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Boise State University Geoscientist Gets NASA Grant to Identify Better Snow Remote Sensing Methods

Whether you love it or hate it, snow — or more accurately, snowpack — is critical to the survival of about a sixth of the world’s population. That includes Idaho, a highly arid state dependent on an extensive canal system for the irrigation of crops.

10 Sep 2015

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Radar Observatory Stops Returning Data

Mission 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.

3 Sep 2015

Novel Technique Combining AMSR2 and Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent Helps Estimate Sea Ice Concentration

Ice experts from the University of Colorado Boulder, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. National Ice Center and other institutions have developed a straightforward new technique for estimating sea ice concentration in the Arctic Ocean, and the new method improves the U.S. Navy's short-term sea ice forecast of ice edge location by almost 40 percent.

31 Aug 2015

PlanetiQ Opens New Facility for Development of Pyxis-RO Satellite Weather Sensors

PlanetiQ announced today the opening of its new science and engineering facility in Boulder, Colorado. The facility includes a laboratory clean room where PlanetiQ will complete the development and manufacture of its first 12 Pyxis-RO™ flight instruments for the world's first commercial satellite constellation exclusively focused on weather, climate and space weather.

25 Aug 2015

Proposals for Non-Invasive Biosensing and Point-of-Care Sensors Win UC Grants

The Office of Research has announced the winners of the inaugural Strategic Collaborative Faculty Grant Program, initiated by the Office of the Assistant Vice President of Research, Strategic Implementation.

20 Aug 2015

TEMPO Pollution Tracking Sensor Developed by Ball Aerospace Completes Critical Design Review

The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., has completed its Critical Design Review, confirming the integrity of the design and its ability to meet mission requirements. The instrument began fabrication in June after an earlier set of reviews.

5 Aug 2015

Weathernews to Incorporate Data from Moji's MoWeather App

Weathernews Inc. Japan, the global weather company, today announced it has partnered with Moji Co. Ltd. in China, to leverage and incorporate data from Moji's MoWeather app, the largest social weather app in China. With this significant additional weather dataset, Weathernews becomes the largest crowdsourced weather service in the world.

29 Jul 2015

ams’ Expands Environmental Sensor Portfolio with Acquisition of NXP’s CMOS Sensor Business

ams AG, a leading provider of high performance sensors and analog ICs, announced today that the company has acquired the CMOS

29 Jul 2015

Emerson Partners with WeatherBug to Optimize Sensi Wi-Fi Programmable Thermostats

Emerson and WeatherBug® are partnering to leverage big weather data and the Internet of Things to help consumers stay comfortable, save money and conserve energy – no matter the weather.

9 Jul 2015

Rail Industry Approves Michell’s Polymer Dew-Point Transmitter for Rolling Stock

Michell Instruments’ new dew-point transmitter has gained rail approval for permanent installation on rolling stock. The transmitters will give continuous, online measurements of dew point of the compressed air which is used to supply the braking systems and doors on train carriages to provide a full assurance of safety and efficiency.

From Michell Instruments Ltd 15 May 2015

Environmental Monitoring Sensor News

Boise State University Geoscientist Gets NASA Grant to Identify Better Snow Remote Sensing Methods

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Radar Observatory Stops Returning Data

Novel Technique Combining AMSR2 and Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent Helps Estimate Sea Ice Concentration

PlanetiQ Opens New Facility for Development of Pyxis-RO Satellite Weather Sensors

Proposals for Non-Invasive Biosensing and Point-of-Care Sensors Win UC Grants

TEMPO Pollution Tracking Sensor Developed by Ball Aerospace Completes Critical Design Review

Weathernews to Incorporate Data from Moji's MoWeather App

ams’ Expands Environmental Sensor Portfolio with Acquisition of NXP’s CMOS Sensor Business

Emerson Partners with WeatherBug to Optimize Sensi Wi-Fi Programmable Thermostats

Rail Industry Approves Michell’s Polymer Dew-Point Transmitter for Rolling Stock

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