Early Autumn EO satellite news!!

Planet deployed nine of its SuperDove Earth Observation (EO) imaging satellites, known as Flock 4e, on Monday 2nd November 2020. They were launched via the Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Māhia Peninsula, which is … Continue reading

Detecting waste from space

This week we’re delighted to announce that we’ve got a peer-reviewed paper published in the open-access journal Remote Sensing. The paper titled ‘Identification of Tyre and Plastic Waste from Combined Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 Data’ by the author’s Page and … Continue reading

World Environment Day 2020

It’s World Environment Day on Friday!! The United Nations General Assembly declared the 5th June each year as World Environment Day on the first day of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, also known as the Stockholm Conference, … Continue reading

From Stratosphere to Below Ground

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

ESA 2019 Living Planet Symposium Review – Part 1

Last week saw over 4 200 Earth Observation (EO) enthusiasts from over 80 countries travel to Milan to attend ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. With a total of 187 scheduled scientific sessions, as well as open assemblies, workshops, demonstrations, poster sessions … Continue reading

Drones: Useful Earth observation platform, or an expensive toy?

Commercial drones have undergone a sharp rise in popularity over the past decade. At the beginning of 2015, 133 drones were registered in the US for commercial purposes. By the end of the same year, this number had rocketed to … Continue reading

Haring About During March

It has been a really busy month at Pixalytics with trips to multiple continents. We started with a trip to Bogata in Colombia for the kick off of a new project we’re engaged with, and we hope to tell you … Continue reading