Last week I was in Vienna, Austria, attending the 2014 European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly. It was a scientific smorgasbord laid in front of over 12,000 people from 106 countries. Over 4,800 oral presentations were given and 9,500 posters … Continue reading
Category Archives: Envisat
Copernicus ready for lift off!
The first satellite of the European Union’s Copernicus project, Sentinel-1A, is due to be launched next Thursday, April 3rd. The project aims to create a constellation of satellites providing a range of Earth Observation data to aid our understanding, and … Continue reading
Home from Hawaii
I got back to a ‘cold’ UK on Saturday afternoon after spending last week at Ocean Sciences 2014. It was a fantastic conference with over 5,600 attendees. My scientific highlights were: The Surface Ocean Layer Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) session on … Continue reading
An EO conference roundup: RSPSoc 2013 and the ESA Living Planet Symposium
It’s conference season! I’m at my 2nd conference in 2 weeks, both in Scotland. Last week was the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society Annual Conference, #RSPSoc2013, hosted in Glasgow. It included a broad range of sessions and scientific output within … Continue reading
Completing the PhD publication triple
Some great news this week! Dr Susan Kay’s third paper from her PhD has been accepted for publication by Applied Optics. Entitled “Sun glint estimation in marine satellite images: a comparison of results from calculation and radiative transfer modeling”, it … Continue reading
End of the Envisat Era
The Envisat satellite sent its last data to earth on the 08 April 2012 after an onboard anomaly; still under investigation. Recent images taken from the ground and Pleiades satellite show it probably tried to enter safe mode, which would … Continue reading
