A new and improved version of the GEOSS web portal is ready to provide users with faster, more intuitive access to the ever-growing wealth of diverse Earth observation resources worldwide. The portal ...

An ambitious effort to coordinate the environmental remote-sensing activities of some 60 nations will help prevent wasteful expenditures on activities ranging from environmental protection and ...

As part of the Global Space Agenda series, the Human Space Exploration Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted NOAA Administratior, Conrad Lautenbacher to discuss ...

The volume of data acquired by more than 50 Earth Observation satellites is increasing at an exponential rate and is providing unprecedented synoptic views of our planet. Because these satellites ...

Rosemont, IL. GEOSS—the Global Earth Observation System of Systems—needs your help. That’s the message delivered to Sensors Expo participants by Gregory W. Withee, senior adviser to the office of the ...

Delegates from 44 nations and 26 international groups agreed this weekend to form a global environmental observation system by 2014, to be called — in what we can only assume is a tribute to Douglas ...

An ambitious international project to unite the planet's Earth-observing systems is under way. But getting everyone on board is no easy task, says Naomi Lubick. Earth has no shortage of spies — ...

Ministers from some 60 nations have signed up to a ten-year plan to build a unified, global Earth observation system. The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) will work with existing ...

The PRISMA mission detects hot spot signals from space in a night image ...

Harnessing the power of open data to improve the quality of life of people everywhere. That is the renewed commitment made by 77 organizations and 90 nations during the Group on Earth Observations ...