Imagery and Sensing

On Sunday, a volcano erupted in Guatemala killing at least 25 people and injuring hundreds, according to Reuters. The eruption of Volcan de Fuego, which translates to Volcano of Fire,...

The first imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-17 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) has made its public debut. The imagery of the Western Hemisphere was created using two...

A NASA instrument that will measure ozone and other key pollutants over North America is seeking proposals for hosting services. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, flying on a commercial...

NASA has definitized additional requirements under the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System contract with Raytheon of Aurora, Colorado. This cost-plus award fee modification will increase the contract by...

The first satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) has passed testing and is now operational. Launched last November as JPSS-1 and renamed NOAA-20 once it...

NASA has exercised options under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract for two additional Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecraft to be built for the National Oceanic and...

Esri, a provider of spatial analytics, has announced that it is releasing Sentinel-2 image services to all Esri users for no additional cost. Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation satellite that...

DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, has announced the commercial release of Geospatial Big Data (GBDX) Notebooks, allowing customers to easily extract valuable insight they want from DigitalGlobe’s GBDX platform. GBDX...

The first eight of 35 planned BeiDou-3 satellites have formed a functioning network, as first reported by Maritime Executive, and have a global positioning accuracy of five meters, according to...

Iceye, an Earth observation company providing synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, has announced $34 million Series B funding led by return investor True Ventures and supported by Draper Network VC funds...