Articles tagged: satellite monitoring

• August 2018 Monitoring marine litter by satellite

  ...health and cultural issues, as well as being harmful to marine life. ESA is now pioneering studies to find out if satellite monitoring could provide crucial data to support solutions towards cleaner seas. Marine litter (ML) can be defined as any item...

  • ESA
  • marine litter
  • ML
  • remote sensing
  • satellite monitoring
  Authors: Ian Carnelli     José Gavira Izquierdo     Luca Maresi     Paolo Corradi    
• August 2018 Earth observation game-changer

  ... mass of 1800 kg. Seasat’s main mission was to establish a new way of monitoring the world’s oceans. It was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of global SAR satellite monitoring to collect data on sea-surface movements, wave heights, sea ice...

  • ICEYE
  • optical satellite imaging
  • SAR
  • satellite aperture radar
  Authors: Rafal Modrzewski    
• 10 February 2022 SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm

  ...a design error or quality control issue. Space analyst David Todd, of the UK-based satellite monitoring agency Seradata, suggested that such a large number of satellites falling out of the sky in one go raised a number of serious questions for SpaceX...