I came across a sobering article this week in The Conversation written by Wallace Boone Law on the challenges of using satellite data during the recent Australian Bush fires. This article sums up the difficulties our industry has, and why … Continue reading
On Tuesday I attended the UK Space Agency’s Space Applications Networking Event, also described as Space2Connect 2020. The day-long event, which is in its third year, took place at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London. It’s a great opportunity … Continue reading
As we begin the New Year, we’re using this week to look back at our most popular blogs of the last twelve months. The question is, how many of them have you read? 2019 was another successful one for our … Continue reading
On the 9th December, the United States released its 2019 National Plan for Civil Earth Observations, which was a report by the U.S. Group on Earth Observations Subcommittee, Committee on the Environment of the National Science & Technology Council. The … Continue reading
Last week I was in Warsaw, Poland, at the 3rd General Assembly of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (often shortened to C3S) whose mission is to support European climate adaptation and mitigation policies by providing consistent and authoritative information, by … Continue reading
Last week I was invited to talk at an evening event organised by the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), which took place at the Met Office. It was titled ‘Satellite data for marine applications’ and there was a collection of local … Continue reading
The 22nd April is the globally celebrated annual Earth Day co-ordinated by the Earth Day Network and celebrated by 192 countries. This is the forty-ninth Earth Day, and this year the theme is ‘To protect threatened and endangered species’. Scientists … Continue reading
The opportunity to go back through history is one of the amazing strengths of satellite data. To decide in a morning that you want to go back and look what a place on the other side of the world was … Continue reading
The latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite to go into orbit is the Italian PRISMA satellite that was launched from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana at 0150 GMT on 22nd March 2019. PRIMSA stands for ‘PRecursore Iperspettrale della … Continue reading
We’re so used to seeing headlines about humans destroying the rainforests, swaths of deforestation and our activities affecting the climate; seeing a report suggesting we are making the planet the greener caught our attention. ‘China and India lead in greening … Continue reading
