News of the week
![]() Antarctic ice shelf thinning speeds up26 March 2015Scientists have their best view yet of the status of Antarctica's floating ice shelves and they find them to be thinning at an accelerating rate.
Image of the week
Lake Chad and a Bodele dust plumeThis east-looking photograph, taken by astronauts from the International Space Station on 12 February 2015, shows the arid landscapes of the Sahara and the darker vegetation of the wetter, semi-arid woodland known as the Sahel.
Earth Observation Missions
![]() South Korean satellite launched by Dnepr rocket26 March 2015A stockpiled Soviet-era ballistic missile shot out of an underground silo on a remote Russian military base Wednesday and powered into orbit with a South Korean Earth observation satellite.
Policy & Legislation
UK joins Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment19 March 2015ESA and the UK Space Agency have signed an arrangement that establishes access to data from the Sentinel satellites, marking a significant step in their exploitation.
Did you know?
![]() Scuttling satellites to save space26 March 2015It takes a lot of ingenuity - not to mention a massive quantity of sheer force - to get satellites into orbit. Now space engineers are applying comparable ingenuity to the challenge of getting their missions out of there, too.
Events
36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing19 - 23 October 2015Organisation: Asian Association of Remote Sensing (AARS) Location: Metro Manila, the Philippines Conference Overview: ACRS 2015 will bring together students, researchers, scientists, policy makers, professionals and practitioners from developed and developing countries from and around Asia to share insights into the challenges and opportunities of Remote Sensing and related geospatial technologies in building resiliency and encouraging economic growth and development in one, dynamic Asia. The conference takes place at a significant moment when disasters and climate change continues to negatively impact our people and the community. The conference, therefore, will provide an outstanding opportunity to learn how Remote Sensing will help us build resiliency to these disturbances, and in strengthening our capability to adapt to stress and change. While addressing this issue, ACRS 2015 will also look into finding ways and opportunities for Remote Sensing to encourage inclusive economic growth in Asian countries. It has been widely proven that Remote Sensing can help us map our natural resources. But how do we use Remote Sensing and related technologies to efficiently manage these resources to ensure productive employment as a means of increasing the incomes of poor and excluded groups and raising their standards of living? These important issues and many others will be discussed thoroughly during the plenary and thematic sessions, poster sessions, workshops, and many side events of ACRS 2015. |
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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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