March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... data does not fulfil its potential value. An example would be a data scientist with limited geospatial and remote sensing skills who integrates the analytics from satellite data, such as the number of buildings in a city, for developing...
April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
... for the impact of multiple stressors on the spread of mosquito-borne diseases is only just emerging and by using remote sensing data this work makes a major contribution to this. In data-scarce countries like Vietnam, the use of EO data...
23 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...
07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... to the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) with plans to create a unified system to remotely sense Earth. Glavkosmos is already in discussion with Brazil for a tender for the delivery of space images to this emerging...
23 January 2019
Construction of Russian super-heavy rocket gets approval
... well as conduct flights to the Moon. At the same meeting Rogozin also discussed the creation of a constellation of remote sensing satellites dubbed the Sovereign's Eye ('Gosudarevo Oko'). “We have presented a new project, which I consider extremely...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... a Radio and Plasma Waves experiment to measure magnetic and electric fields at high time resolution, plus many remote-sensing instruments to image the Sun in various wavelengths. "There are dozens if not hundreds of science topics where we hope...
