May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... is to find these vessels when the tracking systems are switched off. OceanMind turns to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Electro-Optical (EO) satellites to locate any vessels in an area of interest and investigates them fully to ascertain what...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
...representing an important technique to locate potential sites of ML accumulation. As of today, radar, and in particular Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), has the potential to detect and track floating ML items roughly meter-sized or larger, for example...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
... in crops, pollution, or underground mineral deposits. Meanwhile, commercial groups have condensed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology to fit on a small satellite platform, providing operators the advantage of seeing through clouds and...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
...data measurements of vegetation from space; Iceye, a Finnish firm whose future 18-spacecraft synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microsatellite constellation will revisit targets of interest every few hours to enable better decision making in governmental...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... hyperspectral payloads for monitoring Earth’s land and oceans, sensitive atmospheric monitoring payloads, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), security focused quantum key encryption and miniaturised propulsion advances for cubesats. The next steps will...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... mitigate their risks, after the failure in the early reporting of the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) reformed the International Health Regulations (IHR) in 2005. The amended...
