July 6, 2011
The U.S. Air Force has contracted Raytheon to produce the first airborne tactical Earth imaging hyperspectral sensor system.
June 27, 2011
Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods … Since last December, the weather in the United States has been positively wild. But why? A NASA climatologist points a finger at the disappearance of La Niña.
June 27, 2011
University of Florida researcher Reza Ehsani and others are using a miniature unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to view crops from above, giving farmers a promising, inexpensive way to obtain much-needed clues about what’s really happening between the leaves and branches.
June 27, 2011
If all goes well, Spain will become the first European country to have a dual Earth observation system—radar and optical—for both civilian and military use.
June 27, 2011
A group of 27 scientists has joined the 50-person dig team at the Ice Age fossil site near Snowmass Village, Colo. With only a week left in the dig at Ziegler Reservoir, the fossil excavation is accelerating to its completion.
June 27, 2011
During the last two years the European Space Agency has funded a project that aims to establish a service concept based on satellite Earth observation technologies capable of monitoring carbon dioxide capture and storage facilities.
June 27, 2011
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency continues to pursue better ways to make imagery more readily available to the warfighter, including tapping into cloud computing. Which hand-held devices could benefit from this trend?
June 20, 2011
North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) now requires transmission line owners to document the condition of their assets. Merrick & Company says its helicopter-mounted LiDAR is speedier and more cost effective than fixed-wing aircraft for this highly specialized task.
June 20, 2011
City University of New York has compiled a 3-D city model with LiDAR data collected by Colorado Springs-based Sanborn to estimate the amount of solar energy that falls on each square meter of New York’s five boroughs and determine the solar energy potential for every building citywide.
June 20, 2011
Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the Chilean Volcano Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and tracked its ash plume around the world. The NASA Goddard FLICKR image gallery shows the progression of the plume around the southern hemisphere.
