October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... leading role in facilitating space technology development with the identifi cation of ground sector activities and remote sensing technology as potential areas, and the importance of international collaboration. This resulted in the formation of the...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...Thus, accurate knowledge is needed of the distribution of H2O/H2O+ in the exosphere which can hopefully be gained from remote sensing instruments on board JUICE. Jupiter’s moon Europa. Opportunity The plausible, but not conclusively proven, existence...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... heterogeneous. In a study on the State and Health of the European EO Services Industry [4], the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies reports 451 EO services companies in Europe (and Canada) in 2014. The majority of companies (63 percent...
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...
August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
... earliest satellites was a limitation that has been an issue for SAR ever since. Seasat, the first remote sensing satellite for Earth observation with a synthetic aperture radar, was launched in 1978 and had a total mass...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... acknowledges being used for military purposes. Military intelligence satellites generally provide something vague such as ‘remote sensing’ as their purpose. However, some countries, including Russia, have recently been providing more accurate...
