Remote sensing is an industry riding the crest of the big data wave. It offers great opportunities to those that can harness the power, but it’s also fraught with dangers. Big data is a blanket term used to describe datasets … Continue reading
Tag Archives: remote sensing
Is the Dead Sea in terminal decline?
The Dead Sea is located in the Jordan rift valley with a Jordanian border to the east and borders with Israel and Palestine to the west, and it has the lowest land elevation on Earth at over 400 metres below … Continue reading
34th EARSeL Symposium
Last week I attended the 34th Symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, known as EARSeL, in Warsaw, Poland. Originally formed in 1977, EARSeL is a scientific network of academic and commercial remote sensing organisations. It aims include: … Continue reading
The Science Behind Springwatch
Last Wednesday Pixalytics made it’s TV debut on the BBC2 Springwatch programme, where they showed a video we’d made on phytoplankton blooms. The video was based on NASA MODIS-Aqua daily images. MODIS, or the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, is an optical sensor that’s … Continue reading
Cresting Wavelength 2014
Today is the final day of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society’s (RSPSoc) annual Wavelength Conference for students and early career professionals in remote sensing and photogrammetry. This year, Pixalytics was one of the sponsors of the conference, which was … Continue reading
The UK needs an Earth Observation Day!
Not sure if you know, but today – April 9th – is Earth Observation Day in America! Any celebration of Earth Observation has our support, but this particular initiative deserves promotion as it’s focussed on inspiring students, and teachers, to … Continue reading
