Pixalytics 2024 Blog of Blogs!

The end of a year is a time for reviewing the previous 12 months, and also time for the top 10 lists of everything from 2024 – and we’re no different at Pixalytics and so this is our annual post … Continue reading

Blue Carbon Travels Around Sweden

I’m currently on the first part of a two country Scandinavian Winter Road Trip for Pixalytics. I’m in Sweden working on the SwedCoast-BlueCarb project that is funded by the Swedish and UK Space Agencies and aims to use a combination … Continue reading

UK Leads International Earth Observation Organisation

This week the UK has become Chair of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), the international body responsible for coordinating observations of the Earth from space. Committee on Earth Observation Satellites CEOS was initially established in September 1984, following … Continue reading

Sentinel Missions Expand

At the International Astronautical Congress, which took place last week in Milan, Italy, the European Union (EU) confirmed that funding had been agreed for the development of all six Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions as part of its Earth Observation (EO) … Continue reading

Reflections from Ocean Optics

Last week I managed to escape the cold and wet UK weather by heading to Gran Canaria for the Ocean Optics XXVI conference, organised by The Oceanography Society. I spent my days walking along the promenade to, and from, the … Continue reading

It’s World Space Week 2024!

World Space Week was established by the United Nations in 1999, and this year marks its 25th anniversary. It is an annual event taking place between the 4th and 10th October each year. The two dates were chosen because the … Continue reading

New Earth Observation Science Strategy

This week the European Space Agency has released its new Earth Observation Science Strategy, Earth Science in Action for Tomorrow’s World. Having a science driven approach at its heart, the new strategy outlines a  vision for Earth science through to … Continue reading

National Earth Observation Conference 2024

I spent last week in York at the UK National Earth Observation Conference 2024. This joint event occurs every few years, and is organised by the National Centre of Earth Observation (NCEO), the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc), Centre … Continue reading

Rideshare For Earth Observation CubeSats

SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission with a payload of CubeSats took off last Friday, 16th August, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. As usual with these rideshare missions, there was a variety of Earth Observation (EO) small satellites and … Continue reading