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GPS 'improves early tsunami alerts'
BBC | 17 May 2013
GPS data could provide faster and more accurate early warning systems for tsunamis, a German team of scientists suggest.

Natural Hazard | Remote Sensing

AAAS leverages innovative technique to confirm oil slicks in Turkmenistan
EurekAlert | 07 May 2013
Analysis by the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) confirms the release of oil into the waters of the Caspian Sea off Turkmenistan, and demonstrates an innovative new use of publicly available imaging technology.

Accidents and Spills | Remote Sensing

Earliest satellite ice maps produced
BBC | 24 Apr 2013
The earliest satellite maps of Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice have been assembled by scientists, showing the floes around the White Continent back in the 1960s were probably as extensive as they are now.

Arctic Ocean | Southern Ocean | Remote Sensing | Sea Ice

CSTARS awarded $16.5 million over 3 years by Office of Naval Research
EurekAlert | 19 Mar 2013
The University of Miami's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing has been awarded a $16.5 million contract by the Office of Naval Research to continue collecting, processing and disseminating data from global Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite systems.

Remote Sensing | Research

NASA's Aquarius sees salty shifts
EurekAlert | 27 Feb 2013
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The colorful images chronicle the seasonal stirrings of our salty world. Changes in ocean salinity patterns are revealed by the first full year of surface salinity data captured by NASA's Aquarius instrument.

Remote Sensing | Research

European satellite confirms UW numbers: Arctic Ocean is on thin ice
EurekAlert | 13 Feb 2013
(University of Washington) Satellite observations confirm a University of Washington model that for the past three years found accelerating declines in the volume of Arctic sea ice.

Arctic Ocean | Polar Region | Remote Sensing | Sea Ice

Cryosat observes big Arctic ice loss
BBC | 13 Feb 2013
Europe's Cryosat spacecraft observes a deep reduction in the volume of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean in autumn months.

Arctic Ocean | Polar Region | Remote Sensing | Sea Ice

Clearest evidence yet of polar ice losses
EurekAlert | 29 Nov 2012
(University of Leeds) The Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise has confirmed that both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice.

Climate Change | Remote Sensing | Sea Level Rise

Sea-level rise finally quantified
BBC | 29 Nov 2012
An international effort of more than 20 polar research groups finally settles the question of how much polar ice melting has added to global sea levels.

Climate Change | Remote Sensing | Sea Level Rise

Barbara Block: Use apps to save the great white shark
Guardian Unlimited | 18 Nov 2012
tMarine biologist Barbara Block is basedat Stanford University, California, and has pioneered techniques for tracking fish electronically. In the 1990s, she helped set up the programme Topp: Tagging of Pacific Predators. Thousands of large sea creatures, including white sharks and turtles, were fitted with monitors that beamed data about their movements to satellites.

Fish | Remote Sensing | Research

New understanding of Antarctic's weight-loss
EurekAlert | 25 Oct 2012
(Newcastle University) Scientists find present sea level rise is happening with apparently very little contribution from Antarctica as a whole.

Southern Ocean | Polar Region | Remote Sensing | Sea Level Rise

WWF urges governments to adopt mandatory AIS installation
fishupdate.com | 01 Oct 2012
WWF launched its Smart Fishing Initiative last week – a simple way of? using satellite data to monitor global fisheries activities and curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing practices.

Fisheries | Remote Sensing

WWF: new approach to IUU fishing
World Fishing | 26 Sep 2012
WWF's Smart Fishing Initiative has presented a new, simple, effective and inexpensive way to use satellite data to monitor global fisheries activities and curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Fisheries | Marine Management | Remote Sensing

Satellites trace sea level change
BBC | 24 Sep 2012
A major reassessment of 18 years of satellite observations provides a new, more detailed view of the changes in ocean height around the world.

Remote Sensing | Research | Sea Level Rise

Tracking Cuban Sea Turtles Like Never Before
The Ocean Foundation | 28 Aug 2012
On August 2nd, 2012, the first of five satellite tags was deployed on the carapace of a nesting green turtle at Guanahacabibes National Park and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, located on the westernmost tip of Cuba. Named Harriet, this turtle along with its four brethren, is being tracked from space for the first time.

Atlantic Ocean | Conservation | Remote Sensing | Research

Arctic ice set to hit record low
BBC | 21 Aug 2012
Arctic sea ice looks set to reach a record low by the end of the month, according to satellite data released by US researchers.

Arctic Ocean | Remote Sensing | Sea Ice

Consortium wins UK fisheries VMS tender
World Fishing | 15 Aug 2012
A UK fisheries vessel monitoring system (VMS) tender has been awarded to a consortium including UK satellite communications expert, AST Marine Sciences Ltd (ASR MSL) and Slovenia's EMA Group, the satellite tracking systems research and development specialist.

Fisheries | Remote Sensing

Sea ice disappearing faster than predicted
New Zealand Herald | 13 Aug 2012
Sea ice in the Arctic is disappearing at a far greater rate than previously expected, according to data from a satellite launched to study the thickness of Earth's polar caps.

Arctic Ocean | Remote Sensing | Sea Ice

Arctic sea ice 'melting faster'
BBC | 13 Aug 2012
Arctic sea ice is vanishing much faster than generally expected, according to preliminary data from the Cryosat spacecraft.

Arctic Ocean | Climate Change | Remote Sensing | Sea Ice

SMOS satellite measurements improve as ground radars switch off
EurekAlert | 04 Jul 2012
(European Space Agency) Over a dozen radio signals that have hindered data collection on ESA's SMOS water mission have been switched off. The effort also benefits satellites such as NASA's Aquarius mission, which measures ocean salinity at the same frequency.

Remote Sensing | Research

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