The Map Room points out a beautiful visualisation created by NASA that shows the world’s ocean currents in a way that looks like it could have been created by Van Gogh himself. Simply beautiful, and there’s a link to a video, too. With April Fool’s Day having just passed us by, eSpatial have […]
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Best of the Blogs 12 March 2012
Xinhuanet have an article about the latest 7m resolution, full-coverage moon map released by the Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). “If there were airports and harbors on the moon, the Chang'e-1 could simply identify them, while the Chang'e-2 would be able to detect planes or ships inside […]
US Government to reduce cost of Landsat
U.S. government agencies are collaborating to figure out ways to reduce the cost of future Landsat missions, as a result of congressional direction included in the 2012 budget. “Although Congress has provided $2 million to the U.S. Geological Service for Landsat 9 program development, they have also requested that the Administration re-examine how […]
Nationwide one-second DEM launched
The CSIRO, the Australian National University (ANU), the Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation have just completed building the finest resolution national computer model of Australia's ground surface topography and river networks. . The new one-second – or 30-metre resolution – hydrological Digital Elevation Model (DEM) incorporates rivers […]
Best of the Blogs 8 November 2011
Australian Geographic features a video put together by NASA that shows Australian bushfires over the last decade. The data is placed over the top of MODIS NDVI data, so it’s also interesting to see the vegetation wax and wane during periods of drought and… non-drought (what’s the period called when we don’t have a […]
Best of the Blogs, 25 October 2011
Did you know that they world population is now 7 billion? The historic milestone has either just been reached, or will be reached by the month’s end (depending on who you ask). Spatial Sustain has a post that shows a map that SAP and the United Nations Population fund have put together that examines […]
LINZ broadcasting real-time GNSS data
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has started broadcasting real-time, one second Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data. The data is streamed free-of-charge from 39 Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) throughout New Zealand. This includes 34 LINZ PositioNZ stations and 5 stations which are part of the GeoNet project run by GNS Science. Users […]
Ocean-mapping satellite launched into orbit
Last Friday saw the launch of NASA's Aquarius instrument, which will be used to measure the saltiness of Earth's oceans in order to advance our understanding of the global water cycle and improve climate forecasts. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket carrying the Aquarius/SAC-D observatory for NASA and the Space Agency of […]
ISRSE34 is underway
The 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment is happening this week in Sydney. The theme of the symposium is The GEOSS era: towards operational environmental monitoring, and contains five parallel streams: Earth observation supporting disaster management and situational awareness; Briefings from space agencies; GEO forest carbon; Space policies; A panel on climate and […]
GPS workshops for farmers
Over one hundred Central Queensland farmers have received satellite imagery of their properties, showing the extent of the recent 2010-11 floods. Regional development agency, Agforce, is to run a series of GPS and GIS technology workshops next week at Duaringa, Banana and Mount Larcom to help producers and farmers easily and accurately design, […]
