Spot Image Corp. announced that it has been named a Google Earth Enterprise Partner. Spot Image Corp. will leverage this new partnership with Google to deliver imagery through current and planned web-based solutions to clients through Google Earth. Spot Image Corp. will develop ‘ready-to-use’ image data sets for Google Earth and Google Earth Enterprise users

This contribution outlines how GEOSS (Global Earth Observing System of Systems) can aid current biodiversity monitoring systems by creating links with other Earth Observation networks to help fill in gaps in our present knowledge.

Bangalore, Aug. 30 Two commercial satellite launches made from Sriharikota during 2007-08 have driven up the revenue of ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation to Rs 940 crore for that year.

Michael Fehringer is responsible for overseeing the system design of the GOCE mission, which means ensuring that the satellite and related data-processing facilities all meet the scientific and technical requirements that were originally laid down when the mission was selected. Michael Fehringer, an Austrian national, has been working for the GOCE Project at ESA’s European

The next generation of earth observation and geoinformation services begin with RapidEye’s constellation of five satellites.

GeoEye, Inc. announced today the launch of the world’s highest resolution, commercial Earth-imaging satellite is scheduled for September 4, 2008, from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The planned launch time is 11:50:57 a.m. PDT (2:50:57 p.m. EDT). A Flight Readiness Review was conducted on August 28 and the launch vehicle, launch

Earth’s gravitational field observation

With all of the necessary components for the launch of the RapidEye satellite constellation currently waiting in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, nothing seems to be standing in the way of an August launch for the German company RapidEye AG. All five earth observation satellites will be sent into orbit on a DNEPR-1 launch vehicle, released into a

Over the past 50 years, satellites have been returning observations of the Earth’s air, land and water. Whilst traditionally measurements have been taken in isolation, a new approach seeks to produce integrated, accessible data that can inform more sustainable energy policies worldwide.

(Eindhoven, August 25, 2008). From today onwards anyone can have access to the actual state and yield of potatoes in a large part of Europe. Potato growth information is calculated from satellite based recordings by Basfood from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Interested parties choose themselves from which area they wish to acquire the information by selecting parcels of 25×25km from a map of Europe. The purchase price is € 500 per parcel, for which the buyer gets weekly the actual yield in kg per hectare from July until the end of October. This information is particularly interesting for trading parties and government services.

MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax-AVN) – The conversion launch vehicle Dnepr with five RapidEye earth probing satellites is to take off from the Baikonur launch pad, Kazakhstan, on Friday.

25 August (Xinhua) — China will, under a recent agreement, help Laos develop a telecommunications satellite and a ground station, and train relevant staff, Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported Monday. Under the agreement signed by Bountiem Phissamay, head of Laos’ National Authority for Science and Technology, last Friday in Laos, and inked earlier in China

Antrix Corp. Ltd, the commercial arm of India’s space agency, has won a pair of deals from Algeria and Italy to launch earth observation satellites next year

(22 August 2008. ESA PR 34-2008). The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth’s gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet – the geoid – with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will be placed

On August 17th 2008, Iran succesfully sent its satellite carrier vehicle Safir-1 (Envoy-1) into low earth orbit, thanks to which remote sensing, satellite telemetry, geometric information system technology, as well as remote and ground station data processing were tested. The event followed test launches of the Kavoshgar (Explorer) satellite carrier earlier this year. Safir-1 will

A British company that builds small satellites has opened U.S. operations in Douglas County and plans to employ up to 250 people over the next few years. About three-quarters of those employees would work for Surrey Satellite Technology US in the Denver area, doing engineering and satellite manufacturing work. The company has opened a small