In the week that the leaders of the G7 and the Queen passed our door on their way to Cornwall, the UK Government offered support for the first satellite to be designed, built and launched in Cornwall! Kernow Sat 1 … Continue reading
As the UK is basking in its first prolonged spell of sunshine for some time, we’re focusing on colder parts of the world in the blog looking at the latest news in terms of ice monitoring. We’re starting with some … Continue reading
Two reports this week demonstrating the issues and importance of maintaining dataset continuity. Firstly, the Canadian firm, MDA, announced at the beginning of February that they were making progress with the RadarSat-2 Continuity Mission. MDA, who own and operate Radarsat-2, … Continue reading
As everyone in Europe will be aware, and probably others around the world, after four years of talking an eleventh hour trade agreement was reached between the UK and Europe on the 24th December 2020 to get Brexit done … … Continue reading
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The latest satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel family was launched last Saturday, 21st November, at 17.17 GMT. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich was taken into orbit by SpaceX via the Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA, … Continue reading
This week we start in the future with ESA’s announcement of an online press conference on Friday 16th October to discuss the November launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-6 ‘Michael Freilich’ ocean-monitoring satellite; scheduled to take off on the 10th … Continue reading
Two interesting articles came out recently about the increase in temperatures in the Arctic, and the impact that this is having on the region and its ecosystems. Firstly, at the end of last month, ESA reported that the Arctic had … Continue reading
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
We’re in the middle of a busy period for Earth Observation (EO), with new launches and satellites going into service. We begin the new launches in China with news that on Sunday they launched the Gaofen 9-05 satellite from the … Continue reading
