Twenty years of radar coverage from European Space Agency satellites have been used to measure the rapid thinning of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, and it's losing more ice than previously thought.
First Global Precipitation Mission Images Released
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency released the first images from their new Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory.
U.K. Satellite Firm's Innovation Tracks Flight 370
Inmarsat used the Doppler effect”a transmission's frequency change due to the movement of a satellite or aircraft”as the basis for a method of modeling Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's final flight path.
ESA Sentinel-1A Radar Satellite to Launch Next Week
Europe's first Copernicus Program satellite is set to launch April 3. The European Space Agency (ESA) is demonstrating how its advanced radar will map ice, monitor subsidence and more.
Satellite Images Aid Lower Colorado River Restoration Efforts
Satellite imagery plays a key role in monitoring the effects of a type of controlled flooding called pulse flow in an attempt to reinvigorate the lower Colorado River ecosystem.
Using a Drone to Hunt Big Game? Not in Alaska!
At its March 14-18 meeting in Anchorage, the seven-member Alaska Board of Game approved a measure to prohibit hunters from spotting game with unmanned aircraft systems.
NASA's Operation IceBridge Begins New Arctic Campaign
Researchers aboard NASA’s P-3 research aircraft left the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea ice.
Harvesting Sunlight on the Playa
On Dec. 25, 2013, the Operational Land Imager on NASA's Landsat 8 satellite acquired this natural-color image of Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California.
Army at Tipping Point of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
“We’re on the tipping point of unmanned aerial systems’ ability to deliver capability to the soldier,” said Col. Thomas von Eschenbach.
Bolivia Experiences Excessive Flooding
Residents of Bolivia's low-lying Beni region are accustomed to flooding, but the floods Bolivians faced in February 2014 were unusually severe.
