Originally Published by IEEE – Three years ago, a tsunami came crashing down on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, leading to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. As Associate Editor Eliza Strickland explains in this issue in “Dismantling Fukushima: The World’s Toughest Demolition Project,” that accident still reverberates strongly in Japan, where all of the country’s nuclear plants are currently off line.
A joint mission between NASA and Japan’s space agency, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, will for the first time provide near real-time information about rain and snow around the globe.
The fourth-annual IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) will take place 10-13 October 2014 in Silicon Valley, California.
SERVIR continues to put resources into the hands of local experts through its newest partnership with regional Himalaya development organization ICIMOD. With supplemental resources from SERVIR, ICIMOD has increased capacity in its member states and developed a forest fire monitoring system based on satellite data.
Originally Published by EarthSky – The most brilliant celestial objects of nighttime – the waning crescent moon and planet Venus – grace the predawn and dawn hours on February 25, 2014. These worlds are so wondrously bright and beautiful that you can easily see them in the glare of morning twilight – or possibly, even after sunrise.
Originally Published by NASA- The big show’s opening night is also it’s closing night. This will be a command performance, a one-time-only show of epic proportions attended by senior staff from two proud space-faring agencies. But like all command performances, leaders may have privileged seats but it’s the vast throng of commoners who’s interest make events memorable. Those groundlings are all of us. For a mission focused on global rainfall, the GPM launch is a show for all the people of Earth.
Originally Published by NASWG- A society’s response to natural disasters may depend more on social factors than resource accumulation, according to new archaeological studies on ancient societies.
Forecasters warn of more cold, storms and heavy winds, but it hasn’t been a season for the record books.
Is Earth observation data useful when it comes in messages limited to 140 characters? Hundreds of organizations apparently think so. Here’s a list of essential EO Twitter streams to follow.
Originally Published by Google Blog – While Google Earth has powerful capabilities for getting things done, sometimes it’s just fun to browse around and look at cool stuff. The folks at TwistedSifter just did that, and released a list of 50 amazing finds on Google Earth. While many of them may be familiar to regular readers of Google Earth Blog, there were a few new pieces in there.
