May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... State backing and the hesitancy of private sector insurance companies to step in due to the absence of historical data. Satellite data, integrated with ground and financial parameters, can serve to the betterment of farm communities around the world...
October 2026
Singapore – a small nation with big space ambitions
... is another area where the use of space technology is growing. Singapore’s Earth Observation Initiative, for example, is using satellite data to address issues such as food and water quality, disaster response and land management across the Asia...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
..., monitor the Earth’s climate and well-being and provide information for national security. In short, without satellite data, the lives of people around the world would be dramatically different. Unfortunately, just as humans have polluted the...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... scope of a crisis such as that caused by Covid-19 and can promote transparency and accountability around efforts to combat it. Satellite data might also help warn about future epidemics by tracking areas that have the potential for outbreaks...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... during its early years and the ever-increasing demand for satellite data and services, along with the associated increase in launches and orbiting satellites, raises challenging questions for the long-term sustainability of space activities...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... oceans and the ice sheet thickness that blankets Greenland and Antarctica. When combined with other satellite data, analyses showing how the volume of Earth’s ice is changing leads to a better understanding of the relationship between ice...
