Last week saw the launch of seven new Earth Observation (EO) satellites, the remote repair of an EO satellite in space and the potential establishment of the world’s highest weather station. China Starting with launches, the China National Space Administration … Continue reading
After everything else that has happened in 2020, it was revealed yesterday that Mount Everest is actually bigger than was previously thought. This also means that the highest point on Earth is higher than anyone thought! The new height of … Continue reading
ESA published an article this week describing the work that two Norwegian researchers had undertaken with Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to help people climb Mount Everest – which is something that caught our eye! The researchers, Dr Bas Altena and Professor … Continue reading
Despite being the highest point on the planet, even Everest has felt the long reach of the pandemic, and we’re going to look at a couple of these impacts. The image n the left is Mount Everest acquired from Landsat-8. … Continue reading
Accurately measuring the height of buildings, mountains or water bodies is possible from space. Active satellite sensors send out pulses of energy towards the Earth, and measure the strength and origin of the energy received back enabling them to determine … Continue reading
