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Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 mission to measure ocean's surface topography with high-precision (Image: NASA)
13 May 2015
New Copernicus Earth observation mission by ESA and Airbus Defence
Landslides identified by the NASA-USGS-Interagency Volunteer Earthquake Response Team appearing in yellow and by the British Geological Survey-Durham University-Earthquakes Without Frontiers team in pink (Image: Google/ICIMOD)
12 May 2015
International team to prevent hazards after Nepal earthquake
Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden from the International Space Station (Image: NASA)
12 May 2015
Africa starts using the potential of space technology
Cuba from space (Image: NASA)
11 May 2015
Cuba promotes use of satellite remote scanning and detecting
Flood affected areas will suffer under the loss of rain fall satellites (Image: United States Marine Corps)
8 May 2015
New study warns: loss of rainfall satellites will hamper flood management
The new Cube+ makes it easier evaluate satellite imagery (Image: NASA)
8 May 2015
New technology to analyse complex satellite data quickly and efficiently
Dharahara tower in Kathmandu before and after the earthquake (Image: DigitalGlobe)
7 May 2015
Volunteers mapped Nepal’s Earthquake within 48 hours
Imaging and geospatial technology as main focus of the IGTF 2015 taking place in Florida, USA (Image: NASA)
6 May 2015
Imaging and geospatial information highlighted at IGTF 2015
Spaced based data about the consistency of soil can help farmers make better decisions (Image: USDA-NRCS)
6 May 2015
Sharing data to improve soil research in Canada
The double satellite formation TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X will be one of the issues presented at the ISRSE-36 (Image: DLR)
5 May 2015
UN-SPIDER to participate in the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment

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