Merrick & Company was recently honored by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado (ACEC Colorado) at its annual Engineering Excellence Awards competition, which recognizes engineering projects that demonstrate a high degree of ingenuity and include significant technical, economic and/or social advancements.
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to track the health of the world's vegetation by detecting and measuring the faint glow that plants give off as they convert sunlight and the atmosphere's carbon dioxide into energy.
As a reminder that spring is relative depending on Earth's hemisphere, phytoplankton blooms, which were especially troublesome in the northern hemisphere's 2015 spring, have now been spotted via satellite in the southern hemisphere's spring.
According to a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), large tundra fires cause top-down permafrost thaw, playing a major role in altering Arctic landscapes.
Scientists studying Greenland's glaciers used satellite observations and aerial survey measurements from a wide variety of space agencies, including ESA, the Canadian Space Agency, NASA, the German Aerospace Center, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Italy's ASI.
An international group of hydrologists produced the first data-driven estimate of Earth's total supply of groundwater.
On Nov. 4, 2015, Hungary became the 22nd Member State of the European Space Agency (ESA).
Sentinel-2A, which has been in orbit since June 2105, captured this false-color image of Qingdao, China.
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) partnered with Riverside Research to create the Ken Miller Scholarship for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications, which will be awarded for the first of three times in fall 2016.
Sarah Parcak, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and founder of the Laboratory for Global Observation, won the $1 million TED Prize grant, given annually to a bold leader with a wish to spark global change.
