South Africa and Russia have signed an agreement to collaborate on earth observation and on other areas of space science and technology. The deal allows South Africa to access historic Russian satellite data collected over southern Africa. Sandile Malinga, the acting Chief Executive of the South African National Space Agency, said access to this data […]

  China has announced it will launch its first high resolution, stereoscopic mapping satellite for civilian use in the second half of 2011. The announcement came within two months of the country’s successful launch of a navigation satellite, its fourth orbiter. The mapping satellite is expected to "provide steady and reliable data sources for surveying […]

  The results of a project to assess coastal vulnerability in Western Australia and prepare for possible sea level rise have been made available. The models include complete data files of water depths and broad seabed imagery from pseudo-reflectance and a high resolution coastal 3D model of the land and seabed between Two Rocks and […]