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Vertical: The city from satellites to bunkers (Newcastle University)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
(Source. Newcastle University). Published on. 11 October 2016. A self-confessed 'geography geek' has just written a book that will change how we understand our place in the world. New book is a life-long project ... 'I've been writing this in my head since I was a kid,' he explains. When he first discovered Landsat satellite images in his teens growing up in Newcastle, Professor Graham was instantly hooked ... The politics of vertical housing....

Google un-clogs Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery downloads

Edit The Register 06 Oct 2016
In theory this should mean two-day waits for sat snaps are a thing of the past. Geo-geeks rejoice (and, if you're in a country that has such things, pray for your download allowance). Google is now hosting Landsat and Sentinel-2 data on its public cloud ... ....

New Satellite View of Gypsy Moth Damage in New England (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
Using time series of Landsat images, she generates predicted images based on a model fit to historical Landsat observations ... Pasquarella says a couple of factors have made working with Landsat images easier and more fruitful recently, paving the way for such analyses at the intersection of imagery and ecology. First, Landsat images that had once been prohibitively expensive became available for free public access in 2008....

World Space Week focuses on Earth observation (Inmarsat plc)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Oct 2016
(Source. Inmarsat plc). World Space Week focuses on Earth observation. 04 October 2016 ... Geological Survey and NASA Landsat mission, which has been taking images of the Earth since 1972, and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), which shares environmental data captured all over the planet ... Remote sensors ... For more information about World Space Week events visit www.worldspaceweek.org ... (noodl. 35654925) ....

See the Most Stunning Images of Earth from Landsat’s Space Operation

Edit Time Magazine 03 Oct 2016
Landsat mission, which celebrated it’s 50th anniversary this September, has collected millions of images of Earth from space, from the satellite Landsat 1, launched in 1972, to Landsat 8, launched in 2013. Both Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 continue to orbit the Earth today, capturing images of the entire planet every 16 days....

Looking Down on Nairobi's Explosive Growth

Edit CityLab 30 Sep 2016
The population of Nairobi has doubled since 1986 to 3.5 million, partly due to the Africa-wide trend of rural residents flocking to cities in search of employment ... First, here’s Nairobi in January 1986 spotted by the USGS’ Landsat 5 craft.NASA/USGS. And here’s the city this January as imaged by Landsat 8.NASA/USGS. A couple things to note ... Here’s more from NASA, which has highlighted these images on its Earth Observatory.....

Satellite Eye on Earth: August 2016 - in pictures

Edit The Guardian 28 Sep 2016
Ocean storms, California fires and an ice-free North-west Passage were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month ... Twitter. The dunes of the Taklimakan desert form the shoreline of Bosten Lake in China’s far north-west ... Twitter ... Twitter. Cape Coral, Florida, US ... The image above shows the Blue Cut fire at 10.36pm Pon 17 August, as observed by Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on the Landsat 8 satellite ... ....

VIMS collaborates with federal partners to study algal blooms (College of William and Mary)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
(Source. College of William and Mary). Algal blooms, which peak in lower Chesapeake Bay in mid- to late summer each year, are notoriously challenging to study ... Developing a collaboration ... Serendipitous spectra ... They also examined data from Landsat, a satellite developed, launched, and operated by NASA and the U.S ... Landsat doesn't sample the wavelengths ideal for detecting algae in coastal waters, and only passes over the bay every 16 days....

This Week at Interior September 23, 2016 (US Department of the Interior)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Sep 2016
Landsat turned 50 this week…On September 21, 1966, then- Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall announced his 'vision to observe Earth for the benefit of all' by creating 'a program aimed at gathering facts about the natural resources of the earth from earth-orbiting satellites.' Since the first launch in 1972, Landsat satellites have captured millions of environmental snapshots for a digital photo album of the family Earth....

Obama vetoes Sept. 11 Saudi bill; says would hurt national security

Edit AOL 23 Sep 2016
WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed legislation that would allow families of victims of the Sept ... national security interests ... ​​​​​ ... RELATED ... A true-color image taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) aboard the Landsat 7 satellite on September 12, 2001 shows New York City and the smoldering World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 attacks in this handout photo courtesy of NASA ... ....

FACT SHEET: Launching New Public-Private Partnership and Announcing Joint Declaration on Leveraging Open Data for Climate Resilience (President of the United States)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Sep 2016
(Source. President of the United States) ... It is being pursued in coordination with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data that was launched last year ... About the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness ... PREP Platform Prototype ... AWS commits to making new datasets available on the AWS Cloud at no cost, including datasets for global elevation, USDA's National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and archival Landsat data....

FACT SHEET: Launching New Public-Private Partnership and Announcing Joint Declaration on Leveraging Open Data for Climate Resilience (Office of Science and Technology Policy)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Sep 2016
(Source. Office of Science and Technology Policy) ... It is being pursued in coordination with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data that was launched last year ... About the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness ... AWS commits to making new datasets available on the AWS Cloud at no cost, including datasets for global elevation, USDA's National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and archival Landsat data ... CARTO ... Esri....

USGS-NASA Pecora Award Recognizes Excellence in Earth Observation (USGS - US Geological Survey)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
(Source. USGS - US Geological Survey) ... Dr ... Woodcock's research on has focused on error analysis, cloud detection, and land cover change detection in dense time series of Landsat imagery ... Woodcock has led the Landsat Science Team for nearly 10 years. He has played a key role in opening and expanding the Landsat archive, and he has provided guidance for the U.S. Geological Survey initiative to modernize Landsat-scale global land monitoring....
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