Landsat will celebrate fifty years of Earth Observation (EO) this weekend. The first Landsat mission was Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS-1), which was launched into a 570-mile sun-synchronous near polar orbit on the 23 July 1972 by a Delta … Continue reading
One of the key global challenges is food security. A number of reports issued last week, coinciding with World Food Day on the 16th October, demonstrated how Earth Observation (EO) could play a key part in tackling this. Climate change … Continue reading
Remote sensing is a relatively young industry, but it doesn’t mean we don’t have history. We do. We shouldn’t it, and were reminded why this week as we bounced back through time. We noticed an introductory tweet yesterday from the … Continue reading
