Subject: ‘satellite imagery’
April 12, 2012 Envisat Satellite MalfunctioningData, GIS NewsEnvisat, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) earth observation satellite, has stopped functioning properly. Communication with the satellite was lost on April 8th when data was unable to be retrieved as it passed over the ground control station in Kiruna, Sweden. Efforts by members of the ESA mission control team have not been successful in reestablishing ... read more 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 23, 2011 Landsat Satellite ImageryGIS News450 terrabytes of Landsat imagery from the European Space Agency’s archives has been opened up to the public for free. The agency’s archives covers 30 years of Landsat data. Data that can be requested for free from ESA’s archives includes: Archived Landsat-4 Thematic Mapper (TM) data in December 1982 Archived Landsat-5 TM data from April ... read more November 17, 2011 Earth from Space Web TVRemote SensingIf you love armchair geographic travels, the there is a new weekly program for you to watch. The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a web TV program to showcase satellite imagery from its various earth observation satellites such as Envisat and ERS. New installments are shown every Friday at 10 CET. The very first ... read more September 22, 2011 Views From AboveGeographyThe European Space Agency (ESA) has pieced together some amazing views taken from optical and radar instrument onboard its Envisat Satellite orbiting 800 km above the Earth. The video is a little over twenty-five minutes long and is set to calming music. The video pans over incredible views of the earth, each image containing brilliant colors ... 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 30, 2011 16th and 17th Century Cartography Versus 2011 ImageryMapsHow did the major cities in the 16th and 17th centuries compare with their modern counterparts? The Atlantic has a slideshow comparing the look of mostly European cities with satellite images pulled from Google Maps. Scans of the 16th century maps are housed on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s and the Jewish National and University Library’s Historic ... read more March 16, 2011 Mapping Japan's changed landscape from spaceGIS NewsFollowing the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March, satellite imagery has been vital in providing a clear picture of the extent of devastation to aid the relief effort now underway. Guest article from ESA. Following the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March, satellite imagery has been vital ... read more January 13, 2010 Post Earthquake Imagery for HaitiDataGoogle has announced that post-earthquake imagery is available to download as a KML file. The new imagery was taken at around 10:27am EST on January 13th, 2010 and covers the Port-au-Prince area of Haiti. For those that don’t or can’t view the file in Google Earth, the new imagery can also be viewed in ... read more |
