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Latest METRIC Technology Would Allow Anyone to Produce Field-Scale Maps of Water Consumption

This fall scientists at the University of Nebraska, with partners at Google, Inc. and the University of Idaho, introduced the latest evolution of METRIC technology--an application called EEFLUX, which will allow anyone in the world to produce field-scale maps of water consumption.

16 Oct 2015

EUMETSAT, ESA Enter Development Agreement for Metop Second Generation Satellites

This latest landmark in the long-standing cooperation was signed by EUMETSAT’s Director-General, Alain Ratier, and Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes.

6 Oct 2015

U.S. and India Collaborate to Better Predict Ocean Weather

To better understand global weather patterns and increase scientific collaboration between the U.S. and India, researchers supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have completed a month-long cruise studying summer monsoon conditions in the Bay of Bengal.

29 Sep 2015

Comprehensive Analysis of Global Soil Moisture Sensor Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Soil Moisture Sensor Market by Type (Volumetric and Water Potential), Application (Agriculture, Residential, Landscaping, Sports Turf, Weather Forecasting, Forestry, Research Studies and Construction), & Geography - Global trends & Forecast to 2020" report to their offering.

18 Sep 2015

NASA's TES Satellite Instrument Helps Clarify What Happens to Precipitation That Falls on Land

Research using NASA satellite measurements has given scientists a better understanding of what happens to rain and snow that falls on land -- how much runs off into rivers, lakes and aquifers; how much plants use; and how much simply evaporates.

7 Sep 2015

CLASP Set to Deliver First-Ever Measurement of Magnetic Field in the Sun's Chromosphere

Conducting science in space is never simple. Imagine trying to study a specific region of the sun, for example, from a vantage point some 93 million miles away, probing that area at a level of precision less than 0.1 percent -- with less than five minutes to do the job.

4 Sep 2015

The US Navy, Lockheed Martin to Launch Mobile User Objective System Secure Communications Satellite on August 31

The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin are ready to launch the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) secure communications satellite, MUOS-4, here on Monday, August 31, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The launch window is between 6:07 a.m. and 6:51 a.m. EDT.

31 Aug 2015

Northrop Grumman Initiates New Partnerships to Offer the Australian Defence Force, Advanced Satellite Communications

Northrop Grumman Corporation has partnered with ViaSat and Optus to offer the Australian Defence Force (ADF) a proven solution for its utilisation of the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.

31 Aug 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

Airborne LiDAR Technology Has Far More Applications and Increase in Positional Accuracy

A whole new technology has come into use for producing aerial photogrammetry three dimensional (3D) imagery – enough to make nerds like me pretty excited.

20 Jul 2015

Earth Science and Sensing News

Latest METRIC Technology Would Allow Anyone to Produce Field-Scale Maps of Water Consumption

EUMETSAT, ESA Enter Development Agreement for Metop Second Generation Satellites

U.S. and India Collaborate to Better Predict Ocean Weather

Comprehensive Analysis of Global Soil Moisture Sensor Market

NASA's TES Satellite Instrument Helps Clarify What Happens to Precipitation That Falls on Land

CLASP Set to Deliver First-Ever Measurement of Magnetic Field in the Sun's Chromosphere

The US Navy, Lockheed Martin to Launch Mobile User Objective System Secure Communications Satellite on August 31

Northrop Grumman Initiates New Partnerships to Offer the Australian Defence Force, Advanced Satellite Communications

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

Airborne LiDAR Technology Has Far More Applications and Increase in Positional Accuracy

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