Satellite Launches, Losses & A Postponement

On the 7th September 2020 China successfully launched the Gaofen 11-2 optical Earth Observation (EO) satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March 4B rocket. This satellite, which forms part of the China High-Resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS), will … Continue reading

Remote Sensing Goes Cold

Remote sensing over the Polar Regions has poked its head above the ice recently. On the 8th February The Cryosphere, a journal of the European Geosciences Union, published a paper by Smith et al titled ’Connected sub glacial lake drainage … Continue reading