May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... scope within the research community has been limited. Naryan Prasad, co-founder of Satsearch.co looks at how Space big data, together with financial technology, can be used in India for the benefit of farmers and to create a possible e-governance...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... worldwide vessel behaviour that may be putting marine reserves at risk. Satellite imagery, geospatial technology and big data are used to spot, identify and investigate abnormal or potentially illegal fishing activity across the world’s oceans...
09 May 2016
'Big Data' issues to be discussed at GLIS 2016
... on Space and the Information Society – GLIS2016 will analyze how Space is affected by big data in numerous ways; in that, it is a producer of big data sets - e.g. the European Earth Observation and Monitoring System Copernicus; it is confronted with...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... observation satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles, mobile devices such as smart phones, social media, and the emergence of big data and artificial intelligence are causing a dramatic change in the character of war and diplomacy. This change offers...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... a corresponding growth in demand could oversupply the market. The main uncertainty is the actual role of space data in a big data world with data also coming from other information sources (drones, crowd-based and in situ in a connected world). For...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... fitted with varying payloads. Therefore, space activity is following the general trend of information technology development, i.e. “big data” use. Lengthy licensing procedures and a poorly developed legal base are other major problems that stall ...
