The remote sensing/Earth observation (EO) market is like the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster – there are plenty of people out there who tell you it exists, but very few companies have seen it with their own eyes! We … Continue reading
It was announced last week that 93% of the Great Barrier Reef has been hit by coral bleaching due to rising sea temperatures from El Niño and climate change. We first wrote about the third worldwide coral bleaching in October … Continue reading
The aspect of art at school that really stuck with me was learning about the main colours of the rainbow and how they fit together – like with like, such as yellow, green, blue, and like with unlike such as … Continue reading
One of satellite remote sensing’s greatest strengths is the archive of historical data available, allowing researchers to analyse how areas change over years or even decades – for example, Landsat data has a forty year archive. It is one of … Continue reading
Today we’re looking at an unusual application of satellite data, namely using it to create alphabets. The first example is the Aerial Bold Project, established by Benedikt Groß and Joey Lee in 2014. It set out to create typeface fonts … Continue reading
Nowadays you can answer a wide range of environmental questions yourself using only open source software and free remote sensing satellite data. You do not need to be a researcher and by acquiring a few skills you can the analysis … Continue reading
Monitoring forest biomass is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle because: Forests account for around 45 % of terrestrial carbon, and deforestation accounts for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions Deforestation and forest degradation release approximately identical amounts of greenhouse … Continue reading
Wavelength 2016, the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society’s annual conference for remote sensing students and early career scientists took place last week. The venue was the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) at Holmbury St. Mary, Surrey, whose two hundred year … Continue reading
Satellite remote sensing is set for a speed turbo boost with the launch of the less than snappily named EDRS. The first node of the European Data Relay System (EDRS), which is effectively a space based satellite data super highway, … Continue reading
Two academic remote sensing research announcements caught our eye this week. To be fair most remote sensing announcements catch our eye, but these two were intriguing as they are repurposing remote sensing techniques. Remote Sensing the Human Body Researchers at … Continue reading
