Last week I attended the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth; held at The World Forum in The Hague (the Netherlands). It brought together 500 ocean stakeholders from over 80 countries to address the three key … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2014
The Reality of Gravity
Space debris has hit the entertainment headlines recently, with the film Gravity winning various awards; it deals with the aftermath of a space debris collision with the International Space Station. So is the film just a fictional thriller or a … Continue reading
Cresting Wavelength 2014
Today is the final day of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society’s (RSPSoc) annual Wavelength Conference for students and early career professionals in remote sensing and photogrammetry. This year, Pixalytics was one of the sponsors of the conference, which was … Continue reading
The UK needs an Earth Observation Day!
Not sure if you know, but today – April 9th – is Earth Observation Day in America! Any celebration of Earth Observation has our support, but this particular initiative deserves promotion as it’s focussed on inspiring students, and teachers, to … Continue reading
How Many Satellites are Orbiting the Earth?
As we discussed last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-1A satellite is due to be launched tomorrow night from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. This got me wondering, how many satellites are orbiting the earth? It turns out … Continue reading
