Last week I attended the 12th Appleton Space Conference, it was the first time I’d been to one of these conferences, and I was excited to be giving a talk. It was hosted by RAL Space at the Harwell Campus. After … Continue reading
It’s May which means it’s GEO Business time at the Business Design Centre in London. Last year Pixalytics used this event to dip our collective toe into exhibiting, and this year we’ve decided to be the other side and are … Continue reading
Media headlines this week have shouted that the UK is in for a sizzling summer with temperature in the nineties, coupled with potential flooding in August due to the La Niña weather process. The headlines were based on the UK … Continue reading
This week I’m at the 2016 European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium taking place in sunny Prague. I didn’t arrive until lunchtime on Monday and with the event already underway I hurried to the venue. First port of call was … Continue reading
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
Last week I was in Italy talking all things remote sensing and agriculture. At the start of the week I was in Rome with the European Space Agency (ESA) discussing the Sentinel-2 performance, before catching the train north to Milan … Continue reading
June’s been a really busy month for me on the world’s oceans. I’ve not actually been out on the water, but flying over it having attended both the World Ocean Summit and the International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS) meeting. Both … Continue reading
Tomorrow I’m off to the Ocean Optics conference, which has taken place every two years since 1965 and brings together specialists united by light in the ocean; this year the conference has topics as varied as environmental management, fluorescence, remote … Continue reading
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
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
