Remote Sensing
Drones Helping to Conduct High-Resolution Remote Sensing
New York: Earth and environmental scientists are relying on affordable advanced technological drones to conduct long-term high-resolution experiments at a much lower cost than using aircraft or satellites. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Jason-3 Successfully Launched
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, 17 January 2016 – The Jason-3 high-precision ocean altimetry satellite was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 19:42 CET (10:42 California
Russia Reduces Reliance on Foreign Remote Sensing Satellite Data
MOSCOW – Russia Space Agency Roscosmos has said that Russia has significantly reduced its dependency on foreign remote sensing satellites. “A significant reduction has been noted in the use of foreign Earth remote
Utilizing Patch Metrics to Improve Classification of Remote Sensing Imagery
Classified remote sensing imagery is used to inform management of various natural resources, though achieving accurate results is a persistent challenge. In particular, some land cover types that are functionally
LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data Fusion
We all in the geospatial domain have heard about data fusion/image fusion, a technique or way of combining the spectral information of a coarse-resolution image with the spatial resolution of
Researchers from TNAU Uses Satellite Images for Crop Management
According to recent news by The Hindu, researchers from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, have calculated how much-cultivated area was inundated in the recent rains hit hard the costal
Remote Sensing Technology Reveals that Mount Everest Glaciers Has Shrunk 28% in 40 years
BEIJING: Glaciers on Mount Everest, a source of major Asian rivers like the Brahmaputra, have shrunk by 28 percent over the past 40 years due to climate change, according to
German-French MERLIN Mission at COP 21- Paris
On Tuesday 8 December at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference COP 21 in Paris, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the French space agency
UK and China to Monitor Bridge Movement Using Satellite
The University of Nottingham (UK) has signed up a MoU with the huge construction conglomerate China Railway Group to develop and commercialise advanced satellite techniques to monitor the structural integrity
ESA and World Bank Sign an Agreement on Using Earth Observation Information
At the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, the World Bank and ESA signed an agreement on using information from Earth observation satellites in support of sustainable development. The World Bank,
