This week, I’m at the 128th Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Member Meeting in Delft, Netherlands taking place from 25th to 28th March 2024. The theme for the meeting is Geospatial Data for Building Information Models (GEO-BIM) for the Built Environment, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2024
NASA’s Ambitions for Earth Observation
Last week, the White House allocated a $25.4 billion budget to NASA for the 2025 financial year, which runs from the 1st October 2024 to 30th September 2025, and this includes its Earth Observation ambitions. This represents $2.3 billion less than … Continue reading
New Space Superpowers Emerging?
This week we’re focusing on the up and coming space superpowers with a focus on Saudi Arabia’s intention to enter the space sector, and details of India’s latest mission success. Saudi Arabia At the end of last week it was … Continue reading
Last & Next EO Launch, & Data Availability
The latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite launches are from Russia, with the next expected launch being from Japan, and details of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) datasets publicly available from America. Leapling Russia Satellite Launch On the 29th February the Soyuz-2-1b … Continue reading