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October 6, 2016
Report on 2016 UNCOPUOS Meeting
For people who care about space-based Earth observation, this is a good time to pay attention to the United…
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March 17, 2016
GEO Moves Forward
The Mexico City Declaration adopted at the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Ministerial Summit in November 2015 promises a…
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December 3, 2015
Disaster Risk Resilience
According to 2014 figures of The World Bank, at least five countries in Central America have suffered natural disasters...
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August 5, 2015
Flood Modeling
The international disaster management community is paying increasing attention to the role of space-derived information in the full cycle…
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June 23, 2015
International Cooperation in Earth Observations
Early last year, the group on earth observations (GEO) renewed its 10-year mandate as ministers from all over the…
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May 31, 2015
Landsat & Google Earth Engine Prove Valuable to Scientific Community
How things have changed since Landsats 4 & 5 were launched in the early 1980s, about the time I…
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October 4, 2014
Building Geospatial Capacity in Mesoamerica
Earth Observation analysts from developing countries face several daunting challenges in pursuing their chosen profession. They have very limited…
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July 29, 2014
Radio Frequency Interference
Over the last several years, the long-term sustainability of the space environment has been a growing concern for the…
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May 20, 2014
Beyond Disaster Response
From their vantage point in orbit, earth observation satellites offer a unique perspective in the aftermath of a natural…
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February 1, 2014
Building an Earth Observation Network
The lush tropical landscape of the state of Chiapas, Mexico, seems an unlikely place to encounter an institution focused…