It was announced last week that 93% of the Great Barrier Reef has been hit by coral bleaching due to rising sea temperatures from El Niño and climate change. We first wrote about the third worldwide coral bleaching in October … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Sentinel’s Milestone and Millstone
There was be a significant milestone achieved for the European Commission’s Copernicus Programme with the launch of the Sentinel-1B satellite. It was the fourth satellite launched, and will complete the first of the planned constellations as the second Sentinel-1 satellite. It was launched … Continue reading
The cost of ‘free data’
Last week, the US and Japan announced free public access to the archive of nearly 3 million images taken by ASTER instrument; previously this data had only been accessible with a nominal fee. ASTER, Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection … Continue reading
Blog of Many Colours
The aspect of art at school that really stuck with me was learning about the main colours of the rainbow and how they fit together – like with like, such as yellow, green, blue, and like with unlike such as … Continue reading