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ESA selects Harmony as 10th Explorer mission
Sep 25, 2022 (ESA)
Pivotal to ESA's FutureEO programme, Earth Explorers are pioneering research missions that show how novel observing techniques lead to new scientific findings a...
China launches new satellite for environment detection
Sep 22, 2022 (XNA)
The Yunhai-1 03 satellite was launched at 7:15 a.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-2D carrier rocket. The satellite will be mainly used for detecting the atmosp...
How do satellites monitor the ozone layer
Sep 22, 2022 (ESA)
ESA has been involved in monitoring the ozone for over two decades. Today, 16 September, marks the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer and...
Spire Global awarded $10M NOAA contract to deliver satellite weather data
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
The award, valued at $9.9 million, is the third multi-million dollar NOAA contract Spire has received in FY22. Spire will provide NOAA with 3,300 RO profiles pe...
HawkEye 360 adds new radar and communication signals to RFGeo
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
Leveraging overhead collected UHF and VHF geolocated signal data, analysts can increase the efficiency of their workflows by rapidly discovering emitters of int...
4M Analytics secures $30M Series A Extension to become the Google Maps of the Subsurface
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
Over the years the subsurface has turned into an enormous maze of utilities, one that was never recorded nor mapped. Every day more and more utilities go into t...
Maxar awarded G-EGD contract renewal to provide mission-ready imagery for US Govt
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
With this award, Maxar will continue providing more than 400,000 U.S. government users with unclassified, online and offline, on-demand access to high-resolutio...
BlackSky gets $14M in new orders to monitor critical global economic activity
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
"These awards underscore the growing demand for commercial real-time, AI-driven monitoring services that reveal economic activity at manufacturing hubs, major m...
Spire expands contract with NASA for EO data
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
The award is in support of NASA's SigNals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation, or SNOOPI mission. The Purdue University and NASA team, led by Professor James G...
Planet announces new details of hyperspectral offering
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
In combination with Planet's existing medium (3-5 meter resolution, Dove) and high-resolution (<1 meter resolution, SkySat and future Pelican) constellations, t...
AiDash overhauls utility industry's hazard tree identification with satellite technology and AI
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
The innovation, developed and validated in the field with AiDash customers and staff arborists, uses satellite technology and AI to rapidly inspect each and eve...
World's first satellite with both SAR and Optical Payloads will revolutionize geospatial imaging
Sep 15, 2022 (SPX)
The four companies intend to solve a vexing legacy challenge for consumers of remote sensing data. Typically, satellite constellation operators have deployed sp...
Atmospheric scientists study under-researched role of clouds in regulating Earth's temperature
Sep 15, 2022 (SPX)
University of Houston Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Yunsoo Choi is studying the interaction between clouds and aerosols, the tiny partic...
Taking the dazzle out of CryoSat yields a first
Sep 15, 2022 (ESA)
A paper published in Nature describes how scientists have now found an ingenious way of removing the pesky problem of dazzle from surface meltwater to yield the...
Planet Partners with Taylor Geospatial Institute to leverage data food security and more
Sep 15, 2022 (SPX)
Bringing together eight midwestern universities and research centers, TGI aims to harness innovation in geospatial science and make scientific discoveries that ...
Proposed Tandem4EO constellation will combine radar and optical imaging for Europe
Sep 15, 2022 (SPX)
Current ICEYE manufacturing and R and D facilities in Jumilla, Spain, and the headquarters of SATLANTIS in Bilbao, Spain, will be at the heart of the developmen...
Foundation model improves accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
Remote sensing images has been successfully applied in many fields, such as classification and change detection, and deep learning approaches have contributed t...
MTG-I1 weather satellite shows off
Sep 12, 2022 (ESA)
The satellite is in its very last stages of being checked and readied for shipment to Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The ship, carrying the Meteos...
JAXA startup Tenchijin releases free land evaluation app using EO data
Sep 09, 2022 (SPX)
The use of satellite data has been attracting attention, but it has tended to have an image of being expensive and difficult to handle. Therefore, Tenchijin, In...
Albedo raises $48M to capture the highest resolution satellite imagery
Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)
Participation in the round included new investors Republic Capital, Giant Step Capital, and C16 Ventures, along with existing investors Initialized Capital, Joe...
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