March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... provide very high processing capacity for short periods of time. This concept is perfect for EO-based environmental monitoring, which often needs to process the latest acquisitions and compare them to historic information at global scales. A really...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... variables to be collected, so precisely, and over such long periods, there are still gaps in our ability to adequately monitor climate change The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) had made all of its...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... of new research by real-world problems. One of the outcomes was the creation of a new facility, Climate & Environmental Monitoring from Space, or CEMS (see inset), to provide companies with the ability to develop new commercial applications based...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
...less than half a second later, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope identified... review by The Astrophysical Journal. Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor can detect radiation through a wide energy range from X-rays...
10 April 2020
A recently discovered stellar black hole could be the most massive yet, say astronomers
A team of Japanese scientists using MAXI (The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image), an instrument attached to...J1348−630 was first discovered on 26 January, 2019 and was continually monitored for a further 176 days after being found. The X-rays emanating ...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... the more detailed picture that emerges through scientific and technical lenses, such as the Massive Collision Monitoring Activity (MCMA). There are thus significant differences in the very ontologies employed by the various disciplines concerned...
