Latest Remote sensing Stories

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Google Street View has allowed users to travel the roads of the world, from the Red Square in Moscow to the Las Vegas Strip, and now the online resource is letting viewers go where no car has gone before—the Great Barrier Reef. Using images taken by the Caitlin Seaview Survey team and their submersible panoramic cameras, Google now allows users to click along a path that traces the reef and displays 360-degree images of turtles,...

DAT/EM Systems International has hired Steven D. Hamilton as an Account Manager in June 2012. Hamilton brings over 30 years of knowledge in the geospatial profession to DAT/EM and has had the opportunity to gain experience across a broad spectrum of activities related to mapping, remote sensing, precision agriculture and GPS applications. As a graduate student working as a camera and sensor operator at the Center for Remote Sensing at Michigan State University, Hamilton started a career...

REDLANDS, Calif., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The touchstone for this year's Esri Electric and Gas GIS Conference is Changing the Discussion. The event, scheduled for October 7-10 in Salt Lake City, Utah, caters to utility professionals who want to take advantage of technological advances such as lidar, spatial analytics, big data management, and ArcGIS Online. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110425/LA88950LOGO) "Utility professionals talk all the time about...

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CartoPac® International, a leading supplier of Esri-based field asset data collection and utilization solutions, has announced two key management changes. Carl Lee is stepping into the role of Chief Executive Officer. His top-level management experience is very extensive and includes serving as CFO and CEO of several high-tech companies. He was a Management Consulting Partner at Ernst & Young where his focus was emerging and...

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brandywine Photonics LLC, a U.S. based manufacturer of spectrometers for hyperspectral remote sensing applications and CMOS image sensors, is proud to announce a new distributor for their products in Australia and New Zealand, Applied Infrared Sensing. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120820/PH59974LOGO) "Australia represents a strong growth market in the mineral exploration and environmental remote sensing arenas," says Mr....

REDLANDS, Calif., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolfgang Hall, a longtime transportation and logistics professional and former business development manager of the solutions group at Esri, has been appointed as Esri's global industry solution manager for logistics and supply chain management. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110425/LA88950LOGO) With more than 20 years of transportation and logistics systems experience, Hall brings a wealth of private- and public-sector...

The largest ever conference on geoscience and remote sensing comes to an end after a week of exchanging ideas, identifying research trends and discussing the latest developments in observation techniques. This year’s International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS 2012 – was held in Munich, Germany. Jointly organised by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the DLR German Aerospace Center and ESA, IGARSS saw more than 2600 participants from 67 countries...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new NASA supercomputer will help take the space agency into a new chapter of discovery through enhanced Landsat observations. NASA is making the NEX facility available to the research community for further research and development after extensive development and testing. The new facility is a virtual laboratory that will allow scientists to tackle Earth science challenges with global high-resolution satellite observations....

NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX). This new facility is a virtual laboratory that will allow scientists to tackle global Earth science challenges with global high-resolution satellite observations. After extensive development and testing, NASA is making the NEX facility available to the research community for further research...

World-class scientists, engineers and educators have gathered in Munich, Germany, this week to discuss the latest developments in remote sensing and exchange ideas with other members of the international scientific community. The 32nd annual International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS – is being held this week. With over 2400 participants, it is the largest IGARSS since the annual conference began 31 years ago. At the plenary session on Monday morning,...