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• ‘World forest observatory’ needed to cut deforestation rates, say scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, December 1 (ANI): A research by scientists at the University of Leeds, UK, has determined that a world forest observatory is needed to monitor the commitments that will be made by developing countries at the Copenhagen summit to cut their deforestation rates.The research, led by Dr Alan Grainger, outlines ...
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• Maupiti Island Satellite Image

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  NASA’s Earth Observatory has posted an interesting satellite image of Maupiti Island, near Bora Bora in the South Pacific. It consists of a central island surrounded by a lagoon and coral reefs.
  1 week ago

• Tehran Satellite Images: 1985-2009

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  Tehran is one of the world’s fastest growing cities with a population surging from about 3 million in 1985 to over 10 million today. NASA’s Earth Observatory has a Landsat image pair that shows land use change from 1985 to 2009.
  1 week ago

• Heavy Snow In China – Satellite Image

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  Earth Observatory has a satellite image of the heaviest snowfall to occur in China in the past several decades. The image shows part of the North China Plain near the city of Shijiazhuang. Small cities and towns are easy to spot in this image.
  1 week ago

• Finding Magma Systems in African Rift

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  For the past 10 years, satellite images have been used to study active magma systems in the East African Rift. Activity has been recorded at 4 Kenyan volcanoes: Paka, Longonot, Menengai, and Suswa.Related: East Africa’s Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System.
  1 week ago

• USGS Announces Free Satellite Images

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  USGS director Marcia McNutt announces, “Our policy of providing free Landsat data supports a central GEO goal: to promote global distribution of earth observation data. With a continuous record of earth observation since 1972, Landsat provides the most complete set of land surface information as well as a vital ...
  1 week ago

• Historical Satellite Images in Google Earth

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  I just learned that you can view historical satellite images in Google Earth, changing the time using a slider tool.If you don’t have Google Earth you can download it free.
  2 weeks ago

• Green Screen: How To Use Effectively

  
  Watch Movie Online — Authority: 135
  The arrival of satellite television saw the virtual explosion of TV channels, broadcasters, production houses and content producers. This is because satellite TV and direct to home platforms have indeed pushed the frontiers of television broadcasting beyond all conceivable boundaries and onto a worldwide scale. It is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spectacular Satellite Image of Gulf Coast Sediment

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  Plumes of sediment clouded the Gulf of Mexico on November 10, 2009, when NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this photo-like image. Much of the material that colors the water is likely resuspended sediment dredged up from the sea floor in shallow waters. Other sediment was washed into the Gulf by rivers.
  2 weeks ago

• Cyclone in Mumbai, Cyclone Phyan, Level 6, Indian Meteorological Department, Weather Forecast Mumbai, Goa

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 130
  The Indian meteorological department has said that the Cyclone named Phyan was about 250 km west of Goa at 2.30 a.m. Thursday morning, it is been issued an “orange” alert. That is one step below the red alert given for a severe cyclone. Reportedly the Cyclone will hit Mumbai tomorrow around 5.30 am morning. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dust Plumes Over the Mediterranean Sea

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  NASA’s Aqua Satellite captured this spectacular image of dust plumes streaming from the desert of Egypt out over the Mediterranean Sea on October 4, 2009.
  3 weeks ago

• El Misti Volcano

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  The city center of Arequipa, Peru is only 11 miles away from the summit of El Misti. Arequipa has nearly 1 million residents and much of the building stone for Arequipa was quarried from pyroclastic flow deposits produced by El Misti.
  3 weeks ago

• Mineral Exploration Using Satellite Images For Geological Applications

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Monique Romeijnm Satellite Remote Sensing has been a standard first step for the mineral and petroleum exploration industry. Satellite imagery from satellite sensors such as GeoEye-1 , WorldView-2 , QuickBird , IKONOS , ASTER and LANDSAT 7 +ETM have benefited geologists, scientists and exploration ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thomas Traum

  
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  Internet, Particles, slow motion, freeze frames, satellite images, anti gravity, rewinds, liquids, science fiction, death, deaths, decadence, violence, brutalism, noise, loudness, landscapes, imaginary landscapes, urbanism, webcams, loops, emotions, paintings, imagecollections, stage sets, the Black Forest, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Spectacular Glacial Dust Plume

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  “In this image, the wind is blowing from the snow-covered mountains to the Gulf of Alaska. The wind picked up fine sediment from the riverbank and carried it over the ocean. The pale brown plume of airborne dust contrasts sharply with the dark ocean beneath it.” Quoted from the Earth Observatory image release.
  4 weeks ago

• Timor Sea Oil Well Still Leaking

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  More than two months after a blowout at a newly-drilled oil well, crude oil and gas condensate continued to leak into the Timor Sea, between northwest Australia and Indonesia. According to news reports, the company responsible for the leaking well has tried to cap it three times without success.
  4 weeks ago

• New Satellite to Monitor Soil, Ocean

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  A new satellite is scheduled to launch from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome on November 2. It will be able to measure soil moisture and ocean salinity from orbit.
  4 weeks ago

• Oil Depot Fire: Jaipur, India

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  Earth Observatory has a satellite image of a smoke plume streaming from a fire at an oil depot near Jaipur, India. The fire started on October 29. Six workers were killed and 150 were injured.
  4 weeks ago

• Aerial Photos Show off Hawaii’s Spectacular Beaches and Attractions

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 535
  HONOLULU, Oct. 29, 2009 — When it comes to vacation planning, Hawaii visitors have a massive appetite for beach information. Now HawaiiGaga.com, one of Hawaii’s premier travel Web sites, has partnered with Hawaiian Images Photography and Video to supplement its panoramic beach and attraction pictures with aerial ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Zealand Phytoplankton Bloom

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  This satellite image shows a picturesque phytoplankton bloom off New Zealand’s eastern coast. The different colors in the swirls show concentrations of coccolithophores (light blue) and diatoms (dark green-blue).
  4 weeks ago

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