Hurricane Ian left an extraordinarily broad path of destruction across much of South Florida. That was evident in reports from the ground, but it also shows up in satellite data. Using a new method, ...

Zhe Zhu receives funding from the USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team Program for Toward Near Real-time Monitoring and Characterization of Landsat Surface Change for the Conterminous US (140G0119C0008) Su ...

A Japanese satellite equipped with a sharp-eyed synthetic aperture radar launched Saturday on a mission to map the globe every two weeks, helping authorities respond to natural disasters, track ...

China today successfully launched its first high resolution, stereoscopic mapping satellite for accurate surveys of its land resources. BEIJING: China today successfully launched its first high ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. This article is more than 5 years old. Satellite imagery has been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the most fascinating themes of the emerging digital world is the ...

Smartphones have disrupted transportation, payments and communication. But the underlying technology has tangentially changed a completely different sector: satellites. The advances made in ...

Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view. In February 2013, imagery specialist Charlie Loyd was looking for a job. He'd been working on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As companies with Internet mapping portals such as Yahoo and Google struggle to one-up each other ...

A satellite that will be the first to comprehensively monitor wind around the globe is finally ready to fly. After nearly two decades in the planning, the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Aeolus ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Aeolus satellite soared into space on 22 August for a three-year mission to monitor wind around the globe. Aeolus is the world’s first wind-mapping satellite, and ...