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 has seen several satellite launched around the world, with new Earth Observation (EO) satellites going up, together with the latest salvo in the space-based broadband battle. China Last weekend, China successfully launched three satellites on the Gravity-1 rocket, … Continue reading
In Europe we are entering the summer holiday season, and people are starting to go away to relax and refresh themselves; however, there is no such slowdown in the Earth Observation sector with the potential for a launch three times … Continue reading
This week we’re offering you a fantastic opportunity to get involved with Earth Observation (EO) from your own home, through an exciting citizen project to classify clouds on satellite images, together with less positive news on potential EO budget cuts … Continue reading
Looking at the latest satellite launches from China, alongside first light images released by BlackSky, and the layoffs in the United States which could impact the Earth Observation (EO) sector. Latest Chinese Launches Last Thursday saw the launch of two … Continue reading
Next Monday, 20th January, Donald Trump once again becomes President of the United States, and so this week we’re looking at some potential impacts this might have for the Earth Observation (EO) sector. However, it should be noted that this … Continue reading
Last week, the White House allocated a $25.4 billion budget to NASA for the 2025 financial year, which runs from the 1st October 2024 to 30th September 2025, and this includes its Earth Observation ambitions. This represents $2.3 billion less than … Continue reading
The latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite launches are from Russia, with the next expected launch being from Japan, and details of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) datasets publicly available from America. Leapling Russia Satellite Launch On the 29th February the Soyuz-2-1b … Continue reading
It’s not often that satellite ground-based calibration methodology hits the headlines, but it happened last week. This was because the United States Bureau of Land Management announced that following a request from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), approximately … Continue reading
Last week I attended the June member meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. OGC is a consortium of geospatial experts committed to improving access to geospatial information, and supporting data exchange through standards. We were … Continue reading
