As we said in a last year’s post and another post about WorldView-3 replacing the GeoEye-2 sensor in launch priority, the new sensor is all about breaking new ground. The current WorldView-3 sensor launched on August 31st, 2014, is a massive technological achievement as evident from following sample images released by DigitalGlobe. Please note that these images… Continue reading 31cm WorldView-3 Sends First Crisp Images
Barely half an hour after a major earthquake on 23rd September, people of the Pakistani coastal town of Gwadar had another jolt when they saw a new island emerge in the sea, just over a kilometre from the shore. This island is made of sea mud. The mud island was created due to decompression of… Continue reading Pléiades Measures Earthquake born Island in Pakistan
The solar array in Seville, Spain looks a bit like a giant human eye from space. On closer examination, the center of the eye features a concrete solar tower that stands forty stories high. It is ringed by 2,650 mirrors that blast scorching rays of sunlight to the tower, which stores the heat and converts… Continue reading Image of the Day : Gemasolar Plant, Spain
On Feb 15 early morning, a meteor darted across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountain range. The fireball exploded near Chelyabinsk, injuring hundreds of people, creating a sonic boom and damaging hundreds of buildings and causing injuries to thousands of people. The injuries were mainly from the falling glass and other building material taken apart… Continue reading Meteor Strike over Russia: Was it the first?
India has a vast amount of geospatial information generated through various topographic surveys, geological surveys, soil surveys, cadastral surveys, various natural resources information generated with the use of the remotely sensed imagery. Encapsulating these maps and images into a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is expected to provide information transparency and sharing. One of the… Continue reading SATPALDA Participates in NSDI 12
Launched on December 1st , 2012 from Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, Pléiades 1B is the second high resolution satellite to join the Astrium constellation. Pléiades 1B will provide 50-centimeter (cm) panchromatic and 2-meter (m) 4-band multispectral (i.e. blue, green, red and near-infrared) products with the widest footprint of any high resolution satellite at… Continue reading Pléiades 1B Starts operations, First image in
“The earth has music for those who listen.” ? George Santayana Beauty of nature could not have been put in more apt words than this Spanish philosopher and writer. But some natural sights are too overtly beautiful to even require such aesthetic natural perception. Niagara Falls on the border of Canada and the USA is… Continue reading Image of the Day : Niagara Falls
This image of South Qatar shows how the ebb and flow of the tide can create some unusual formations. Here, water and sand conjure up the shape and color of a tree as the tide swirls into the Persian Gulf. Qatar, an Arab Emirate in the Middle East, is one of the region’s wealthiest states… Continue reading Satellite image of Khor al Adaid, South Qatar
A recent UN report reveals the unprecedented decline in global biodiversity. About one million of the planet's eight million species are threatened with extinction by humans. IPBES Report Said: Main Drivers of Species Loss: Shrinking habitat Exploitation of natural resources Climate change and pollution A comparison: Human Awareness and Technology in Action This is… Continue reading Endangered Species And Technology At Rescue
"Tree makes one million matchsticks, but one match-stick can burn one million trees" Shifting Cultivation This is a system of farming where a piece of land is cleared followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility. Once the land becomes inadequate for crop production, it is left to be… Continue reading Shifting Cultivation and Geospatial Technology