On March 30, 2014, the outlook appeared grim for northwestern Madagascar. Tropical cyclone Hellen spun offshore, rapidly gaining strength with a track destined to bring it ashore.
Radar UAS Images Antarctic Glaciers
Researchers have tested a compact radar system integrated on a small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) to look through the ice and map the topography underlying rapidly moving glaciers.
Deal for Sentinel-5 Air Quality Sensor Inked
The €144 million contract for the Sentinel-5 instrument of Europe's Copernicus program was signed with Airbus Defence and Space on March 28, 2014, in Ottobrunn, Germany.
Parting the Sea to Save Venice
A massive engineering project aims to temporarily separate the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea when unusually high tides occur through a series of 78 gates that seal the lagoon's three inlets.
Pine Island Ice Retreat on the Radar
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.
