This week we’re looking at the Lazarus qualities of a Chinese satellite, a new international hub for sharing remote sensing data and the South Korean Earth Observation budget and focus for 2022. China Last October we wrote about the loss … Continue reading
Next week is the UK Earth Observation 2021 week! The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) and the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc) have come together to run a single online conference from … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at China and how quickly it has grown to arguably start to lead the world in its Earth Observation (EO) and remote sensing capabilities. Now I know some people will immediately start talking about America with … Continue reading
Earlier this year we wrote about our latest update on the number of satellites orbiting the Earth. One of the sources of this data is the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) who have just released their latest update showing the … Continue reading
Next week is World Space Week and this year’s theme is ‘Satellites improve life’. The origins of World Space Week can be found in Houston in America when, in 1980, the World Space Week Association co-ordinated the first ‘Spaceweek’ which … Continue reading
This week we’re delighted to announce that we’ve got a peer-reviewed paper published in the open-access journal Remote Sensing. The paper titled ‘Identification of Tyre and Plastic Waste from Combined Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 Data’ by the author’s Page and … Continue reading
Last Thursday, 6th August, China launched its latest Goafen satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia. The satellite, Gaofen 9 (04), was sent into a polar orbit at an altitude of 500 km … Continue reading
Last Friday afternoon, 26th June, I spent an interesting session at the British Association Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC) Cuddle Number Seven. These networking Cuddles bring together BARSC Members, speakers and other industry organisations to discuss key issues that matter to … Continue reading
This week we’re putting the focus on the current developments in ocean remote sensing – in the widest sense of the word! Firstly, last Thursday, China launched the Haiyang 1D (HY-1D) satellite, from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on the … Continue reading
Last week we wrote about how Earth Observation satellites were monitoring the changes in nitrogen dioxide levels in country’s placing restrictions on daily life. We’re going to start this week’s blog with a look at how night-time imagery has changed … Continue reading
