World Environment Day 2020

It’s World Environment Day on Friday!! The United Nations General Assembly declared the 5th June each year as World Environment Day on the first day of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, also known as the Stockholm Conference, … Continue reading

Discovering Evapotranspiration

Over the last few months, we’ve been using satellite data to develop products that measure Evapotranspiration – this is the total loss of water from the soil and plants through the two processes of evaporation and transpiration. Evaporation is the … Continue reading

Improving Understanding of Plant Water Use

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

Developing a Drought & Flood Mitigation Service for Uganda

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