News of the week
![]() Sentinel-2: Europe's 'Landsat' ready to picture planet Earth25 February 2015The lead spacecraft in Europe's new multi-billion-euro Earth observation (EO) programme is built and ready to go into orbit.
Image of the week
Musa Bay, IranThe Advanced Land Imager aboard NASA's EO-1 satellite acquired this view of Musa Bay, in Iran, on 20 January 2015.
Earth Observation Missions
![]() New NASA space cowboy successfully deploys its 'lasso'26 February 2015Like a cowboy at a rodeo, NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), has triumphantly raised its "arm" and unfurled a huge golden "lasso" (antenna) that it will soon spin up to rope the best soil moisture maps ever obtained from space.
Policy & Legislation
![]() The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the United Nations University (UNU) have agreed to continue to strengthen their cooperation. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the DLR Executive Board, and Jakob Rhyner, Vice Rector of UNU in Europe and Director of the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, signed an agreement to this effect on 23 February 2015.
Did you know?
![]() 510 SmallSat launches planned over next five years26 February 2015According to Euroconsult's newly released research titled Prospects for the Small Satellite Market, a total of 510 small satellites, or SmallSats (meaning nanosats, cubesats, microsats and minisats) are to be launched in the next five years, a two-third increase in the average number of SmallSats per year versus that of the past decade.
Events
35th EARSeL Symposium and Temporal Analysis Workshop15 - 19 June 2015Organisation: European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Location: Stockholm, Sweden Symposium Overview: EARSeL is a scientific network of European remote sensing laboratories, coming from both academia and commercial/industrial sector, which covers all fields of geoinformation and earth observations through remote sensing. All scientists, professionals and researchers involved or interested in the field of the symposium are strongly encouraged to present their papers in many subjects including:
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Visit the eoPortal database to find out about spaceborne EO missions and sensors to discover more about past, operational and future missions. This is complemented with detailed articles of airborne sensors. This database is based on the book of Herbert J. Kramer Observation of the Earth and its Environments and describes over 600 missions in detail. Online updated version of "Earth Observation History of Technical Introduction" available as of January 02, 2017. |
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