“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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
Some hard to believe facts about earth's water- 97 % – Found in oceans 2% – In frozen form (glaciers and ice caps) Less than 1% – fresh water and a tiny fraction of water exists as water vapour in our atmosphere Main Issues With Oceans A)Over Fishing Commercial fishing is among the biggest trades… Continue reading Geospatial Data for Ocean Ecosystem
A series of devastating floods in China during July-November 1931 was one of the most lethal natural disaster of 20th century. Estimates of the total death toll range between 1,000,000–4,000,000. The Great Peruvian earthquake occurred on 31 May 1970 off the coast of Peru in the Pacific Ocean is among the most catastrophic natural disaster.… Continue reading Geospatial Data For Disaster Management
Scientist investigate that which already is, Engineers create that which has never been. … Continue reading Technology For Modern Day Engineering