The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) supports the Article (2) agreement on climate change of the Declaration of the '2015 Budapest World Science Forum on the enabling power of science' urges such a universal agreement aiming at stabilising atmospheric...
Satlab Expands European and US Presence with Tomas Blaha, Lukasz Migda and Bob LeMoine Hires
Askim, Sweden – December 10 th, 2015 — Today the Swedish based Survey and GIS equipment maker; Satlab Geosolutions AB, announces the hire of several industry veterans in its expansion in Western Europe, Poland and the Americas. Tomas Blaha will be responsible for...
Missile guiDance Technology Could Help Save Canada’s Last Intact Boreal Forests
SCOTLAND, December 11, 2015 — Earth observation big data analytics company Global Surface Intelligence (GSi) has harnessed its machine learning software - developed in part from missile guidance systems - to help protect the virgin forest of the indigenous Cree...
Air Pollutions Control Policies Effective in Improving Downwind Air Quality
FROSTBURG, MD, December 11, 2015 — Emissions controls on coal-fired power plants are making a difference in reducing exposure of mercury to people, especially in the western Maryland community. A study of air quality from the University of Maryland Center for...
Satellite Animation Shows Series of Storms Pummel Pacific Northwest
December 11, 2015 — An animation of satellite imagery over the course of 10 days shows a series of low pressure areas pummeling the Pacific Northwest. The video, created by the NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland...
NCAR Develops Method to Predict Sea Ice Changes Years in Advance
December 11, 2015 — BOULDER – Climate scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) present evidence in a new study that they can predict whether the Arctic sea ice that forms in the winter will grow, shrink, or hold its own over the next...
The Geography of Antarctica's Underside
December 11, 2015 — Planetary scientists would be thrilled if they could peel the Earth like an orange and look at what lies beneath the thin crust. We live on the planet’s cold surface, but the Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually deformed,...
German-French MERLIN mission at COP 21
On Tuesday 8 December at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference COP 21 in Paris, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the French space agency (CNES) met to reaffirm their commitment to jointly develop the MEthane Remote...
Sneak Preview: Maptitude 2016 is Faster & Easier to Use
December 11, 2015 — Maptitude 2016 is due out in the first quarter of 2016, and we are offering you an exclusive first look at some of the new features! Maptitude 2016 provides the business value you expect when investing in mapping software with the most up-to-date...
imajing Mobile Mapping Solutions Deployed in Russia to Serve the State Budgetary Institution of Moscow City Roads
December 10, 2015 — The State Budgetary Institution of Moscow City "Roads" is one of the leading organizations of road and communal services in Moscow City. It was created in 2011 by order of the Government of Moscow, and is now responsible of the complete...
