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Remember the successful use of balloons to map the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? The Grassroots Mapping Forum team that brought this innovative and low-cost remote sensing approach to this project now has a project on Kickstarter to raise money to make low-cost kits. For a pledge of just $85, you receive the Balloon Mapping Kit [...]
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This past Friday, a Russian Soyuz rocket launched France’s new Pleiades-1 high-resolution imaging satellite from French Guiana, along with five other satellites. The Pleiades-1 has a 70cm resolution, mulitspectral views in the visible and near-infrared bands, and a swath width of 20km , putting it on par with satellites from GeoEye and DigitalGlobe. The satellite [...]
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Headwall Photonics is manufacturing the Micro-Hyperspec imaging sensor for use on UAVs. This low-weight system is an ideal low-cost tool for farmers and researchers to monitor vegetation health across wide areas at low cost. The 1.5 lb. sensor can be purchased alone or with an airborne configuration with accurate GPS/INS, a data processing engine, a [...]
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Researchers looking at Landsat imagery over a 20-year period in Northern Quebec have shown an increase in shrubs and grasses with a warming world. The detailed study is one of the first to show detailed views of the impact of warming on plant distribution and density in northern areas of North America. Much of the [...]
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The USGS reports today that the 27-year-old Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite has a degrading electronic component that is preventing the satellite from transmitting images to ground stations. The fluctuating performance of this component has been monitored over the past few months and over the last ten days the data downlink capacity has dramatically worsened. [...]
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Today is 11-11-11, and the day set aside by the Creative Visions foundation as the One Day on Earth collaborative film to help benefit humanity. This effort that was founded in 2008 held its first simultaneous filming event last year on 10-10-10, with a unique geo-tagged video archive that will also soon be a feature [...]
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San Diego-based Tomnod combines crowdsourcing and machine intelligence to analyze massive datasets, particularly geospatial imagery. Some of their recent applications for crowdsourced imagery analysis include mapping building damage after the Christchurch earthquake and the search for the tomb of Genghis Khan. Most recently, the company partnered with Amnesty International and DigitalGlobe to monitor human rights [...]
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South Africa’s only earth observation satellite Sumbandila has been out of contact and has failed to download any imagery since July, according to an announcement this week from the South African National Space Agency (Sansa). The failure of the two-year-old imaging satellite is being attributed to a blast of solar radiation, and may be unrecoverable [...]
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