April 2019
Cleaning up space
... to inflict significant consequences on many market sectors including communications, transport, agriculture, finance, environmental monitoring, and defence and security. In space, as in any sector, so long as there is investment in infrastructure...
August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
... from the ICEYE constellation will find application in urban planning, tracking port activity, sea ice monitoring, environmental monitoring and agricultural applications. Although not aiming for the highest possible resolution due to the physical...
June 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... on space-based resources to go about our daily lives (telecommunications, weather monitoring, navigation, national security, entertainment, agriculture, environmental monitoring and so on) means we are increasingly susceptible to the vagaries of the...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
... includes a toilet (gravity based) and a sink for personal hygiene. The ‘monitoring and ventilation rack’ is comprised of two small racks and includes the environmental monitoring system, the air conditioning and two ventilation units. The final...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
...in addition to those already offered by the 3U Gaia system include agricultural monitoring, urban planning and environmental monitoring. Agricultural and environmental applications are especially interesting where the imager’s high-performance optics...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... the nuclear and ballistic missile activities of the closed society of North Korea. Similarly, environmental monitoring satellites allow users to monitor the impact of climate change in generally inhospitable regions such as the Arctic and Antarctic...
