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Biomass is an Earth observing satellite planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2024 [2] on a Vega launch vehicle. [1] The mission will provide the first comprehensive measurements of global forest biomass. The mission is meant to last for five years, monitoring at least eight growth cycles in the worlds’ forests.
A second satellite dish was built and finished in 1988. In 1995, there were plans to invest an additional S$12,000,000 into installing 3 additional satellite dishes at the Bukit Timah Satellite Earth Station and the Seletar Teleport. See also. Singtel; Sentosa Satellite Earth Station; Seletar Teleport; References
The data was acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012 and then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet. The Suomi NPP satellite completed 312 orbits and gathered 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of the Earth's land surface.
NASA World Wind, USGS topographic maps and several satellite and aerial image datasets, the first popular virtual globe along with Google Earth. World Wind is open-source software . NORC is a street view web service for Central and Eastern Europe. OpenWebGlobe, a virtual globe SDK written in JavaScript using WebGL.
Titan is one of the seven gravitationally rounded moons of Saturn and the second-most distant among them. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan is 50% larger (in diameter) than Earth's Moon and 80% more massive. It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and is larger than Mercury, but only 40% ...
Aura ( EOS CH-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. [2] It is the third major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) following on Terra (launched 1999) and Aqua (launched 2002). Aura follows on from the Upper Atmosphere Research ...
DigitalGlobe, Inc. DigitalGlobe was an American commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on 14 May 2009, selling 14.7 million shares at US$19.00 each to raise US$279 million in capital.
Total assets. US$789.95 million (2007) [2] Total equity. US$216.92 million (2007) [2] Number of employees. 410 (2008) [2] GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation, or ORBIMAGE) was an American commercial satellite imagery company based in Herndon, Virginia. [3] GeoEye was merged into the DigitalGlobe corporation on January 29, 2013.