October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... capabilities, such as the now defunct Sentinel Satellite Project, but these have fallen short in ensuring that remote sensing data plays an important role in mitigating humanitarian crises. There are developments that may contribute to the use...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
...the Department of Telecommunications for ISRO. Similarly, EO data distribution to Indian users is performed by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), an arm of ISRO dealing with remote sensing data reception, processing and dissemination to users...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
...of mapping and understanding Mars has been greatly aided by the extensive orbital remote sensing of the planet provided by a series of spacecraft dating back to the ... of Martian surface materials and working with orbital remote sensing data of Mars.
22 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... over the moon’s interior, Yuto has helped to solve another mystery concerning olivine at Chang'e-3's landing site. Remote sensing data showed that the site was rich in olivine as well as titanium, but, as olivine usually crystallises early and...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... to the betterment of farm communities around the world However, in India, the production forecasting of crops using remote sensing data was initiated by the Indian Space Research Organisation in 2008, under the Forecasting Agricultural Output using...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... area necessarily implies an extraordinary demand for satcom bandwidth, precise Position, Navigation and Timing, and remote sensing data. New capabilities, offering greater connectivity, are increasing that level of extraordinary demand. Even before...
