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Counting elephants from space
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
For this research, the satellite Worldview 3 used high-resolution imagery to capture African elephants moving through forests and grasslands. The automated syst...
Satellite-powered app to spot loneliness in hotspots in UK cities
Jan 19, 2021 (SPX)
This comes on what is known as Blue Monday (18 January), said to be the most depressing day of the year with post-Christmas blues and dark cold nights. Science ...
Earth Observation data could represent a billion-dollar opportunity for Africa
Jan 18, 2021 (SPX)
The newly released report Unlocking the Potential of Earth Observation to address Africa's critical challenges lays out the multiple economic benefits from EO d...
Dust from the deep sea provides clues to future wind patterns
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
Typically, the westerlies blow from west to east across the planet's middle latitudes. But scientists have noticed that over the last several decades, these win...
Winds of change: German weather maps to herald nation's diversity
Jan 05, 2021 (AFP)
Besides Ahmet, Germans will soon see names like Bozena, Chana and Erhan on weather maps as part of a drive to raise awareness of a lack of representation in the...
Subscriptions to satellite alerts linked to decreased deforestation in Africa
Jan 05, 2021 (SPX)
The carbon emissions avoided by reducing deforestation were worth between $149 million and $696 million, based on the ability of lower emissions to reduce the d...
A new TanSat XCO2 global product for climate studies
Dec 31, 2020 (SPX)
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (24th Conference of the Parties, COP24) will conduct a climate change action global stock-take for each of five yea...
China launches new remote sensing satellite
Dec 28, 2020 (XNA)
The satellite, Yaogan-33, was launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. It was the 357th flight mission of the Long Mar...
2020 weather disasters boosted by climate change: report
Dec 27, 2020 (AFP)
The same disasters claimed at least 3,500 lives and displaced more than 13.5 million people. From Australia's out-of-control wildfires in January to a record nu...
DLR study investigates mobility in the renewed lockdown
Dec 25, 2020 (SPX)
Significant decline in Christmas travel An overwhelming majority - 80 percent of respondents - said that they did not plan to travel over the festive season. On...
How scientists are using declassified military photographs to analyse historical ecological change
Dec 18, 2020 (SPX)
Ecologists have harnessed new advances in image processing to improve analysis of declassified US military intelligence photographs and detect previously unseen...
Cholera outbreaks predicted using climate data and AI
Dec 18, 2020 (ESA)
Cholera is a waterborne disease caused by the ingestion of water or food contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which can be found in many coastal reg...
UP42 to Offer Smart Satellite Data from Australia's LatConnect 60 on the UP42 Geospatial Marketplace
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
In early 2022, LatConnect 60 will launch its first two "smart" small satellites equipped with onboard Artificial Intelligence (AI) for data pre-processing and a...
Teledyne e2v signs detector supply contract for Copernicus Sentinel MAP instrument
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
The Capella CMOS image sensors are radiant tolerant, feature a large area resolution of 2048 x 2048, 10um pixels, and operate in the UV-NIR wavelengths. The MAP...
The natural 'Himalayan aerosol factory' can affect climate
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
The emitted particles may eventually affect climate by acting as nuclei for cloud condensation. These new findings about particles formation and sources will co...
Swedish Space Corporation invests in UK Swedish start-up Globaltrust
Dec 11, 2020 (SPX)
This initiative is being led by SSC and is supported by the UK's Satellite Applications Catapult - a government established not-for-profit company with its core...
Beyond Ice: NASA's ICESat-2 shows hidden talents
Dec 10, 2020 (SPX)
When ICESat-2 sent back its first measurements on the heights of Earth's surface in early 2019 the ICESat-2 science team lead, Lori Magruder of the University o...
Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation
Dec 09, 2020 (ESA)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching consequences on the global aviation industry. As a result of the imposed national restrictions on mobility, passenger...
Teledyne e2v wins UK grant to develop AI processes for intelligent EO detection systems
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
Earth Observation (EO) satellites have a significant role in monitoring both the causes and effects of climate change. This includes detecting and identifying s...
Contract signed for new Copernicus ROSE-L mission
Dec 07, 2020 (ESA)
With launch planned in 2028, ROSE-L will provide continuous day-and-night all-weather monitoring of Earth's land, oceans and ice, and offer frequent images at a...
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