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August 11, 2011
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Technology Plays Important Role to Improve the Wine Industry
Aurora, CO (SPX) Aug 11, 2011
Great wines come from combining site selection with appropriate viticulture and winemaking skills and style. But now geographic information systems (GIS) technology plays an important role in the wine industry. GIS technology is used to create spatial data (maps) that provide valuable information to differentiate and add value to the wine products. GIS technology is one of the most widely used technologies across the globe. And while the role GIS plays in some industries are obvious, the wine indu ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

Smoke from Virginia Lateral West Fire
The GOES-13 satellite captured a visible image of the thick brown smoke streaming from the Lateral West Fire burning in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (GDSBWR) in southeastern Virgi ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Critical Milestone Reached for 2012 Landsat Mission
The Operational Land Imager (OLI), built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo., has been approved by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for shipment to Orbital Sciences Corporation, ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

China to launch civil survey satellite late this year
China will put into space a high-definition civil survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, at the end of this year, said an official of the National Administration of Surveying, Mappi ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare
On August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to ... more
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GPS NEWS

Raytheon Wins Navy GPS Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service Contract
Raytheon has been awarded a $32.2 million U.S. Navy contract for the Global Positioning System-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service program for Navy surface and subsurface platforms. ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Completes First Free-Flight Test
The U.S. Navy completed the first free-flight test of Raytheon's Joint Standoff Weapon C-1, bringing the world's only net-enabled standoff weapon with moving maritime target capability closer to ini ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Scientists find eruption at undersea volcano after forecasting the event
A team of scientists just discovered a new eruption of Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast - and one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts i ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Software on the Fly
Much of the activity that enables the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) to reach its scientific goals happens behind the scenes. In this latest post I'm going to talk a bit about the software gl ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs In Antarctica
A NASA scientist and her colleagues were able to observe for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away. Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere spec ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NPP Satellite Completes Comprehensive Testing
by Cynthia M O'Carroll for Goddard Space Flight Center The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has successfully completed its ... more
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FAST TRACK

Study shows how to eliminate motion sickness on tilting trains
An international team of researchers led by scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that motion sickness on tilting trains can be essentially eliminated by adjusting the timing of wh ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

The Physics of Crop Circles
In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, takes a serious, objective look at a topic that critics might claim ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

La Ninas distant effects in East Africa
For 20 000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Nino Southern Oscillation) known as El Nino/La Nina. Du ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

First of Many Miniaturized Helio Instruments For WINCS To be Delivered
More than a decade ago, technologist Fred Herrero realized that to truly understand the ever-changing dynamics of Earth's upper atmosphere, he would need an armada of satellites gathering simultaneo ... more
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MILTECH

US Army Selects SMSS Autonomous Vehicle for Afghanistan Deployment
The U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force, through the Robotics Technology Consortium, selected the Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) to deploy to Afghanistan for a first-of-i ... more
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GPS NEWS

S. Korea to fine Apple over tracking feature
South Korea's telecoms regulator said Wednesday that it would fine the Korean unit of US technology giant Apple over an iPhone feature that can track the location of users. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Satellite innovators launch smartphone Space App competition
Surrey experts in space technology have launched a Facebook competition challenging the British public to develop innovative applications that will run on its smartphone-powered satellite due for la ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia to carry out 3 space launches in August
Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Friday it is planning to launch two satellites and a space freighter next month. The Express-AM4 satellite will be launched on August 18 on board a Prot ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought
Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in decades. The arid conditions are contributing to famines that the U.S. Department of State says are a ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Tropical Storm Muifa appears huge on NASA infrared imagery
The width of an image from the AIRS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite is about 1700 km (1056 miles), and the clouds and thunderstorms associate with Tropical Storm Muifa take up that en ... more
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FARM NEWS

Cows clock-in for monitored mealtimes
Electronic ear tags are being used to provide an early warning system that will help farmers identify sick animals within a herd. The new system, being trialled by scientists at Newcastle Univ ... more
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GPS NEWS

Toucans wearing GPS backpacks help Smithsonian scientists study seed dispersal
Nutmeg-loving toucans wearing GPS transmitters recently helped a team of scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama address an age-old problem in plant ecology: accurately e ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA AIRS Movies Show Evolution of US 2011 Heat Wave
The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations, killed dozens and seen nearly half of all Americans under heat advisories at its peak. ... more
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China launches navigation satellite: Xinhua
China launched its ninth navigation satellite on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing sources at the launch centre. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Using Satellites for Human and Environmental Security Needs
Can satellites attuned to curbing human rights violations become an instrument for stopping genocide here on Earth? An opinion editorial asks this question and more in the Summer 2011 issue of ... more
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GPS NEWS

China to launch 9th orbiter for indigenous global navigation network
China will launch the ninth orbiter into space in "coming days" as part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network. The "Beidou," or Compass, navigation satellite will be l ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves
An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice s ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Horn of Africa drought seen from space
Drought in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti is pushing tens of thousands of people from their homes as millions face food insecurity in a crisis visible from space. ESA's SMOS satellite shows t ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

TerraSAR-X image of the month - Volcanic eruption in Chile
The crater of the Chilean volcano Puyehue displays a striking, circular outline in this image from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite - ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Aura Detects Pollution in the Great Lakes Region
Fires throughout Ontario are generating pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite in the Great Lakes region. The fires have also forced thousands of residents to evacuate ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Final Nanosatellite Launched from Space Shuttle Atlantis
The final satellite launched in the 30-year lifetime of the shuttle program, the latest in a series of nanosatellites built by The Aerospace Corporation with support from the Space and Missile Syste ... more
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