Tracking Marine Plastic Litter From Space

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) issued an article about the MARLISAT project tracking marine plastic litter using a combination of in-situ and satellite data together with a computer model. We’re delighted as this is a project we’ve been … Continue reading

Requiems for Satellites

We’re all dressed in black this week as we mourn the loss of three satellites: EOS-02 & AzaadiSAT Satellites In our previous blog we wrote about the planned launch last weekend of the EOS-02 & AzaadiSAT satellites by the Indian … Continue reading

UK Science & Earth Observation Industries Dealt A Body Blow?

There is huge concern within the UK science and business communities that the country is about to walk away from the Horizon Europe research programme, the Copernicus Earth Observation (EO) Programme, and the Euratom nuclear programme. Last week George Freeman, … Continue reading

Living Planet 2022!

It’s the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium 2022 all this week! The conference is being held at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany, which means I’ve had to navigate airports, flights and passport control for the first time … Continue reading

Satellite Problems & New Launches

This week we’re looking at the ongoing problems for the Sentinel-1B satellite, together with a new satellite launch from China, and a potentially gaming changing new  service developed by Wuhan University. Sentinel-1B Satellite Sentinel-1B data users will know that the … Continue reading

Copernicus Sentinel-1B SAR Problems

News of problems for Copernicus Sentinel-1B, and a glimpse of the Earth Observation (EO) priorities for NASA, this week. Starting in Europe, the concerning news is that Copernicus 1B suffered an anomaly on the 23rd December, as reported on the … 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

Earth Observation Is Taking No Summer Holiday

We’re in the middle of a busy period for Earth Observation (EO), with new launches and satellites going into service. We begin the new launches in China with news that on Sunday they launched the Gaofen 9-05 satellite from the … Continue reading

Earth Observation for Sustainable Aggregate Supply

Today, on World Humanitarian Day, the UK Space Agency has announced new funding for Pixalytics to help Kenya tackle the social and environmental impacts of unsustainable sand mining. Pixalytics will be leading the international project, called Earth Observation for Sustainable … Continue reading

Planet To Achieve A Daily Dozen!

In 2011 when the satellite company Planet started, it set itself a ‘Mission 1’ which was to image the entire Earth’s landmass every day. Six years later in November 2017, they confirmed they had achieved that goal through its Dove … Continue reading