Several of the oldest cities of northwestern Europe are highlighted in this astronaut photograph acquired just after midnight on Aug. 10, 2011. While the landscape is dotted with light clusters from individual urban areas, the metropolitan areas of London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam appear much brighter because of their large light footprints.
An assortment of images from NASA, NOAA and DigitalGlobe provide examples of the different types of Earth imagery employed to track hurricanes and monitor the damage left behind.
Here's a comprehensive look at Bab al-Azizia, Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's heavily fortified Tripoli sanctuary, in a series of GeoEye-1 satellite images”includes expert commentary by IHS Jane's Allison Puccioni.
Next year the company plans to launch the first of what it hopes will be a constellation of 12 to 24 smallsats capable of acquiring high-resolution images of Earth.
Paris-based EuroConsult estimates 1,145 satellites, with a value of nearly $200 billion, will be built for launch during the next 10 years, representing a 51 percent increase from the previous decade.
Natural climate cycles seem to have a striking influence on war and peace around the equator. Tropical countries face double the risk of armed conflict and civil war breaking out during warm, dry El Niño years than during cooler La Niña years, according to an analysis published in Nature.
The company yesterday introduced its lightweight backpack-sized Shrike vertical take off and landing unmanned aircraft system.
A massive bloom of phytoplankton creates brilliant shades of blues and greens that explode across the Barents Sea”a rare Earth observation treat because the Barents Sea is obscured by cloud cover roughly 80 percent of the time during summer.
On Aug. 17, 2011, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited successfully launched the
NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites, which will provide Nigeria with the ability to enhance food security through monthly crop monitoring.
On Aug. 18, 2011, The Express Tribune reported that the city of Badin in Pakistan's Sindh Province had disappeared under five feet of flood water.
