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IDL Helps South Korean Scientists Predict Space Weather Background In 1859, the sun let loose a large coronal ejection that caused a geomagnetic storm that lit up the sky and frazzled communication wires around the world. It caused auroras knows as the “Carrington Event” that were said to have awakened campers in the middle of the... Read More >
IDL Helps Scientists Measure Global Rainfall Background The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is an international network of satellites that will provide the next-generation global observations of rain and snow. The GPM concept centers on the... Read More >
Mapping Crop Residue with Landsat Data using ENVI for ArcGIS® Background Traditionally, farmers have “worked” or tilled their land to control weeds and kill volunteer crops. These tillage methods remove crop residues, disturb the natural soil structure, and expose the soil to erosion. Conservation tillage, on the other hand,... Read More >
DESCRIPTION Normally on Mac OS X, attempting to launch more than one IDL Workbench session via the IDL AppleScript icon or alias on Mac OS X will result in only a single IDL Workbench session. This help article discusses an approach that may allow a user to launch multiple IDL Workbench sessions from a Desktop icon. (Note: Each separate IDL... Read More >
"What's out there?" is a question that captured our collective imagination long before we actually traveled into space to explore it. With the recent Mars Science Laboratory mission to Mars, once again all eyes are turned skyward. Exelis Visual Information Solutions is helping scientists on the Mars Curiosity rover team answer that age old... Read More >