News of the week
Sentinel-2 catches eye of algal storm04 September 2015The Sentinel-2A satellite has been in orbit for only a matter of weeks, but new images of an algal bloom in the Baltic Sea show that it is already exceeding expectations. Built essentially as a land monitoring mission, Sentinel-2 will also certainly find its way into marine applications.
Image of the week
Chilubi Island, ZambiaAn astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the strange rounded shapes along the coastline of Zambia's Chilubi Island on 14 June 2015. The light-toned sand island stands out from the dark waters of Lake Bangweulu.
Earth Observation Missions
![]() NASA soil moisture radar ends operations, mission science continues02 September 2015Mission managers for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite's two science instruments, can no longer return data. However, the mission, which was launched in January to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed, continues to produce high-quality science measurements supporting SMAP's objectives with its radiometer instrument. ![]() Release of JAXA Himawari Monitor02 September 2015The Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a new webpage "JAXA Himawari Monitor" showing the colour images and the quicklook images of the geophysical data from the geostationary satellite of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Himawari-8.
Did you know?
Preparing for GOES-R: Practice makes perfect04 September 2015Once launched and operational NOAA's next generation weather satellite, GOES-R, will provide scans of Earth five times faster at four times the image resolution than previous geostationary satellites. How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement01 September 2015Researchers at University of La Rioja (Spain) have developed a new method to eliminate artificial satellites in Highly Elliptical Orbits when they finish their mission. The methodology, which allows for a reduction of both cost and risk, has been tested with the European Space Agency INTEGRAL mission, which will re-enter into the Earth's atmosphere in order to disintegrate in 2029.
Events
![]() Living Planet Symposium 201609 May - 13 May 2016Organisation: European Space Agency (ESA) Location: Prague, Czech Republic Registration deadline: 22 April 2016 Symposium overview: The 2016 European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium is organised with the support of the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. The main objectives of the symposium are:
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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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