NASA recently launched the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite to provide real-time solar wind monitoring. After traveling for more than 100 days the satellite...
After more than 9 years and 3 billion miles NASA’s New Horizon mission is now doing a flyby of Pluto and Charon. The satellite has passed within 8,000 km of the former...
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Sentinel-2A satellite yesterday. The satellite payload features 13 spectral bands in the visible, NIR, and SWIR...
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...