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DRS Provides Multiple Sensors for Japan Meteorological Agency’s Next-Generation Weather Satellites

DRS Technologies, Inc., a Finmeccanica Company, announced today that it provided multiple sensors on two of the latest Japan Meteorological Agency's next-generation weather satellites. Both satellites, referred to as Himawari-8 and Himawari-9, were built by the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.

From Leonardo DRS 13 Feb 2015

Online Resource Predicts Future Storm Surges Worldwide

A new online resource which will help coastguards, meteorological organisations and scientific communities predict future storm surge patterns has been created, with scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) playing a central role in its development.

6 Feb 2015

BTH Receives Knowledge Foundation Grant to Advance Remote Sensing for Monitoring Climate Change

Remote sensing is an important tool for monitoring climate change or situations where people's safety is threatened. Now the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen) in Sweden invests 2.3 million on research at BTH, Blekinge Institute of Technology, to improve the technology further.

2 Feb 2015

Researchers Pursue IoT Inspired Networks for Environmental Sensing

Academics at the University of Southampton are collaborating on a multidisciplinary project that could see a major advance in environmental sensing.

30 Jan 2015

OSSE Demonstrates Reliability of Radio Occultation Data in Improving Predictions of Severe Weather Events

GeoOptics, the satellite-based environmental data services company, in cooperation with Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), the award-winning environmental research and development company, has announced the initial results of an Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) showing the reliability of radio occultation data in improving predictions of severe weather and flash flood events.

8 Jan 2015

CoorsTek Sensors to Offer Particulate Matter Sensor Solutions with Acquisition of Pegasor

CoorsTek Sensors, the CoorsTek company that develops and deploys smart sensors across diverse markets to improve our environment, today announced that it had acquired sensor company Pegasor, Oy of Tampere, Finland.

8 Jan 2015

Earth Networks Presents at 9th Annual CONNECTIONS Summit at 2015 International CES

Earth Networks, the company behind WeatherBug and WeatherBug Home, will speak at Parks Associates’ 9th annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit at CES. CMO Amena Ali will participate in the session, “Internet of Things: Expanding Smart Devices,” at 9:15 am on January 6 at the Venetian Hotel.

6 Jan 2015

Global Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Market Forecast to Grow at 12.96% CAGR to $944.92 Million by 2020

The Industrial Wireless Sensor Network (IWSN) is the network of distributed autonomous sensors, which are used to monitor physical or environmental conditions. IWSNs are deployed in harsh environment areas, where wired networks cannot be deployed easily.

6 Jan 2015

NASA to Launch Soil Moisture Active Passive Instrument on Jan. 29, 2015

Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument will measure the moisture lodged in Earth's soils with an unprecedented accuracy and resolution. The instrument's three main parts are a radar, a radiometer and the largest rotating mesh antenna ever deployed in space.

31 Dec 2014

NASA's RapidScat Captures Data on High Winds from Storms During Christmas Week

Severe weather in the form of tornadoes is not something people expect on Christmas week but a storm system on Dec. 23 brought tornadoes to Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana. As the storm moved, NASA's RapidScat captured data on winds while NOAA's GOES satellite tracked the movement of the system.

26 Dec 2014

Environmental Monitoring Sensor News

DRS Provides Multiple Sensors for Japan Meteorological Agency’s Next-Generation Weather Satellites

Online Resource Predicts Future Storm Surges Worldwide

BTH Receives Knowledge Foundation Grant to Advance Remote Sensing for Monitoring Climate Change

Researchers Pursue IoT Inspired Networks for Environmental Sensing

OSSE Demonstrates Reliability of Radio Occultation Data in Improving Predictions of Severe Weather Events

CoorsTek Sensors to Offer Particulate Matter Sensor Solutions with Acquisition of Pegasor

Earth Networks Presents at 9th Annual CONNECTIONS Summit at 2015 International CES

Global Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Market Forecast to Grow at 12.96% CAGR to $944.92 Million by 2020

NASA to Launch Soil Moisture Active Passive Instrument on Jan. 29, 2015

NASA's RapidScat Captures Data on High Winds from Storms During Christmas Week

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