Have you read the top Pixalytics blogs of 2016?

As this is the final blog of the year we’d like to take a look back over the past fifty-two weeks and see which blog’s captured people’s attention, and conversely which did not! It turns out that seven of the … Continue reading

It’s World Space Week!!

Did you know it’s World Space Week? It occurs between the 4th and 10th October each year, because: On 4th October 1957 the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched; and On 10th October 1967: The Treaty on Principles … Continue reading

Gathering of the UK Remote Sensing Clans

The Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc) 2016 Annual Conference is taking place this week, hosted by the University of Nottingham and the British Geological Society. Two Pixalytics staff, Dr Sam Lavender and Dr Louisa Reynolds, left Plymouth on a … Continue reading

Earth observation satellites in space in 2016

If you’d like the 2017 update, please click here. Earth Observation (EO) satellites account for just over one quarter of all the operational satellites currently orbiting the Earth. As noted last week there are 1 419 operational satellites, and 374 … Continue reading

Simplification in the Geospatial Industry

It’s May which means it’s GEO Business time at the Business Design Centre in London. Last year Pixalytics used this event to dip our collective toe into exhibiting, and this year we’ve decided to be the other side and are … Continue reading

Flooding Forecasting & Mapping

Media headlines this week have shouted that the UK is in for a sizzling summer with temperature in the nineties, coupled with potential flooding in August due to the La Niña weather process. The headlines were based on the UK … Continue reading