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
Tag Archives: wildfires
Monitoring Wildfires From Space
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
Three Sentinel’s See Arctic Fires
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
Plant Temperatures, Artificial Intelligence and Super-Caffeinated Coffee!
These three items are all relevant to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which took off last Friday, 29th June, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5.42am EDT. The launch was bound for the International Space Station (ISS), you … Continue reading