Satellite Data Supporting Agriculture

This week we’re focused on how satellite imagery can help support farming. We’re currently visiting Agricultural Shows as part of a project to understand how satellite imagery is being used in agriculture in the UK and were drawn to a … Continue reading

Mapping the Ocean Seabed From Satellite

This week, an article on the NASA Earth Observatory caught our eye. It described a new satellite bathymetry technique developed to map shallow coastal areas using Landsat data. Satellite bathymetry, measuring water depths from space, is an area of interest … Continue reading

Sporting Events From Space

The eyes of the sporting world have turned towards France, and we thought it was a good opportunity to look at some venues from space. Last weekend saw the conclusion of the Tour de France with a stunning victory for … Continue reading

State of Our Oceans

There have been a couple of interesting documents issued recently regarding the state of our oceans. European Union Copernicus Ocean State Report Last week saw the publication of the 7th edition of the European Union Copernicus Ocean State Report (OSR … Continue reading

From Stratosphere to Below Ground

Two reports caught our attention this week as they have links to some of the work we’re doing on a couple of UK Space Agency International Partnership Programme (IPP) projects. The first was from NASA Earth Observatory looking at drought … Continue reading

Flip-Sides of Soil Moisture

Soil moisture is an interesting measurement as it can be used to monitor two diametrically opposed conditions, namely floods and droughts. This was highlighted last week by maps produced from satellite data for the USA and Italy respectively. These caught … Continue reading