This week we’re offering you a fantastic opportunity to get involved with Earth Observation (EO) from your own home, through an exciting citizen project to classify clouds on satellite images, together with less positive news on potential EO budget cuts … Continue reading
Two articles close to home caught our attention this week. Firstly, a new map of trees outside woodlands in England created using Sentinel-2 data and other sources, and secondly a fantastic cloud-free image of the British Isles acquired last week … Continue reading
This week sees the latest high-resolution Earth Observation (EO) satellites launched for Maxar, a potential world first for space with five rocket launches in 24 hours, and finally we look at the latest contracts for the Copernicus Contributing Missions. Latest … Continue reading
At the International Astronautical Congress, which took place last week in Milan, Italy, the European Union (EU) confirmed that funding had been agreed for the development of all six Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions as part of its Earth Observation (EO) … Continue reading
Today, we’re looking at a trilogy of Earth Observation (EO) satellite first light images released last week. All three satellites were launched over the last couple of months, and it is exciting to see what they are acquiring. Sentinel-2C First … Continue reading
Update: Copernicus Sentinel-2C launched successfully in the early hours of Thursday morning. Launch was delayed 24 hours due to electrical issues. The launch of the Sentinel-2C satellite is scheduled for the early hours of Wednesday 4th September 2024 Central European … Continue reading
This week were are looking at the latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite in orbit, together with a couple of exciting launches that are coming up in the near future. Strix-4 Launch Last Friday, 2nd August, saw the successful launch of … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at two space debris satellite events occurring in the second half of this month, one coming down and the other going up! End of ERS-2 It is anticipated that the European Space Agency’s (ESA) second European … Continue reading
This week, we are looking at Earth Observation (EO) developments in Asia and Africa – China’s first EO launches of the year and the Côte d’Ivoire latest Land Cover map using Sentinel-2 data. China’s EO Satellite Launches In our first … Continue reading
The Earth Observation (EO) sector has been active this week with new contracts, agreements, and satellite launches. TRUTHS This week, two contracts for the next phase of the European Space Agency’s Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies mission, known as … Continue reading
