Two separate reports about the use of space data to enhance understanding of how the plant-water cycle operates caught our attention this week, as they relate to products and services we provide. The first was the announcement that from the … Continue reading
In the second part of our ESA Living Planet Symposium review, we’re going to concentrate on the Copernicus Programme as it’s one of the main factors driving innovation in the Earth Observation industry at the moment. Key sessions during the … Continue reading
ESA’s 2019 Living Planet Symposium takes place next week between the 13th and 17th May in Milan, Italy. The Symposium takes place every three years and is an important one for the industry as it highlights how Earth Observation (EO) … Continue reading
This week I’m in Uganda as part of the Drought and Flood Mitigation Service (DFMS) team for the Uganda Water & Environment Week 2019 (UWEWK2019), which takes place from the 18th to the 22nd March. This is the second of … Continue reading
On February 16th 2016, just before 6 pm, the third Sentinel of the Copernicus programme, Sentinel-3A was launched. It was joined in space by its twin, Sentinel-3B, twenty-six months later on the 25 April 2018. Both of the Sentinel-3 satellites … Continue reading
It’s an exciting week as I’m in sunny Kampala in Uganda helping demonstrate the Beta version of the Drought and Flood Mitigation Service (DFMS) we’re part of developing. We’ve already had a number of productive meetings and discussions, and yesterday … Continue reading
Last week I attended the 38th Annual European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Symposium, which took place on the Greek island of Crete. The theme of the Symposium was Earth Observation Supporting Sustainability Research and it ran alongside the … Continue reading
These three items are all relevant to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which took off last Friday, 29th June, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5.42am EDT. The launch was bound for the International Space Station (ISS), you … Continue reading
On Saturday, 19th November, at 10.42pm GMT the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) is due to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. The GOES-R is a geostationary weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration … Continue reading
