Highlighting two contrasting approaches to satellite sovereignty within the Earth Observation (EO) sector this week, starting with news on the demise of Sentinel-1A and then moving onto interesting reports from Russia. Sentinel-1A Following last week’s blog about the contract for … Continue reading
One of the key benefits of Earth Observation (EO) is the principle of data continuity – this is having uninterrupted, consistent, long-term datasets available over large areas. This is critical for a variety of reasons, such as understanding what is … Continue reading
Last night saw the successful launch of Sentinel-1D aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket was launched just after 22:00 (CET) and was put into a sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 693 kilometres. As … Continue reading
Last week, on Earth Day, the European Space Agency (ESA) and IBM Research Europe launched the first version of TerraMind, a powerful next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, that aims to leverage the world’s satellite data to better understand the planet … Continue reading
Next Tuesday, 3rd December, is the current scheduled launch date for the Sentinel-1C satellite. The launch is planned to take off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 10.20 p.m. (CEST) aboard the Vega C rocket launcher, which should … Continue reading
Water has constantly been in the headlines over the last few months. In northern Europe there has been a scarcity of water and concerns about drought, although the rains are starting to arrive. Compare this with Pakistan that has suffered … Continue reading
Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) issued an article about the MARLISAT project tracking marine plastic litter using a combination of in-situ and satellite data together with a computer model. We’re delighted as this is a project we’ve been … Continue reading
Latest news in the world of Earth Observation (EO) includes the launch of two new satellites, and the latest updates on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 constellation. Gaofen-3 03 Last Thursday, China successfully launched the Gaofen-3 03 EO satellite … 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
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
