Panama Canal Suffering From Drought

Download this page in PDF format Wildfires, storms and flooding have hit the headlines numerous times this year with climate change a key factor, but the latest impact is on the Panama Canal that has had to reduce the number … Continue reading

Calibration Site Saved!

Download this page in PDF format It’s not often that satellite ground-based calibration methodology hits the headlines, but it happened last week. This was because the United States Bureau of Land Management announced that following a request from the National … Continue reading

Artificial Intelligence In Earth Observation

Download this page in PDF format This week three separate reports caught our attention about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting the space and Earth Observation (EO) communities. This covers both upstream with AI controlling satellites, and downstream activities with … Continue reading

Hyperspectral Being Hyped Up!

Download this page in PDF format Hyperspectral data looks like it will be the next big development in remote sensing with contracts issued last week by the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Hyperspectral imaging is where the electromagnetic spectrum … Continue reading

Landsat Mission Turns 50!

Download this page in PDF format Landsat will celebrate fifty years of Earth Observation (EO) this weekend. The first Landsat mission was Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS-1), which was launched into a 570-mile sun-synchronous near polar orbit on the … Continue reading

Landsat 9 Ready To Launch

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading

Earth Observation & Climate Change

Download this page in PDF format A briefing paper for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, titled Space-based Earth Observations For Climate Security by Bamber & Bates et al was published by the COP26 Universities … Continue reading

We’re Back – To Celebrate Our 9th Birthday!

Download this page in PDF format The Pixalytics weekly blog has been on hiatus for the last three months, but now we’re back! Our restart is to co-inside with the celebration of our 9th Birthday, which took place at the … Continue reading

Importance of Dataset Continuity

Download this page in PDF format 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. … Continue reading

Improving Understanding of Plant Water Use

Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading