Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: NASA

  • NASA and Autodesk Collaborate on Sustainable Building Performance Monitoring

    NASA and Autodesk Collaborate on Sustainable Building Performance Monitoring

    New Agreement to Advance Development of Technology to Monitor and Visualize Building Performance using Building Information Models

  • The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Releases New Heights of Accuracy for World Topography

    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Releases New Heights of Accuracy for World Topography

    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) have collaborated in the development of a much improved global elevation model, the Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010). GMTED2010 replaces the widely used, 15-year-old GTOPO30 terrain model as the best available global digital elevation model. Useful for regional-, continental-, and global-scale applications,…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 30, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 30, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30 Atlas Machinery Supply Ltd. Expands into the Construction Market with Leica Geosystems Canada Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 23, 2011 Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23 NASA and Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth Gatewing X100…

  • NASA and Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth

    NASA and Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth

    PASADENA, Calif. – NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011

    Updates & Upgrades In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup, I want to explain a few site upgrades in addition to this week’s summary. If you are a regular visitor here, you’ve no doubt noticed a new look. You also might have found some of the site features updated, too. What’s happening, simply is…

  • GAO Reports NOAA and NASA Improvements Needed for GOES Satellite Coverage Gap

    The following information is taken from the “Highlights” page of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the GAO’s study and evaluation of how ready NOAA and NASA are for a possible satellite coverage gap from April to October 2015. This potential gap in satellite coverage is attributable to contract delays and the probable failing…

  • NASA Earth Observation Satellite Glory Failed to Reach Orbit

    NASA Earth Study Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit WASHINGTON — NASA’s Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit. Telemetry indicated the fairing, the protective shell atop the Taurus XL rocket, did not separate as expected about three minutes after launch. Video of Rocket…

  • China and Nepal Agree to Disagree on Height of Mount Everest

    China and Nepal Agree to Disagree on Height of Mount Everest I came across an interesting article at the end of last week about how China and Nepal agreed to disagree on the exact height of Mount Everest. The Nepalese and Chinese governments negotiated last week to solve the 150 year old question, but in…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News: Newest NOAA Geostationary Satellite Reaches Orbit

    Here’s a news article from earlier this month that I missed, but thought was interesting. Besides, the picture of the rocket taking off is pretty cool, too! Newest NOAA Geostationary Satellite Reaches Orbit GOES-P has improved severe weather, solar storm detection capabilities March 4, 2010 NOAA and NASA officials announced a new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Newsletter Update

    Just a quick note about the Professional Land Surveyor Newsletters. If you already subscribe you no doubt have noticed that I’ve added a few new features to these weekly newsletters, which I hope helps you to broaden your knowledge of other professionals and specifically helps you to navigate the social media sites making a few…

  • USGS Astrogeologists Contribute to “Moon in Google Earth”

    Astrogeologists at the U.S. Geological Survey here provided critical data sets used in the latest release of planetary exploration tools from Google, Inc.  The updated software enables users to explore the moon in high detail, including the Apollo 11 landing site. Google Inc. and NASA Ames Research Center consulted USGS scientists, cartographers, technicians, and programmers…

  • FORA.tv – Jennifer Heldmann: The Moon

    FORA.tv – Jennifer Heldmann: The Moon. Who knew?

  • Global Climate Change: Sea Level Viewer

    Global Climate Change: Sea Level ViewerGlobal Climate Change: Sea Level Viewer. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology video showing how satellites can measure sea surface height. The NASA video identifies sea level changes associated with a recent view (June 2008), Large El Niño (November 1997), Hurricane Katrina (August 2005), Indian Ocean Tsunami (December 2004) and…

  • Joshua Tree National Park, California : Image of the Day

    Interesting site by NASA Earth Observatory Image of the day of Joshua Tree National Park including information about the park.   Joshua Tree National Park, California : Image of the Day

  • NASA Connect Segment explaining surveying and how surveyors use geometry.

    NASA Connect Segment explaining surveying and how surveyors use geometry. Here’s a surveying related video made by NASA for it’s NASA Connect series that explains basic land surveying methods and use of geometry. Although the video is geared towards children to show the real-life use of geometry and is a limited demonstration as to what surveyors do,…