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 ...

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 ...

News about a dynamic emerging global environmental and economic initiative was reported last month at the 11 th World Health Congress, hosted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations, and ...

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 ...

Washington, DC — Effort is part of Global Earth Observation System of Systems The Bush administration announced a plan January 14 to expand U.S. tsunami detection and warning capabilities in the ...

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 ...

Davina Jackson is an honorary life member of the International Society for Digital Earth and co-edited the Digital City chapter of the DE Manual. She edited the GEO-sponsored report D_City: Digital ...

The large quantities of data required in energy systems analysis are collected within the individual research projects. Frequently, these data are collected separately in each project without being ...