Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Irma across the Caribbean and Florida, and the earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Mexico have left communities grieving for lost relatives and in need of urgent support to rebuild the vital infrastructure of their towns and cities.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland in this false-color image captured on Aug., 16 2017.
Scientists are using satellite data to monitor the drought that has gripped Italy in 2017. Wildfires, water scarcity and billions of euros worth of damage to agriculture are just some of the effects of this summer's drought”not to mention the relentless heat.
For the first time in India, a state government is using satellites to assess lost crops so farmers can benefit from speedy insurance payouts.
Shiveluch, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, is seen poking through above a solid cloud deck, with an ash plume streaming to the west.
Insitu, FireWhat and Esri partnered to help aerial reconnaissance for fighting wildfires. Insitu's INEXA Solutions professional aerial remote-sensing services group will work with FireWhat's fire professionals, using its GIS customized for firefighters and hosted on Esri's ArcGIS platform.
On Aug. 2, 2017, Arianespace launched a Vega rocket carrying two Earth-observation satellites for Italy, France and Israel. It took 97 minutes to deliver the Optsat-3000 and Venμs satellites into their planned orbits.
The European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-V minisatellite recorded the seasonal changes in Africa's sub-Saharan Sahel, which stretches more than 5,000 kilometers across Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean (Senegal, Mauritania) to the Red Sea (Sudan).
On July 16, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of cyclonic rotation off the coast of Portugal.
On July 14, 2017, the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) successfully launched two Norwegian microsatellites developed and built by SFL for the Norwegian Space Centre with support from the Norwegian Coastal Authority, Space Norway and the European Space Agency.
