Skycatch, like Google's recently purchased satellite venture, is seeking ways to make high-resolution, easily accessible aerial imagery a part of how the everyday world works.
Citizen Scientists Take Control of Abandoned NASA Satellite
With NASA's blessing and following a successful crowd-funding campaign, a group of citizen scientists have taken control of an abandoned NASA satellite with plans to put it back to work.
GRACE Satellite Paints Bleak Groundwater Picture
Drought and wildfires are battering several U.S. regional economies, as residents and agricultural businesses move toward water restrictions. Part of this story of water woes lies underground.
Monitoring Water Quality Down Under
Former Copernicus Masters competition winner EOMAP launched a new Web-based application that provides daily maps of Australia's coastal water quality.
Satellites Track Aerosols to Smoky and Sandy Sources
Twenty years after developing instruments that could monitor Earth's ozone layer, scientists learned they could use the same observations to detect ultraviolet-absorbing aerosols in the air such as volcanic ash, dust and smoke.
Lifetime of Gravity Measurements Heralds New Beginning
Although the European Space Agency's GOCE satellite is no more, its measurements acquired during four years in orbit have been drawn together to offer new opportunities for science.
A Rash of Fires Invades Canada and the Pacific Northwest
On July 17, 2014, 102 uncontrolled fires were burning in British Columbia, along with 13 more in Alberta. Across the border, 33 uncontrolled fires were active in Washington and Oregon.
Washington State to Use Drones Against Wildfires
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources plans to test the use of a ScanEagle drone built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, to monitor wildfires this summer.
Live Earth Observation Streams from the Space Station?
An expanded Earth observation data stream, due to new state-of-the-art sensors aboard NASA's segment of the International Space Station, may lead to a live stream of Earth.
ESA Extends SMOS Mission to 2017
The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite delivers key scientific information on soil moisture and ocean salinity, plus its data are used for a growing number of practical applications.
