Featured Article
 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency GeoINT Online Communities (NGA) website is focused on Global Food Security and allows online, on-demand discovery of and access to geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) content, services, expertise, and support. It evolved from a food shortage crisis in Iraq during the 2007–08 growing season, and the partnership between NGA and the United States Department of Agriculture detected an impending drought early enough for Iraqi government officials to avert a famine.
Dr. Shawana P. Johnson, posted on
July 23rd, 2010
Agriculture, Earth Observation, Featured Article, Technology
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A Letter From Our Editor
 Editor-in-Chief Paul Racette shares his wonder of the meaning of Earthzine’s tagline, Fostering Earth Observation and Global Awareness. It seems that fostering Earth observation, fosters global awareness for it is through observation that we become aware.
Paul Racette, posted on
July 25th, 2010
Earth Observation, Letters, OpEd
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 The European Commission sponsored project “Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging” (GEOBENE) has developed methodologies and analytical tools to assess the societal benefit areas (SBAs) of GEO in the domains of: Disasters, Health, Energy, Climate, Water, Weather, Ecosystems, Agriculture and Biodiversity. This article presents several of these overarching methodologies as a contribution to the ongoing effort to improve GEOSS, and looks to the future via the EuroGEOSS Project.
McCallum et al., posted on
July 12th, 2010
Articles, Earth Observation, Economy, GEOSS/ICEO News
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 Racing yachts and their competitive sailors are the laboratories and citizen scientists being tapped to collect and validate data from the ocean-atmosphere interface for scientific projects by The OceanoScientific® Programme. In the past, racing yachts have been equipped with scientific sensors, but the possibilities were always very limited because of the competition and onboard conditions. In 2006, the French Sailing Federation (FFVoile) launched the SolOceans race, which from the beginning combined the sportive aspects of a sailing race in the Southern Ocean with the scientific need for data. Read about it here.
M. Kramp, et al., posted on
July 5th, 2010
Articles, Earth Observation, Oceans, Technology
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 The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, hurricane and tsunami disasters and ocean ‘health’ issues including ocean acidification highlight the importance of ocean observing systems. The authors provide overview current European (EuroSITES) and international (OceanSITES) initiatives and the growing need for high quality, high resolution ocean datasets to feed models and produce products and services to society.
Kate Larkin, posted on
June 26th, 2010
Articles, Climate, Earth Observation, Ecosystems, GEOSS/ICEO News, Oceans, Water
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 This interactive, web-based toolkit was created by the Biophysical Remote Sensing Group at the University of Queensland to enable technicians, scientists and managers to make the most appropriate selection of data and a processing approach to monitor, model and manage marine, terrestrial and atmospheric environments with data that are derived from airborne and satellite imaging systems.
Chris Roelfsema, posted on
June 20th, 2010
Articles, Biodiversity, Climate, Disasters, Earth Observation, Ecosystems, Oceans, Technology, Water, Weather
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 ESA and EUMETSAT recently organised a workshop in Frascati, Italy (May 2010) for more than 50 experts on volcanic ash from around the world to take stock of what has been learned about ash cloud detection, monitoring and prediction, and identify future opportunities. The workshop was convened following the recent ash clouds from Iceland’s Eyjafjälla volcano that grounded hundreds of flights across Europe causing travel chaos and costing the European airline industry billions of Euros.
Claus Zehner and Neil Fletcher, posted on
June 4th, 2010
Articles, Disasters, Earth Observation
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Announcements
 The IEEE Standards Association announces a call for participation for the IEEE P1595(TM) Working Group to help develop new standards for quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emission credits from small hydro and wind power projects and for grid baseline conditions.
Tom Baumann, posted on
July 23rd, 2010
Announcements, Energy
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Originally Published by TruthoutThe nation’s farmers could face severe restrictions on the use of pesticides as environmentalists want the courts to force federal regulators to protect endangered species from the ill effects of agricultural chemicals.
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July 30th, 2010
Agriculture, Health
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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July 30th, 2010
Disasters, Earth Observation
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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July 29th, 2010
Disasters, Earth Observation
Originally Published by BBC News – Science & Environment
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July 29th, 2010
Biodiversity
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July 28th, 2010
Disasters, Energy
Originally Published by NY Times
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July 28th, 2010
Biodiversity
Originally Published by ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
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July 27th, 2010
Health, Technology
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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July 27th, 2010
Earth Observation, Weather
Originally Published by Mother Jones
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July 26th, 2010
Climate, Politics
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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July 26th, 2010
Earth Observation, Weather
Originally Published by New Scientist – Environment
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July 25th, 2010
Biodiversity
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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July 25th, 2010
Earth Observation
Originally Published by Earth Today
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July 24th, 2010
Earth Observation, Ecosystems
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