Next week is World Space Week and this year’s theme is ‘Satellites improve life’. The origins of World Space Week can be found in Houston in America when, in 1980, the World Space Week Association co-ordinated the first ‘Spaceweek’ which … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Using satellite data to climb Mount Everest!
ESA published an article this week describing the work that two Norwegian researchers had undertaken with Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to help people climb Mount Everest – which is something that caught our eye! The researchers, Dr Bas Altena and Professor … Continue reading
Satellite Launches, Losses & A Postponement
On the 7th September 2020 China successfully launched the Gaofen 11-2 optical Earth Observation (EO) satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March 4B rocket. This satellite, which forms part of the China High-Resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS), will … Continue reading
Heating Up The Arctic
Two interesting articles came out recently about the increase in temperatures in the Arctic, and the impact that this is having on the region and its ecosystems. Firstly, at the end of last month, ESA reported that the Arctic had … Continue reading
Detecting waste from space
This week we’re delighted to announce that we’ve got a peer-reviewed paper published in the open-access journal Remote Sensing. The paper titled ‘Identification of Tyre and Plastic Waste from Combined Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 Data’ by the author’s Page and … Continue reading