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.
Satellite Archaeologist Wins 2016 TED Prize
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.
Kathmandu University Students Learn to Use Drones for Disaster Response
Humanitarian UAV Network founder Patrick Meier led a weeklong UAV training mission in Nepal, teaching engineering students at Kathmandu University how to use drones and image-processing software for humanitarian and disaster-response scenarios.
ESA Offering Free Course on EO for Monitoring Climate Change
The European Space Agency (ESA) introduced a free online course, featuring scientists and experts from ESA and other European research centers, to educate people about the science behind Earth observation (EO), and how it can help detect and monitor global climate change.
CubeSat Competition Unveiled on White House Astronomy Night
Cornell University, The Museum of Science Fiction and NASA Space Grant consortia grantees are hosting a competition for high-school students to get CubeSat projects they develop launched into space.
Satellites Detect Speed of Greenland Ice Sheet
The Greenland ice sheet's flow toward the ocean is controlled by several factors, but how surface meltwater drains through the three-kilometer-thick sheet to the ground below and the effect this has on the speed of ice flow is poorly understood.
Satellite Data Helps Conserve Mexican Biodiversity
An international project lead by sustainability software and data firm Ecometrica and funded by the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Space Programme helped local organizations in Mexico secure funding of more than $1 million from the Global Environment Facility to support conservation of the El Ocote Biosphere Reserve in the state of Chiapas.
NGA Establishes Commercial GEOINT Strategy
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) introduced a commercial GEOINT strategy that outlines the agency's plans to deliver commercial geospatial intelligence products and services by leveraging greater persistence from its traditional as well as new and emerging GEOINT providers.
California's Future Likely Includes More Droughts and Floods
A study published in Nature Communications suggests that El Niño and La Niña weather patterns could lead to at least a doubling of extreme droughts and floods in California later this century. The study also predicts more-frequent extreme weather events.
NASA Satellites Track Historic Hurricane Patricia
Hurricane Patricia made landfall on Oct. 24, 2015, along the southwestern coast of Mexico. NASA's Aqua satellite captured Patricia making landfall, while the Global Precipitation Measurement mission core satellite added up Patricia's high rain totals, which exceeded more than 409 millimeters (16.1 inches) over open waters.
