Sentinel-1B Will Complete Europe’s Radar Vision

Pre-launch preparations for the Sentinel-1B satellite, carrying an Airbus Defence and Space built radar instrument, are in full swing at Europe´s Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite, which has Thales Alenia Space Italy as prime contractor, is set to be...

Images Show How Boulder Fire Opened the Floodgates

Images Show How Boulder Fire Opened the Floodgates

Residents west of Boulder, Colo., had to evacuate last September during the Fourmile Canyon fire. As they returned to their homes, the U.S. Geological Survey cautioned that the scorched surroundings now had become ripe for flooding. The floods”and another evacuation”came on July 13, 2011.

Potree Puts Big and Beautiful LiDAR in Your Browser

September 14, 2015 — Just in time for INTERGEO 2015, the Potree software was released in its latest 1.3 version. Potree is a WebGL based point cloud viewer for very large datasets. The Potree software allows to publish large LiDAR point clouds on the Web such that...

GAF Operationally Provides Ocean Colour Data to ESA

Neustrelitz, Germany -  After signing respective agreements with ESA and Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, GAF as the prime contractor in cooperation with DLR has upgraded the ground station in Neustrelitz to accommodate the reception of data from the Ocean Colour...

Topographic Lidar Data Employed to Map, Preserve U.S. History

Topographic Lidar Data Employed to Map, Preserve U.S. History

In August 2015, the National Park Service (NPS) contracted Woolpert for the Little Bighorn National Monument Mapping Project to record the locations of thousands of headstone markers at the Custer National Cemetery as well as hundreds of battlefield markers at the Little Bighorn National Monument site, which covers approximately 5.5 square miles.

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