BEIJING, China, and BELLINGHAM, Wash., Nov. 5, 2014—The latest advances in remote sensing technologies and applications to monitor the Earth's atmosphere, water, and land were presented during SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, on 13-16 October. Sponsored by SPIE,...
swinglet CAM Used to Map Lava Flow in Hawaii
Oct. 30, 2014—On October 22nd, 2014, in a collaborative partnership with Hawaii County Civil Defense and the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the flight team from the UH Hilo Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization (SDAV) Laboratory used a...
Drones Monitor Malaria Outbreak
Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have been testing unmanned aircraft system technology to help track the spread of malaria in Southeast Asia.
Monitoring the Ebola Outbreak from Space
The global scare over increased infections of the Ebola virus has healthcare workers and epidemiologists actively working to understand and contain the disease.
Global Air Quality Under Scrutiny
Oct. 28, 2014—As part of the preparations for the Sentinel-5 Precursor air-quality monitoring mission, scientists teamed up in Romania recently to test different airborne systems that will be used to ensure this new satellite delivers accurate measurements of...
Innovative Land Stability Service for the Exploration Industry Wins Copernicus Masters
BERLIN, Oct. 24, 2014—The first Earth observation service for extensive and uninterrupted coverage of land stability monitoring and mapping with millimetre-precision has been named the winner of this year's Copernicus Masters competition. This year's overall...
Copernicus Sentinel-1 Makes Our Seas Safer
PARIS, Oct. 23, 2014—Within the first days of its operational life, the Sentinel-1A satellite has provided data for marine services in the Arctic. During the first week of the satellite’s operational data supply, experts from the Technical University of Denmark...
Measuring Landscape Disturbance of Gas Exploration in Eight Pennsylvania Counties
Landscape change in Pennsylvania's Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Potter, and Warren counties resulting from construction of well pads, new roads and pipelines for natural gas and coalbed methane development is being documented to help determine the...
A Minisatellite Takes on a Massive Mission
This 300-meter-resolution image from the European Space Agency's Proba-V minisatellite shows deforestation in the state of Rondônia in western Brazil.
Iceland’s Bardarbunga Volcano Continues Unabated
The lava outflow on the Holuhraun field northeast of Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano continues unabated. The lava field has grown to cover an area greater than 25 square kilometers.
