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Mapping Japan's Changed Landscape From SpaceParis, France (ESA) Mar 17, 2011 Following the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March, satellite imagery has been vital in providing a clear picture of the extent of devastation to aid the relief effort now underway. In response to this event, which turned out to be the biggest earthquake Japan has suffered in living memory, the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' was triggered by the Cabinet Office of Japan the same day the earthquake struck. As a result, satellite images from several space ... read more |
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  DLR Center Takes Over Operation Of The Swedish PRISMA Satellite Mission On 15 March 2011, the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen took over operation of the Swedish PRISMA satellite mission. The Swedish Space Corporat ... more | .. |
 National Flooding Exercise Hones Use Of Satellites To Improve Disaster Mitigation Last week a team of space experts led by British company DMCii participated in a national flooding exercise, "Exercise Watermark", to determine how satellite imagery, satellite communications and sa ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellites Show Towering Thunderstorms NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites are providing data to scientists about the Southern Atlantic Ocean Sub-tropical Storm Arani, a rare occurrence in the southern ocean. Rainfall data and cloud top temp ... more | .. | ||
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 NASA Satellite Sees Area Affected By Japan Tsunami A new before-and-after image pair from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a region of Japan's northeastern coast, ... more | .. |
 TRMM Satellite Reveals Flooding Rains From Massive East Coast Storm The massive rain storm that stretched from New York to Florida last week dropped some record rainfall and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured that rainfall from spac ... more | .. |
  N. Korea rejects Seoul's plea to stop jamming signals North Korea rejected South Korea's plea on Tuesday to stop beaming signals aimed at disturbing Seoul's military and mobile communications, an official said. ... more | .. |
  Seoul urges Pyongyang to stop jamming South Korea on Tuesday urged communist North Korea to stop disturbing its military and mobile communications, calling alleged jamming attempts "unacceptable." ... more |
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 DLR Releases Satellite Images Of Japanese Disaster Area After the severe earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' was activated on the morning of the 11 March 2011. All participating institutions were asked t ... more | .. |
 NASA Images Tsunami Impact Across Northeastern Japan The extent of inundation from the destructive and deadly tsunami triggered by the March 11, 2011, magnitude 8.9 earthquake centered off Japan's northeastern coast about 130 kilometers (82 miles) eas ... more | .. |
  Arianespace Moves To New Launcher Designation For Ariane, Soyuz And Vega The launcher components for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 arrived this week in French Guiana, marking the first step in preparations for a heavy-lift flight with the ST-2 and GSAT-8 t ... more | .. |
 Rayonier's GIS Strengthens Asset Management Capability Rayonier signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri that enables the international forest products company to improve land management of its 2.4 million acres of sustainably managed fore ... more |
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  Quake moved Japan by 8 feet: USGS Japan's recent massive earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, appears to have moved the island by about eight feet (2.4 meters), the US Geological Survey said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 SSTL's European GNSS Payload Passes Design Review Payloads being delivered by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for Europe's future satellite navigation system have passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR), having proved to a panel including ... more | .. |
 Space Team Improves GPS Capability For Warfighters Joint force warfighters around the globe will soon be able to assess real-time and future GPS accuracy, both where they are and where they're going, with a new capability developed by the 2nd Space ... more | .. |
 OSI Geospatial to supply New Zealand navy OSI Geospatial signed a $2 million contract with Siemens to provide an Integrated Bridge System for the New Zealand navy's frigate Platform System Upgrade Program. ... more |
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 New TomTom PRO 7150 Delivers Improved Efficiency For Businesses TomTom has unveiled a new navigation device for the North American market designed for businesses to deliver clear bottom-line benefits. The PRO 7150 from TomTom Business Solutions, the business uni ... more | .. |
 MapMyFITNESS To Attend 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival MapMyFITNESS has announced that it will attend and exhibit at the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival. The company aims to engage festival participants and demonstrate the ways that web and mobile techno ... more | .. |
 Garmin Announces The G1000H For Helicopters Garmin International has announced the G1000H, an all-glass avionics system designed specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market. The G1000H provides important flight data - flight instrument ... more | .. |
 New Marine And Coastal Geospatial Data Available Astrium GEO-Information Services has introduced new marine and coastal geospatial data that is now downloadable from its www.geostore.com store. The new data includes the Admiralty Raster Charts, an ... more |
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 Complementary Technology Could Provide Solution To Our GPS Vulnerability The GNSS Interference, Detection and Monitoring Conference 2011 follows Tuesday's Royal Academy of Engineering report that set out the risks of GPS disruption from solar storms or illegal jamming an ... more | .. |
 Coalition To Save Our GPS Launched Representatives from a wide variety of industries and companies have announced that they have joined together to form the "Coalition to Save Our GPS" to resolve a serious threat to the Global Positi ... more | .. |
 Can Bhuvan Give Google Earth A Run For Its Money Google Earth has competition at hand. Bhuvan, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) answer to the Google application, is snapping at its heels. However, Bhuvan, a satellite mapping tool and th ... more | .. |
 NASA And Other Satellites Keeping Busy With This Week's Severe Weather Satellites have been busy this week covering severe weather across the U.S. Today, the GOES-13 satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the huge stretch of clouds associated with a h ... more |
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  Excalibur: Turning 'Artillery Cannon Into A Sniper Rifle' A lot can happen during the course of a phone call. On Jan. 14, 2005, Tom Coradeschi placed a phone call to Robert Pinto, triggering a conversation that would give impetus to a revolutionary advance ... more | .. |
 Annual Report To Baltimore County By AutoReturn Shows Solid Results Issuing its first annual report to Baltimore County since it was selected for logistics and towing management services, AutoReturn reported an increase in towed cars, improved efficiencies for the C ... more | .. |
 S. Korea accuses N. Korea over communications attack North Korea is thought to have beamed signals from two locations to try to jam military communications in South Korea but the attempt failed, Seoul's defence minister said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 North Korea jams South's guided missiles Seoul has accused North Korea of using sophisticated jamming systems to block South Korean military signals and disrupt its guided missiles. ... more |
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 NASA Warns Ice Melt Speeding Up The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study - the longest to date of changes in polar ic ... more | .. |
 Exacter Mobile Technology Stops Insulator Flashover Exacter has enhanced their EXACTER Outage-Avoidance System technology to identify and locate an impending insulator flashover on overhead lines. "Before a flashover causes a circuit outage, an insul ... more | .. |
 Fred Meyer Stores And ECOtality To Install Blink EV Charging Stations ECOtality has announced the company's partnership with food retail chain Fred Meyer. Fred Meyer will install ECOtality's Blink Level 2 Electric Vehicle (EV) Commercial Pedestal Charging Station at s ... more | .. |
 Skyhook's Location To Be Embedded In Next Gen Portable Entertainment System Skyhook has announced that Skyhook's Core Engine will be embedded in the next generation portable entertainment system from Sony Computer Entertainment. NGP, which will make its debut at the end of ... more |
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