Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing Second Edition Released

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

Landsat Mission Turns 50!

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

Marine Tech Expo 2021 – 12th & 13th July

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

New Launches, New Images & an 8th Anniversary

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

Greening Our World

Download this page in PDF format 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. … Continue reading

Did you read the top Pixalytics blogs of 2018?

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

NASA in Plymouth!

Download this page in PDF format 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, … Continue reading

Earth Observation Ecosystem

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

Sentinels Watch Over Common Agricultural Policy

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

Unintended Consequences of Energy Saving

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading