History Comes Around

Remote sensing is a relatively young industry, but it doesn’t mean we don’t have history. We do. We shouldn’t it, and were reminded why this week as we bounced back through time. We noticed an introductory tweet yesterday from the … Continue reading →

Gliding Across The Ice

There’s been a flurry of reports in the last couple of weeks, reporting melting ice and retreating glaciers in Greenland and the Himalayas respectively. A paper by McMillan et al (2016), titled ‘A high-resolution record of Greenland mass balance’ and … Continue reading →

Remote Sensing and the DIKW Pyramid

Satellite remote sensing industry is evolving and anyone working in it needs to become familiar with the Data, information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid as this is one map, albeit simplistic, of the industry’s and our current journey. Historically, satellite data … Continue reading →

Beijing Is Sinking

Last month a paper was publishing in the Remote Sensing journal demonstrating that the city of Beijing is gradually sinking as a result of subsidence. The paper ‘Imaging Land Subsidence Induced by Groundwater Extraction in Beijing (China) Using Satellite Radar … Continue reading →