Earth Observation In Asia & Africa

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

Geospatial Data In Disaster Situations

The Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Disaster Pilot 23 public Demonstration Day took place yesterday, where all the results and achievements of the 2023 Pilot presented within a webinar. We discussed the OGC organisation itself in last week’s blog, and as … Continue reading

Latest Earth Observation News

The focus this week is on the latest Earth Observation (EO) news from China and the United Kingdom (UK). China Two Earth Observation Satellite Launches Last Week The first, on the 7th September, was the Yaogan 33-3 which was launched … Continue reading

Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing Second Edition Released

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 the opportunity for anyone to learn … Continue reading

Partnerships Everywhere!

It seems that the spirit of co-operation and collaboration has gripped the Earth Observation (EO) industry this week, with a number of companies announcing new partnerships in the last week: ICEYE Last week, the Finnish company, ICEYE, announced an agreement … Continue reading

Data Preservation At CERN

My European travels have continued after my visit to EGU, last week I was in Geneva at CERN, also known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research. I was attending the PV2023 conference titled ‘Adding value (to) and preserving Scientific … Continue reading

Hyperspectral Being Hyped Up!

Hyperspectral data looks like it will be the next big development in remote sensing with contracts issued last week by the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Hyperspectral imaging is where the electromagnetic spectrum is broken down into many, often … Continue reading

Satellite data … but is it being used?

Looking at the latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite launch, some first light hyperspectral imagery and a research publication showing the challenges of getting widespread use of EO data. Satellite Launch 24th February saw the successful launch of the Egyptian Earth … Continue reading

Top Pixalytics blogs of 2022

As we reach the final blog of 2022, we’re using this week to look back at Pixalytics’ most popular blogs of the last year. Have you read all of these? Our most viewed blog of the year was How many … Continue reading

Space Technology Supporting The Planet

The role space technology and remote sensing plays in the world, together with how it supports innovation and advancement were highlighted in several reports and articles this week. We’re going to be looking at those related to agricultural and innovation … Continue reading