Subject: ‘nasa’
January 17, 2012 New Baby Island in the Zubair IslandsGeographyThe Zubair Islands are located in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on top of a shield volcano. Shield volcanos are created from fluid basalt lava flows, have broad, smooth slopes, and resemble a warrior’s shield, hence the name. The island chain, until the new eruption, contained ten islands and submerged shoals in a shallow ... read more December 20, 2011 North Korea Mapping OdditiesData, GIS NewsThe recent death of “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il, dictator of North Korea, has brought this isolationist country to the forefront of world news again. Known in part for shunning most of the outside world, one of the ways information is gleaned about this country is through remote sensing and satellite imagery. For example, Amnesty International ... read more November 28, 2011 Animation of Southern Lights (Aurora Australis)GeographyNASA’s IMAGE satellite captured an amazing light show of the southern lights (aurora australis) back in 2005. The event was recorded on September 11, 2005, four days after a solar flare sent an ionized gas of protons and electrons known as plasma towards the earth. The solar storm generated a ring of light observed in the animation. ... read more October 23, 2011 Updated 3D Global Topo Data from NASADataBased on measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft, a new 3D topographic map has been released as a joint effort by NASA and Japan. The digital elevation model (DEM) was developed from imagery obtained from the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument aboard Terra. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, ... read more August 7, 2011 Global Datasets from NASA's Earth ObservatoryDataGlobal datasets covering observations about the ocean, land, atmosphere, energy, and life are available for exploring and downloading as KMZ or GeoTiff files. The data is processed from MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) which is on the Terra (EOS AM)and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. The two satellites combined view the entire surface of the earth every one to ... read more May 28, 2011 Finding Lost Pyramids with Satellite ImageryIndustry and Subjects in GISSarah Parcak, an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, is featured on an upcoming documentary on BBC entitled “Egypt’s Lost Cities“. The Egyptologist analyzed satellite imagery to identify over 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 ancient settlements previously unknown. Her team used infra-red imagery to differentiate the denser mud brick material buried under Egyptian ... read more April 25, 2011 Geospatial Redux: Spatial Statistics Book, NASA and USAID Data AccordGIS NewsEsri Press has released Spatial Statistical Data Analysis for GIS Users. The volume, published on DVD, focuses on explaining the applications of statistical analysis in GIS. From the press release: “This book provides a fundamental guide to understanding and applying the three tasks of geostatistical modeling,” said author Konstantin Krivoruchko, whose career has focused on developing statistical ... read more December 16, 2010 Global Temperatures Since 1880GeographyNASA takes a look at global temperatures and has a short piece and animated map showing the global change in temperature since 1880. According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and shown in this series of maps, the average global temperature on Earth has increased ... read more September 1, 2010Astronomy – GIS For Other PlanetsLink LibraryNot just for landlubbers, the use of GIS technology has applications in astronomy. Browse this list for GIS and mapping resources related to outer space. Deep Space Sky Mapping Mapping software containing “the 250,000 star NASA Skymap database, the 18-million star Guide Star Catalog, the Saguaro Deep Sky database with about 10,000 objects, and about ... read more July 21, 2010 Capturing the Gulf of Mexico Oil SlickDataNASA has put together an informative page on the challenges of capturing imagery of the Gulf of Mexico oil slick and why new images aren’t posted each day. Terra and Aqua satellites are the only two NASA satellites that can provide pictures in near real-time. But unlike weather satellites that look at the same region ... read more |
