NASA is currently in the middle of a joint airborne and sea campaign to study the ocean and atmosphere in preparation for developing instruments for future spaceborne missions. The Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) campaign has brought together experts from a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Random Numbers from Space
The concept of randomness, and creation of random numbers, has been part of human culture for thousands of years; in fifth century Athens, they considered elections undemocratic, everyone was considered equal and they selected people at random from the population … Continue reading
How Many Earth Observation Satellites are in Space?
Space is growing market! With Google recently announcing its purchase of Skybox Imaging, the myriad of organisations jostling to be the first to offer commercial space flights and the launch of two UK satellites last week(TechDemoSat-1 and UKube-1) it’s clear … Continue reading
Remote Sensing Big Data: Possibilities and dangers
Remote sensing is an industry riding the crest of the big data wave. It offers great opportunities to those that can harness the power, but it’s also fraught with dangers. Big data is a blanket term used to describe datasets … Continue reading
Is the Dead Sea in terminal decline?
The Dead Sea is located in the Jordan rift valley with a Jordanian border to the east and borders with Israel and Palestine to the west, and it has the lowest land elevation on Earth at over 400 metres below … Continue reading
