August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... community. Orbital Insights gathers its data through contracts with EO data owners and the start-up develops software to extract insights from satellite and aerial imagery. Trends in commercial imagery - resolution versus revisit. Another example...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
...or integrate into industries on the ground. A step beyond The proof of availability of several reliable and scalable (hardware/software) platforms, trends towards low-cost access to space, integration into industry 4.0, and global business models are...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... to stop the AI apocalypse’ (Vanity Fair, April 2017). Could it be that we have clumsily replaced androids with pure software in our fear of the artificial man? Slow and steady slope to 1984 Our emotional response to robots is increasingly...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
...and specifications of images from satellites were not coherent, so that the users had to employ a range of different software and interpretation skills for using satellite images. Japan’s Mount Fuji captured by Axelspace’s Hodoyoshi-1 micro satellite...
