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Recent And Upcoming Missions And Data

QuickBird mission ends

March 09, 2015

The QuickBird mission ended on 27 January,2015. During its 13 year of service it orbited the Earth over 70,000 times capturing 636 million square kilometers of high resolution imagery of the Earth…

30m SRTM data released globally.

March 08, 2015

The data will be accessible on EarthExplorer by the US Geological Service (USGS).The release dates for different regions are:

  • November 2014: Mexico,…

Sentinel-2 ready to go!

March 06, 2015

The lead spacecraft in Europe's new multi-billion-euro Earth observation (EO) programme is built and ready to go into orbit.

CBERS-4 launched!

January 06, 2015

The China- Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS-4) was launched on 7th December, 2014 at 03.26 UTC. The products from the new satellite will help to advance cartographic and remote sensing…