Penn State Offers Online Earth-Observation Education

Penn State Offers Online Earth-Observation Education

The Department of Geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University continues to lead academically in geospatial sciences through its Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Program and its Online Geospatial Education Program Office.

NASA's CYGNSS Constellation Enters Science Operations Phase

NASA's CYGNSS Constellation Enters Science Operations Phase

NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), a constellation of eight microsatellites that will take detailed measurement of wind speeds inside hurricanes, successfully completed the development and on-orbit commissioning phases of its mission and moved into the science operations phase.

Monitoring Grasslands for Agricultural Subsidies

Monitoring Grasslands for Agricultural Subsidies

Grasslands cover approximately 37 percent of Earth's land surface when calculated with shrub-lands and savannas. In Western Europe, grasslands comprise 40 percent of agricultural land. And now European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel satellites are being used to detect and better evaluate management practices of grasslands in Estonia.

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