The latest high-res imagery at your fingertips
The quality of any satellite image is determined by its spatial resolution, and from this perspective, high-resolution imagery is undoubtedly beyond competition as it...
Landviewer Now Features Change Detection That Runs In Browser
The major utilization of remote sensing data has been to compare images of an area taken at different times and identify the changes it...
Lockheed Martin develops AI model for satellite imagery analysis
Satellite imagery analysis is fast becoming a highly lucrative business model for both commercial players and defense contractors. Just last month, Airbus launched a...
Helping farmers move from analog to digital farming with drones and remote sensing
The $5T global agriculture industry still relies on the observations of human scouts to determine crop conditions. This labor-intensive and error-prone method contributes to...
SIASGE – another Latin story
SIASGE (Sistema Italo Argentino de Satélites para la Gestión de Emergencias) stands for Italian-Argentine Satellite System for Emergency Management. It represents a joint programme...
Earth Explorers mission: Aeolus, “The Keeper of Winds”
At the end of August this year, European Space Agency was happy to announce the successful launch of their Aeolus satellite, creating an unprecedented...
Hurricane Season: Geospatial technology’s role in disaster preparation, response, and recovery
No matter what Hollywood thrillers like Geostorm suggest, we cannot use satellites to control natural disasters. What we can use satellites for, however, is...
What would happen if GPS failed?
The navigation apps we carry around in our smartphones may have made getting lost in foreign lands a distant memory, but our dependency on...
How 8 micro-satellites are unexpectedly trumping Landsat, Sentinel at flood detection
They are the hurricane-hunters, the wind-watchers, the storm-seers. But one year after the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, mission started sending in...
Meeting Harvesting – the startup that is using Geospatial tech to bring finance to...
In a world with over 7 billion people, which is set to reach over 10 billion by the end of the century, it is...
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....