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
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Last week the Midlands and the North of the UK was subject to a weather system with heavy and persistent rain. In fact, a weather station in Sheffield recorded its greatest ever metrological autumn rainfall of over 425 mm, breaking … Continue reading
The Arctic currently has hundreds of wildfires stretching across northern Russia, northern Scandinavia, Alaska and Greenland. It’s strange to think that one of the coldest places on the planet is on fire, but it is! Fires are not unusual in … Continue reading
This week Sentinel-2A celebrated its 4th birthday, as it was launched on the 23rd June 2015 from French Guiana. It was followed by its twin, Sentinel-2B, which was launched almost two years later on the 7th March 2017. These two … Continue reading
In the second part of our ESA Living Planet Symposium review, we’re going to concentrate on the Copernicus Programme as it’s one of the main factors driving innovation in the Earth Observation industry at the moment. Key sessions during the … Continue reading
We’re so used to seeing headlines about humans destroying the rainforests, swaths of deforestation and our activities affecting the climate; seeing a report suggesting we are making the planet the greener caught our attention. ‘China and India lead in greening … Continue reading
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND BEST WISHES FOR 2019 from everyone at Pixalytics
Two interesting, and indirectly linked, articles were published in the last few weeks looking at how satellite imagery and remote sensing techniques are being used to monitor changes in glaciers across the globe. Firstly, the paper ‘Global Assessment of Supraglacial … Continue reading
Last week I attended the 38th Annual European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Symposium, which took place on the Greek island of Crete. The theme of the Symposium was Earth Observation Supporting Sustainability Research and it ran alongside the … Continue reading
