Improvement in air quality also over Europe, learning for global heating?
The anti-corona measures that were implemented by many European countries in the course of March led to a lockdown of cities, regions and even...
Better air quality over China due to anti-corona actions
Three moths ago nobody would have considered a shut down of transport, local businesses and industrial facilities as a consequence of the fight against...
The obstacles holding satellite remote sensing from going mainstream
Imagine it’s the early 80s. You meet one of your geeky friends, and he tells you about this fantastic new tech he’s working on:
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From millions of satellite images to deforestation alert: Answering the 3 most frequently-asked questions
At Satelligence, we help companies and NGOs around the globe to end deforestation with satellite-based information. Reliable, real-time, and relevant. When we talk about...
Australia bushfires as seen from space: Satellite pictures reveal overwhelming scale
When Australia’s fire season begun in September 2019, nobody could have imaged it would turn out to be one of the worst seen in...
ESA Phi Week 2019
From 9 – 13 September 2019 the Phi week, organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), took place in its ESRIN facilities in Frascati...
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...