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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...