This week has seen the release of the first publicly available batches of Earth Observation (EO) data from the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, and a commercial rocket from China launching 9 satellites including several EO payloads. NISAR Data … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at the latest Earth Observation (EO) launches both in terms of satellites and machine learning datasets, together with the discovery of a lost satellite! WorldView-Legion EO Satellites Finally Launch! We were a little premature when we … Continue reading
This week, arguably, marks the birth of the modern Earth Observation (EO). On the 23rd July 1972, the first Landsat satellite was launched – although at the time it was called Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS-1) and was not … Continue reading
August 10th 1992 marked the launch of the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, the first major oceanographic focussed mission. Twenty five years, and three successor satellites, later the dataset begun by TOPEX/Poseidon is going strong providing sea surface height measurements. TOPEX/Poseidon was a … Continue reading
