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
Category Archives: UK Space Industry
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
Earth Observation Needs To Improve Its Brand!
The ripples of the global pandemic are being felt by the European Earth Observation (EO), and wider, space industry as the leaders of the twenty-seven European Union (EU) countries agreed a € 750 billion stimulus package to support their countries … Continue reading
Good or Bad Week for UK Space Industry … You Decide
Last week saw some interesting developments for the UK Space Industry. Firstly, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Industrial Policy Committee awarded contracts of €2.55 billion for the development of six new Copernicus satellite missions, with both Thales and Airbus being … Continue reading
What role does Artificial Intelligence have in an Earth Observation business strategy?
Last Friday afternoon, 26th June, I spent an interesting session at the British Association Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC) Cuddle Number Seven. These networking Cuddles bring together BARSC Members, speakers and other industry organisations to discuss key issues that matter to … Continue reading
How many satellites are orbiting the Earth in 2020?
This is our update on the satellites currently orbiting the Earth as at the 31st March 2020. According to the Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), there were … Continue reading
Chance To Use EO Data To Fight Covid-19 From Home
The global Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge was announced recently. This will be a virtual hackathon over forty-eight hours where teams from across the planet will get together to use Earth Observation data to propose solutions to the challenges we are … Continue reading
Poppies and Tulips Blooming
For everyone staying inside this week, we want to show you that nature, and the planet, continues on with its own cycle uninterrupted by what is happening to the human population. The Mojave Desert, the driest desert in North America, … Continue reading
From Stratosphere to Below Ground
Two reports caught our attention this week as they have links to some of the work we’re doing on a couple of UK Space Agency International Partnership Programme (IPP) projects. The first was from NASA Earth Observatory looking at drought … Continue reading
Latest EO Geostationary Launches & Update on UK GNSS
The latest Indian Earth Observation satellite due be launched was going to be Geo Imaging Satellite-1 (GISAT-1). The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is expecting to put the satellite into orbit on the 5th March 2020 via the Geosynchronous Satellite … Continue reading