Sunny Skies Over Arctic Sea Ice

Sunny Skies Over Arctic Sea Ice

Clear skies allowed the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite to collect this largely unobstructed view of the Arctic in early July 2011.

Sunny Skies Over Antarctica

Sunny Skies Over Antarctica

Sunny skies and westerly winds prevailed over the Antarctic Peninsula on April 24, 2012. Cloudy weather had just moved out, and temperatures rose well above freezing as the MODIS sensor on NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead and captured a natural-color image.

Sundarbans Special from Many Viewpoints

Sundarbans Special from Many Viewpoints

The Sundarbans, comprising southern Bangladesh and a small part of the Indian state of west Bengal, include approximately 10,000 square kilometers of mangrove and swamp forests”the world's largest single chunk of tidal halophytic mangrove forest.

Summit Outlines Steps for a National Parcel System

Reston, VA - MAPPS, the association of private sector geospatial firms, announced its participation in a national summit to develop a strategy to establish a National Parcel System of interoperable land ownership data.   "Since the first National Research Council...

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