique Landsat Archives
More than 30 years of unique archived data from Landsat Earth observation satellites now are available free of charge from the European Space Agency.
Thumbs up for NPP Satellite VIIRS Sensor
The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the largest instrument on board the new NPP Earth observation satellite, acquired its first measurements on Nov. 21, 2011.
How Should We Pay for Earth Observation Data?
Earth observation data have become a critical part of our lives, offering valuable information on climate change, pollution, security and a host of other applications”so what's a fair price?
Memory of the World Register Honors Landsat
Landsat's Multispectral Scanner archive of 652,000 Earth images joins the Gutenberg Bible and Tolstoy's personal library in UNESCO's effort to preserve documentary heritage around the world.
Lost Libyan Civilization Discovered from Space
Satellite and aerial imagery have uncovered new evidence of a lost Libyan civilization in the southwestern Sahara desert that will help rewrite the country's history.
Legendary Landsat 5 May Be Nearing Its End
U.S. Geological Survey has stopped acquiring images from the 27-year-old Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite due to a rapidly degrading electronic component.
