New EOS platform lets you run image processing tasks in browser
Most of your image analysis tasks that required ENVI or Erdas Imagine software are now available online thanks to EOS Platform. This new game-changing...
PAZ – the new “peace” satellite
Paz is the Spanish word for “peace” and regardless of its meaning the PAZ mission indeed constitutes a flagship mission of the Spanish Space...
Sentinel-3B launch and first images
The second Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, Sentinel-3B, was launched on 25 April 2018 to join its twin satellite Sentinel-3A in orbit. Flying in the same...
How Copernicus can support disaster management across the globe
Disaster management is an area where the use of satellite data can literally make a difference and even save lives. Copernicus, the European Union’s...
NOAA’s new satellite might just put an end to weather jokes
On a cold January night in 2015, Philadelphia’s then-Mayor Michael Nutter signed two disaster proclamations in anticipation of a “crippling and potentially historic” blizzard....
New opportunities for working with satellite imagery – everything you need in one place
LandViewer is a powerful satellite data processing and analytics platforms. It allows you to select a geographic area for analysis, choose various types of remote...
ESA launches the 1st MOOC on Radar Remote Sensing
With the advent of drones and drone mapping, remote sensing has now finally entered mainstream usage. A large community of people are already using...
Satellite images reveal the scale of devastation of Hurricane Irma
Last week Digital Globe published a series of striking satellite images taken before and after Hurricane Irma. It shows a terrible scale of destruction...
Using aerial data to augment stand count management
Plants thrive in sunlight and the farmer makes sure that crops are arranged and planted in a manner that will allow them to get...
This video ultimetely explains spectral remote sensing in under 6 minutes
Spectral remote sensing is an amazing science that lets you detect qualities of objects from a distance. It is based on the fact that different surface features reflect or absorb...
Satellogic raises $27M for building high-resolution earth observation satellites
Satellogic, an Argentian Earth Observation company has raised $27 million during their Series B funding round led by Chinese company Tencent as the lead, backed up...
Why is China messing with our GPS coordinates?
If you ever get 'Little Red Riding Hood, a big bad wolf may eat you' kind of lost in China, the last thing you...
Who invented the GPS? People behind the Global Positioning System.
That Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone could be proven in court 113 years after the original inventor Antonio Meucci died. Thomas...
Nighttime lights: The not-so-dark side of the Earth
The night may be dark and full of terrors for the fans of Game of Thrones, but the good folks at NASA have shown...
List of Top 10 Sources of Free Remote Sensing Data
The requirement for high quality remote sensing data is skyrocketing with the surge in the application of remote sensing techniques and with the ‘n’...
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