The crew aboard the Dagmar Aaen, a research ship traveling around the Antarctic Peninsula to investigate how climate change is impacting the local environment, is receiving high-resolution radar images from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to help navigate the icy waters.
With approximately 80,000 inhabitants, La Rochelle, France, is a city and seaport on the Atlantic Ocean's Bay of Biscay, connected to the Île de Ré by a 2.9-kilometer bridge that's visible in the center of this image captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2A satellite.
On Feb. 16, 2016, the European Space Agency's much-anticipated Sentinel-3A satellite was successfully launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is accepting nominations for its 2016 Awards and Scholarship programs.
A NASA satellite captured a stunning image of winter's effects on the Sea of Okhotsk, which is part of the western Pacific Ocean surrounded by mostly Russian territory as well as the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
On Feb. 2, 2016, a robotic arm aboard the International Space Station deployed a pair of satellites built by students at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas.
According to a report recently published in Nature Climate Change, satellite data is helping to reveal that there's a critical point where Antarctica's huge ice shelves act as a safety band, holding back the ice that flows to the sea.
The European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-V minisatellite recorded the drying up of Lake Poopó, the second-largest lake in Bolivia.
The annual Earth Imaging Journal polling of its Editorial Advisory Board and industry experts typically asks the same overarching question to everyone. That's possible when one dominant theme or trend becomes obvious, but Earth imaging is seeing a remarkable period of innovation and disruption, including the rise of unmanned aircraft systems, smallsats, phenomenal growth in the number of commercial imagery providers, cloud computing and Big Data analytics, and more.
The annual Earth Imaging Journal polling of its Editorial Advisory Board and industry experts typically asks the same overarching question to everyone. That's possible when one dominant theme or trend becomes obvious, but Earth imaging is seeing a remarkable period of innovation and disruption, including the rise of unmanned aircraft systems, smallsats, phenomenal growth in the number of commercial imagery providers, cloud computing and Big Data analytics, and more.
