Once again, this week it was articles about using satellite data to support the agricultural sector that caught our attention. Two reports from the United States about soil health, plus a paper on valuing a farm’s natural assets. United States … Continue reading
This week we’re focused on how satellite imagery can help support farming. We’re currently visiting Agricultural Shows as part of a project to understand how satellite imagery is being used in agriculture in the UK and were drawn to a … Continue reading
I spent last week in London immersed in all things geospatial, attending both GEO Business and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) UK & Ireland Forum. GEO Business 2024 was held at the ExCeL London exhibition centre on the 4th and … Continue reading
Evapotranspiration is an area we’ve been working within for the last few years, and have previously written about, and so it was interesting to see a new article published last week in the Nature Climate Change journal. The paper, ‘Evapotranspiration frequently … Continue reading
Interesting reports from UK and US Government bodies this week into the Geospatial Strategy and NASA projects, and we’ll look at the issues related to the Earth Observation industry. Â UK Geospatial Strategy A report was issued last week by the … Continue reading
At the end of last week the Government of Canada outlined its strategy for Earth Observation (EO) for the next 15 years with the release of ‘Resourceful, Resilient, Ready: Canada’s Strategy for Satellite Earth Observation’.  This outlines the way forward … 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
Over the last week there have been some interesting news snippets about the Earth Observation (EO) and satellite industries. We’ll start with NASA who issued its budget request for 2022 on the 28th May, asking for $24.801 billion to support … Continue reading
ESA published an article this week describing the work that two Norwegian researchers had undertaken with Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to help people climb Mount Everest – which is something that caught our eye! The researchers, Dr Bas Altena and Professor … Continue reading
A couple of interesting reports have come out of Brazil this week concerning the monitoring of deforestation from space. Firstly, it was reported that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch the first Earth Observation satellite designed, … Continue reading
