We’re delighted to announce the launch of the second edition of the Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing written by the Directors, and cofounders, of Pixalytics Ltd, Samantha and Andrew Lavender. This ‘how-to’ guide offers the opportunity for anyone to learn … Continue reading
Landsat will celebrate fifty years of Earth Observation (EO) this weekend. The first Landsat mission was Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS-1), which was launched into a 570-mile sun-synchronous near polar orbit on the 23 July 1972 by a Delta … Continue reading
The Marine Tech Expo, Plymouth’s marine and maritime industry conference, takes place from 12th and 13th July 2021. Like the Mayflower Autonomous Ship we wrote about a couple of weeks ago this event was due to be part of the … Continue reading
A new Chinese launch vehicle had its inaugural flight last weekend from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China. The Smart Dragon-1, also known by its Chinese name of Jielong-1, was developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology … Continue reading
We’re so used to seeing headlines about humans destroying the rainforests, swaths of deforestation and our activities affecting the climate; seeing a report suggesting we are making the planet the greener caught our attention. ‘China and India lead in greening … Continue reading
This week we’re looking back at most popular posts of the last twelve months. Question is, how many have you read? 2018 was a really successful one for our website. The number of view increased by 95% compared to last … Continue reading
It was great to be invited to give the introductory talk at the inaugural Plymouth NASA Space Apps Challenge last weekend. Space Apps is a two-day international hackathon hosted in cities around the world, globally coordinated by NASA. It began … Continue reading
Last week I was in Brussels at the Copernicus Ecosystem Workshop 2018 which took place on the 9th and 10th October at the Docks Dome; an architecturally interesting building located on top of the Docks Bruxsel Shopping Centre. The event … Continue reading
A new programme was launched on the 22nd May enabling Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data to be used to support the monitoring of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The principles of CAP were actually included in the Treaty of … Continue reading
Last month a report in Science Advances got a lot of publicity as it described the increase in global light pollution following research using satellite data. Even more interesting was the fact that one of the key drivers, although not … Continue reading
