Two weeks ago, we wrote about how the satellite industry was failing to deliver useful and actionable information, despite the huge increase in data, in relation to the Australian bushfires. There have been a couple of interesting news reports issued … Continue reading
I came across a sobering article this week in The Conversation written by Wallace Boone Law on the challenges of using satellite data during the recent Australian Bush fires. This article sums up the difficulties our industry has, and why … Continue reading
On Monday I was part of the fantastic event Careers Launch Cornwall at Goonhilly Earth Station! It was for students aged between 15 and18 and aimed to introduce them to potential careers in space. It was organised in collaboration with … Continue reading
Last week I was in Warsaw, Poland, at the 3rd General Assembly of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (often shortened to C3S) whose mission is to support European climate adaptation and mitigation policies by providing consistent and authoritative information, by … Continue reading
Over the last week, there have three interesting examples of how remote sensing techniques are being used in archaeology to help improve our understanding of history. Firstly, in Scotland, they’ve used airborne lidar on the Isle of Arran to identify … Continue reading
Next week we’ll be in Wales for the 2019 UK Space Conference. The UK Space Conference is held every two years and attracted over 1,200 delegates and over 100 exhibitors when it was last held in Manchester in 2017. This … Continue reading
ESA’s 2019 Living Planet Symposium takes place next week between the 13th and 17th May in Milan, Italy. The Symposium takes place every three years and is an important one for the industry as it highlights how Earth Observation (EO) … Continue reading
There have been some interesting first steps within the Earth Observation industry this week. Firstly, NASA provided the first data from it’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission – pronounced Jedi!! The mission was sent up to the International Space … Continue reading
On February 16th 2016, just before 6 pm, the third Sentinel of the Copernicus programme, Sentinel-3A was launched. It was joined in space by its twin, Sentinel-3B, twenty-six months later on the 25 April 2018. Both of the Sentinel-3 satellites … Continue reading
Time flies when you’re having fun, that’s why my first month at Pixalytics passed so fast. Like other students who have been here before me, I’m writing these words about my first impressions of my ERASMUS+ internship. As I said … Continue reading
