Satellite mapping of flora hotspots

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Water mark

The stakes just got higher

Website review: Stargazers' delight

http://www.science.nasa.gov - This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-maintained website should be of immense interest to space-…

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Green eye in the sky

A voyage into space for a three-dimensional monitoring of the polluted environment

Take heed!

Worldwide increase in temperatures is becoming a major cause for concern

Space camera can help detect skin cancer, says European Space Agency

The camera’s sensor can spot changes that cannot be seen by the human eye, opening up the possibility of multiple applications for the camera

Tracking elles

Bad news from above

A new space-borne instrument helps NASA scientists come to a 'comprehensive' conclusion that the earth is being exposed to increasing amounts of …

Devils in the sky

It is possible to identify non-productive clouds through satellite-transmitted pictures, say Israeli scientists

Taming wild fires

Computer simulations can help prevent devastating wildfires

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Right sight

GIS helps determine waste disposal sites for Guwahati

Corals, maths and satellites

A new mathematical formula will scan satellite images to study changes in coral reefs

THE MONEY MAKERS

Bush signs new space policy

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Branson to spend profits to combat global warming

`Student satellites are more than lab experiments'

D V A Raghava Murthy, director, Earth Observations Systems, was the project director of Small Satellite Projects at ISRO Satellite Centre between …