Original Articles

Google, Microsoft and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

People can now easily visualize what their next trip or hike will look like; they can readily combine EO data with other kinds of geographic data ; and they can easily save the views they have constructed and send them to other users. However, geospatial technologies are more complex than most people realize.

George Percivall, posted on June 10th, 2008
Articles, Earth Observation, Technology |

Earth Observation - The French Connection to GEOSS

Whether for surface imagery, altimetry, studies of aerosols and clouds or recording the Earth’s magnetic field, satellites permit a global view of our Earth and in combination with more precise local in situ measurements offer enormous potential in understanding how the Earth system works from the planet’s core out to the stratosphere, helping us to manage our Earth.

Benoit Boissin, posted on June 3rd, 2008
Articles, Earth Observation, Technology |

Noctilucent Cloud by The Chromatics

It’s not often one has an opportunity to hear both noctilucent cloud and mesospheric in the same song, but the highly educational and always entertaining Chromatics have provided us an opportunity to do so.

Kyla Hanington, posted on April 29th, 2008
Articles, Reviews |

Snapshots of Spring: Earth Day Photo Contest Challenges Middle School Students to Take Pictures of Their Local Environment

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies’ annual photo contest for U.S. students grades 5-8 offers students a path to expanded knowledge of their surrounding environments.

Dan Stillman, posted on April 15th, 2008
Articles, Education |

Building Capacity For Using Earth Observations

Technology has made it possible to interlink the world’s observation systems into one “interoperable” Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS. This flexible and distributed network of content providers will greatly improve the quantity and quality of the Earth observations needed for addressing the risks of global environmental change.

Marta Angoloti & Alan Edwards , posted on April 15th, 2008
Articles, Earth Observation, ICEO/GEO/GEOSS |

A Global Revolution In Earth Management

Climate change, the depletion of natural resources, the emergence of new diseases, and the loss of biological diversity are amongst some of the most serious and complex challenges facing the human race today. Addressing these threats to our common home will require effective national policies plus international collaboration on a grand scale.

Guoguang Zheng, Conrad Lautenbacher, Philemon Mjwara & Zoran Stancic , posted on April 15th, 2008
Articles, Earth Observation, ICEO/GEO/GEOSS, OpEd |

Observations to support predictions of sea level “CReSIS” contribution toward understanding the term glacial speed

Accurate prediction of sea level is arguably one of the most important societal goals facing the research community. Combining cutting-edge technologies with sustained observations to understand processes and improve numerical models will be required to address the issue of future ice-sheet changes and impacts on global sea level.