A new Russian weather satellite takes half-hourly snapshots of planet Earth in unprecedented detail – with a 121-megapixel camera
Beautiful detailed images of our planet are being shot by a new Russian weather satellite, named Electro-L. Every 30 minutes, the geostationary satellite takes a photograph from a distance of 22,000 miles above [...]
Thanks to a junior scholar grant from the National Science Foundation and the American Association of Geographers, I’ll be heading to Cologne this August for the 32nd International Geographical Congress. The poster I’ll be presenting is a conceptual idea about the use of crowdsourcing for [...]
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You must be a registered user to create and submit orders for ASTER GDEM V2 products. Refer to the Reverb Create Account [...]
Landsat 5 Mission Suspended
By Katrina Laygo, posted on March 21st, 2012 in Earth Observation, Quick Look & Earthzine
Landsat 5’s 28th birthday this year was marked by a suspension in operations while the USGS Flight Operations Team “continues to investigate options for [...]
The Polar Geophysics Group’s new home on the Internet
Our research cluster, the Polar Geophysics Group, finally has a home on the Internet. Before commencing the design of the website, I wasn’t sure whether to go for a standalone (like a dot.org) or a site embedded within the default LDEO template and attached to the LDEO URL. After consulting with the group’s PI, I [...]
This post is the result of a frustrating attempt on my part to get data from the European Space Agency: I was looking for imagery from the MERIS (MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) sensor aboard Envisat, so I googled “meris data” and the top result was the ESA’s “Earthnet Online” page [...]
On the importance of open-access data
In the summer of 2009, between the courses of Reference Systems for Geographic Information, Applied Geostatistics, GIS Applications in Developing Countries was the course Advanced Research Methods and Skills, in which my colleagues and I had to develop proposals for our thesis projects. It was the last semester of my MSc [...]
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