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• WCS Releases Atlas of the Patagonia Sea

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has released the first comprehensive atlas of the Patagonia Sea, with accurate maps for this ecosystem that were gathered from hundreds of thousands of recordings of individually tracked penguins, albatrosses, sea lions and other marine wildlife. The data spans a 10-year period, ...
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• Get a $36 Million World Map for Free

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  When the first Landsat Earth -observing satellite launched in 1972, virtually every piece of technology that we think of as essential for viewing, sharing, or analyzing digital images — like the internet or DVDs — either hadn’t been invented or commercialized, like the microprocessors that run desktop ...
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• Rosetta spots Earth

  
  PlanetBye — Authority: 127
  A Living Planet Esas Rosetta did this. :-)
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• New Report Available Regarding Understanding Landscape Change

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The National Research Council has just completed a new report about landscape change, and have identified nine research challenges and four research initiatives to better understand how Earth’s landscapes change. The research could advance our understanding of environmental issues, from coastal erosion to ...
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• USGS Director Promotes the Benefits of Free Data to GEO Meeting

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The newly-appointed director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Marcia McNutt, will be delivering a message about free and easily accessible U.S. satellite data to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO-VI) meeting this week. The free availability of Landsat satellite data contributes to a shared vision of the ...
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• Symposium on the Data Sharing Plans and on the Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing in GEOSS

  
  Zzzoot — Authority: 115
  Today in Washington. D.C, the CODATA organized Symposium on the Data Sharing Plans and on the Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing in GEOSS was held. Among other things, it looked at the draft GEOSS data sharing plan: The Plan, now endorsed by 80 government Members and 56 Participating Organizations, highlights ...
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• The Earth

  
  PlanetBye — Authority: 127
  Great Perspective An oblique view on the Amazon. Swell. :-)
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• Sweden

  
  PlanetBye — Authority: 127
  Sweden Looking Good Credit: ESA Northern Sweden, more precisely Lapland, is pretty pretty on this image from above. :-)
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• Brazil Deforestation Drops Dramatically

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  A report from the government indicate that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon have dropped nearly 50 percent from August 2008 to July 2009. The National Institute for Space Research analyzed satellite imagery and found that 7,008 square kilometers were cleared, which is the lowest rate since monitoring began in ...
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• Crescent Earth as Seen by Comet Chasing Spacecraft

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  Title this one "Rich Blue Crescent" (as opposed to Pale Blue Dot.) This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESAs Rosetta comet chaser today (November 12) at 12:28 GMT from about 633,000 km as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. Closest ...
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• Remote Sensing as Machine

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The content of a recent story in AllAfrica.com caught my eye due to the news that Uganda will soon have a GEONETCast satellite imagery receiver to monitor the weather and environment for increased agricultural production. The imagery is a vital link in helping these farmers obtain the data necessary to mitigate ...
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• NASA Satellites Monitor Tropical Storm Ida

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  NASA has been keeping an eye on tropical storm Ida off the Gulf Coast, which was downgraded from a hurricane earlier today. Its satellites have been helping meteorologists to measure the rainfall and windspeeds of the storm. Ida is predicted by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida to make landfall near ...
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• Long awaited satellite to monitor water cycle reaches orbit

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  The 658kg (1,450 lb) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) this week carried a payload composed of a single instrument – the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis ( MIRAS ). The SMOS is the first ever satellite designed both to map sea ...
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• India Confronts China Over Dam Building

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  India’s National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) produced satellite imagery that seems to suggest that China is building a dam on the Brahmaputra River. This evidence prompted the government to bypass the typical intergovernmental channels of flood-water data sharing and raise the level of discourse through the ...
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• NASA Funds Ecosystem Study of the Appalachian Trail

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  Yeqiao Wang, a professor of terrestrial remote sensing at the University of Rhode Island, has received $1.15 million in funding from NASA to conduct a four-year study of the Appalachian Trail ecosystem. The study will be the first to take a look at the trail’s ecosystem in its entirety from it’s southern start at ...
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• Canadian ICT Funding Favors Geo Projects

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  Ottawa-based Precarn Incorporated has announced $2.1 million in funding to move first-of-their-kind Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) toward commercialization. The funding is aimed at strengthening Canada’s competitiveness in the digital economy and will be directed toward 14 projects.The Precarn ...
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• Study Concludes Most Land Cover Change Increases Temperatures

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  Researchers have completed a study that found that almost all changes in land cover that removes vegetative cover results in increased surface temperatures. The findings are already adding significant weight to the recognition that land use change needs to be incorporated into computer models that are designed to ...
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• Two ESA Satellites Launch Successfully

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  Last night at 2:50 am Central European Time, two European Space Agency (ESA) satellites were successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. The Rockot launch vehicle was carrying both the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, and the Proba-2 satellite. SMOS will monitor the ...
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• European satellite to provide new insights into how water is cycled around Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 2 (ANI): An European satellite that will provide major new insights into how water is cycled around the Earth, has been launched into space.According to a report by BBC News, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) spacecraft will make the first global maps of the amount of moisture held in soils ...
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• Spring Bloom

  
  PlanetBye — Authority: 127
  Spring! Bloom On the other side of the planet they are enjoying the spring right now. While Im getting colder each minute...
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