We’re looking at the top and bottom of the world this week, specifically at aspects of ice and what’s below it in the Arctic and Antarctica. Arctic Last week a report from NASA and the United States National Snow and … Continue reading
Pixalytics is delighted to announce its participation in a critical research project about forecasting a major climate tipping point – the potential collapse of the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. Sitting just south of Greenland and Iceland, the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre is … Continue reading
Following on from our previous blogs discussing the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth observation, this week’s blog focuses on its use for monitoring the Arctic. The extent of Arctic sea-ice cover has declined for the entire period that … Continue reading
This is not a warning, but an oxymoron for two key weather stories over the last week. Firstly, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that 2020 was the planet’s joint warmest year on record – tied with 2016. It … Continue reading
On the 7th September 2020 China successfully launched the Gaofen 11-2 optical Earth Observation (EO) satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March 4B rocket. This satellite, which forms part of the China High-Resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS), will … Continue reading
Two interesting articles came out recently about the increase in temperatures in the Arctic, and the impact that this is having on the region and its ecosystems. Firstly, at the end of last month, ESA reported that the Arctic had … Continue reading
This week we’re putting the focus on the current developments in ocean remote sensing – in the widest sense of the word! Firstly, last Thursday, China launched the Haiyang 1D (HY-1D) satellite, from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on the … Continue reading
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
Earlier this month the Copernicus Climate Change Service issued its July report, which showed that every month during 2019 has ranked within the top four warmest on record for that particular month. In June European average temperatures were the warmest … Continue reading
Two recently published scientific papers show uses of SAR data to measure different characteristics of ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Firstly, a paper in the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing demonstrated how CryoSat data has been … Continue reading
