Early in April 2013, Mount Etna in Sicily appeared whimsical, blowing smoke rings composed not of actual smoke, but of steam, volcanic gases and some volcanic ash. Then on April 18, the Advanced Land Imager on the Earth Observing-1 satellite observed additional activity.
Remote sensing specialists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been using a new sensor that relies on microwaves to peek under the blanket of white (clouds) and green (leaves).
There's an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments, according to experts at Europe's largest-ever space-debris conference.
The critical task of closely monitoring the saltiness of Earth's oceans is being facilitated from space by the European Space Agency's SMOS and NASA's Aquarius missions, but in slightly different ways.
New Zealand farmers rejoiced in mid-April 2013 when rains broke one of the worst droughts in decades. Images from NASA's Terra satellite compare drought conditions with a healthy landscape.
Picayune, Miss., April 16, 2013—Aerotec, a leader in topographic maps and models, was recently awarded U.S. Patent 8374431 for its Top-Gun Veg-tool. The technology is used by utility foresters to identify, locate, analyze, and report vegetation clearance...
RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, CANADA, April 22, 2013–Applanix, a world leader in products and solutions for mobile mapping and positioning, introduced today POSPac™ MMS V6.2, its latest generation of industry-leading software for directly georeferencing mobile mapping...
April 22, 2013—eMap International, an industry leader in the application of change detection and sight monitoring employing the latest high-resolution imaging satellites, state of the art imagery processing software and seasoned geospatial analysts, announces...
STERLING, Va., April 16, 2013—Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today the latest release of its ELT® geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) software, featuring a new intuitive and customizable user...
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada, April 22, 2013—PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it has released key technology in China to help its customers manage increasingly large...
