The recent crash of a ConocoPhillips unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in Arctic airspace underscores the fact that flying a UAS can be more complicated than it appears.
Life Reclaims Mount St. Helens
Comparing current satellite images with images from nearly 30 years ago show a striking example of how life literally can rise from the ashes and re-colonize a patch of land.
Early Great Plains Blizzard Causes Cattle Disaster
Between Oct. 3“5, 2013, an unusually early blizzard smothered northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota with wet, heavy snow, killing tens of thousands of cattle.
Unmanned Aircraft Eye Coral Reefs
Stanford University researchers are hoping to gain new insights into climate change effects on important ecosystems: centuries-old living coral reefs that remain unmapped and unmeasured.
Magnetic Field Mission Fueled for Launch
With launch just a month away, European Space Agency engineers begin the delicate task of attaching three identical Swarm satellites onto a rocket for simultaneous release into orbit.
NASA Boosts Focus on Unmanned Aircraft
NASA has been making trips to outer space for decades. Now the agency increasingly is focusing closer to Earth, exploring the value of unmanned aircraft systems.
GEOINT Symposium Tentatively Rescheduled
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation announced it intends to roll all contracts over for an April 14-17, 2014, GEOINT Symposium in Tampa.
Satellite Imagery Busts Tanker in Pollution Case
In a landmark hearing in the United Kingdom, the owner of a tanker that polluted the sea off Land's End has been prosecuted using satellite images.
Herding from Space
Satellites observe defined lines of nomadic pastoralism in one of the world's poorest countries to ensure food security and support small-scale rural producers.
Satellite Imagery Educates South African Students
The South African National Space Agency is debuting satellite imagery tools that aim to launch school children “into the world of geospatial information.”
