News of the week
![]() EU's first Sentinel to launch 'in April'17 January 2014The date has been set for the roll-out of the European Union's multi-billion-euro Earth observation project.
Image of the week
![]() Zaria, NigeriaThe image shows Zaria and its surroundings where population use the river basins to farm tobacco and cotton. (Source: Deimos Imaging)
Earth Observation Missions
![]() NOAA satellites helped save 253 people last year17 January 2014The same NOAA satellites that helped forecasters predict severe weather, such as the Moore, Okla., tornado last May and November's deadly Midwest tornado outbreak, also played a key role in rescuing 253 people from potentially life-threatening scenarios throughout the United States and its surrounding waters last year.
Research and Applications
![]() For ten days, 74 scientists and tourists were trapped in the Antarctic on board the Russian Akademik Shokalskiy research vessel. Strong winds had driven ice floes into a bay, blocking the ship's advancement. High-resolution satellite data provided by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) helped to assess the ice conditions at the location.
Policy & Legislation
![]() The image that best captures the raison d'etre of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) - which is holding its 10th plenary in Geneva, Switzerland, this month - is not a satellite image. Strictly speaking, the image doesn't even fall into the category of Earth observation; it is a rather ordinary looking graph from a PowerPoint presentation used by Barbara J. Ryan, director of the GEO Secretariat, at a workshop hosted by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in Ankara, Turkey, in November.
Did you know?
![]() Second spacewalk planned to install UrtheCast cameras16 January 2014Russian cosmonauts will step outside the International Space Station later this month for a second try to set up a pair of Earth observation cameras after a cabling issue inside the complex cut short a spacewalk in December.
Events
Split Remote Sensing Summer School 201422 - 23 May 2014Organisation: G-ECO Research Inc. Location: Split, Croatia Course Overview: The objective of SplitRS 2014 is to promote the state-of-the-art Remote Sensing Technology among young professionals and strengthen young people's professional networking. This intensive and advanced, 2-day learning event, presents best insights into most recent techniques learned from top international professors and researchers. Participants will learn about different remote sensing applications using both passive and active sensors. Learning about information extraction techniques will be an integral part of the school program in 2014. |
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EO Missions Database
Visit the eoPortal database to find out about spaceborne EO missions and sensors to discover more about past, operational and future missions. This is complemented with detailed articles of airborne sensors. This database is based on the book of Herbert J. Kramer Observation of the Earth and its Environments and describes over 600 missions in detail. Online updated version of "Earth Observation History of Technical Introduction" available as of January 02, 2017. |
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