The workshop “Training in Geospatial Analysis of Disease Vectors” was recently held in Muguga, Kenya to introduce attendees on the use of geographic information systems,...
CO2 data from the OCO-2 satellite are now available to the public from the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). These level 2 data...
The USGS has just released the 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2011) for the State of Alaska. This product has a 30 meter spatial resolution with 20 land cover...
Note: SMAP was successfully launched on 31 January and Ground Control can communicate with the satellite. We look forward to exploring this new great data in 6 months or so...
The introductory remote sensing class Observing Earth From Space will be co-taught this spring by professors Ron Smith and Xuhui Lee. Students learn how to manipulate...
Yesterday the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and sent back a photo to prove it! The Rosetta mission was launched 10 years...
The USGS has begun to distribute global Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data at 1 arc-second (~30m) resolution. Previously SRTM data at this resolution...
