On Nov. 6, 2011, after more than a year of relative peace, the Nyamuragira volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo surged to life. Lava erupted spectacularly from a fissure low on one of the volcano’s flanks and spilled northward, away from populated areas. This NASA EO-1 image shows billowing, blue-tinged steam clouds rising above the superheated fissure and lava-bathed landscape.
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.
More than 30 years of unique archived data from Landsat Earth observation satellites now are available free of charge from the European Space Agency.
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.
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?
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.
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.
A nation long synonymous with big oil, United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become the land of the tallest skyscrapers, largest Starbucks and world's only artificial archipelago. UAE and surrounding nations are expected to spend an additional staggering $600 billion on construction projects by 2015. Nowhere is such growth more evident than the city of Dubai. This short video comprises WorldView-2 and QuickBird time-series satellite imagery to chronicle Dubai's remarkable transformation.
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.
Underscoring the informative power of time-series satellite imagery, these striking images chronicle the withering of Iran's Lake Orumiyeh, one of the world's largest landlocked salt lakes.
