NASA are preparing to launch Landsat 9 which is scheduled for Monday 27th September from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California using the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket – although there has already been a few … Continue reading
For everyone staying inside this week, we want to show you that nature, and the planet, continues on with its own cycle uninterrupted by what is happening to the human population. The Mojave Desert, the driest desert in North America, … Continue reading
Two interesting, and indirectly linked, articles were published in the last few weeks looking at how satellite imagery and remote sensing techniques are being used to monitor changes in glaciers across the globe. Firstly, the paper ‘Global Assessment of Supraglacial … Continue reading
The Landsat programme achieved a couple of significant milestones over the last two weeks. Firstly, the 11th February marked the five year anniversary of the launch of Landsat 8 which took place at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in … Continue reading
Algae have been making the headlines in the last few weeks, which is definitely a rarely used phrase! Firstly, the Lake Erie freshwater algal bloom has begun in the western end of the lake near Toledo. This is something that … Continue reading
Landsat has celebrated forty-five years of Earth observation this week. The first Landsat mission was Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS-1), which was launched into a sun-synchronous near polar orbit on the 23 July 1972. It wasn’t renamed Landsat-1 until … Continue reading
The titular paraphrasing of the famous falling tree in the forest riddle was well and truly answered this week, and shows just how far satellite remote sensing has come in recent years. Last week sometime between Monday 10th July and … Continue reading
Two academic remote sensing research announcements caught our eye this week. To be fair most remote sensing announcements catch our eye, but these two were intriguing as they are repurposing remote sensing techniques. Remote Sensing the Human Body Researchers at … Continue reading
Coastal zones are the place where the sea and the land meet, and they’ve played a massive role in the life of Pixalytics. From a personal standpoint we’re based, and live, in Plymouth on the south-west coast and anyone who … Continue reading
In our recent blog we described the five simple steps to select, download and view LandsatLook Natural Colour Images. However, did you know that the Natural Colour Image isn’t actually a single image? Instead, it’s a combination of three separate … Continue reading
