Following sequestration and bitter budget wars in Washington NASA find itself in a difficult position. NASA has proposed a budget of $17.715 billion, down from $17.893B last year.…
I was recently reading the 2012 article by James R. Irons and colleagues describing the Landsat-8 mission (or Landsat Data Continuity Mission, LDCM, as it was then called)¹.…
The NASA Earth Observations updated their data archive with fresh NDVI-Datasets from January 2013 to June.
On Saturday, some villages near my hometown suffered heavy rains. Up to 100 l/m² arrived during the afternoon and evening in Kirchhasel and other places in central Thuringia.…
Sorry to talk about this important tool with a little delay. As I was lecturing at the university I was using the Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST) by…
It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted here, but I just found something I wanted to pass along. If you work with geospatial data, you are probably…
I’m always looking for good sources of free data, so I thought I would post a few here in case they were useful to others. The sources listed…
Looking Back Most people using GIS or remote sensing data came across the data obtained by the landsat satellite family. It all started with the Landsat 1 mission…
If you have been working in the space remote sensing community for any length of time you have almost certainly crossed paths with Landsat 5. After 29 years…
Some days ago NASA has released “Black Marble”, an image of the world by night, a combination of photos taken by a new satellite. Its name was chosen…