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Graph of temperature data at the AppEEARS site
May 31, 2016
NASA has just released version 1.1 of the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) site.  This site provides an easy way to obtain a variety...
Image of Brooksvale Park from a small drone
March 31, 2016
This past fall Prof. Xuhui Lee, F&ES, taught a semester-long workshop “Remote Sensing with Drones” that included several guest lecturers and a couple of drone flights...
March 29, 2016
Sarah Parcak will be giving a talk titled “The future of archaeology: Space-based approaches to ancient landscapes” on Wednesday 6 April at 5pm at the Whitney Humanities...
ExoMars 2016: Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli
March 14, 2016
The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched the first mission of their ExoMars program.  The mission consists of an orbiter and a lander and were placed in...
Computer rendition of Terra by NASA.
March 8, 2016
On 18 February 2016 the Terra satellite was placed in safe mode.  This means most systems were shut down and data collection was stopped.  We do not have any information on...
Vulture fitted with a GPS and camera
January 25, 2016
Back in 1907 Julius Neubronner designed a miniature camera that he mounted on homing pigeons.  For a brief point in time this was a very unique and interesting form of aerial...
NASA JPL SMAP image of South Carolina flooding 5 Oct 2015
October 19, 2015
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite, as the name implies, contains an active radar sensor and a passive radiometer. This was successfully launched on 29 January...