Satellite images can be wonderfully useful for natural resource management and many other applications. Images taken at different times are particularly useful because they can reveal – and visually document – how the world has changed, facilitating a response as well as providing a useful tool for future planning.
Scientists have recently found black gold bubbling up from an otherwise undistinguished mass of ocean imagery.
This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on February 23, 2009, shows widespread fires across Southeast Asia. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine website, but is no longer reproduced here. Hope you enjoy the article at the original source).
A fault after launch appears to have scuppered an unmanned $280m Nasa mission to map global sources of carbon dioxide.
Billions of euros in sensitive equipment are orbiting Earth. And so is an increasing amount of dangerous debris. The European Space Agency is launching a concerted, and expensive, program to help keep track of space junk.
The IEEE Committee on Earth Observation (ICEO) has launched its “SaveEarthGame” competition, two international computer game design contests – with the top prize of $20,000 USD – that challenge participants to demonstrate how real-world events affect the Earth and impact people.
This study attempts to derive Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for gullies at Ode-Irele, Lipanu, Akotogbo and Ajagba town in Irele Local Government Area (LGA) of Ondo-State, Nigeria. Gully morphometric attributes such as surface slope, catchments area, average depth and width as well as cross-sectional area and volume of material/ soil excavated were determined.
For centuries, animals have been our first line of defense against toxins. Until now. Working in the world of nanotechnology, researchers have made an enormous leap forward in the detection of pollutants
Introduction to Roy Gibson, former director of ESA, at the 50th Anniversary of the Space Age held by the International Astronautical Federation on 21 March 2007 at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris, France.
The battle against climate change can only be won “in the hands of the many, not the few”, warns a top scientist.
