Quarry One Eleven Moves to New Offices

Specialist marketing agency, Quarry One Eleven has moved to new offices on the Surrey Technology Park in Guildford, Surrey. As the user base for GIS, remote sensing and other mapping technologies increases rapidly, companies must be able to raise the benefits of their products and services above the noise of the competition. Quarry One Eleven [...]

DMCii increases downlink capacity with Svalbard ground station facilities

DMC International Imaging (DMCii) has signed an agreement with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) that will increase the volume of imagery acquired and the speed in which it can be delivered. The new facilities in Svalbard have allowed DMCii to receive 30% more data from day one, with the scope for significant further expansion in the [...]

Satellite imagery helps fight locust plagues in North Africa

DMC International Imaging (DMCii) is helping The Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) to predict the spread of locust plagues across North Africa as part of a pro-active approach to tackle the destructive phenomenon using satellite imagery. Every year, North Africa is subjected to locust plagues that threaten to decimate crops and endanger countries’ food security. The [...]

SSTL Demonstrate First High Altitude GPS Navigation Fix

An experimental GPS receiver, built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has successfully achieved a GPS position fix at 23,300km altitude – the first position fix above the GPS constellation on a civilian satellite. The SGR-GEO receiver is collecting data that could help SSTL to develop a receiver to navigate spacecraft in Geostationary orbit (GEO) [...]

GeoCento To Recruit Staff

GeoCento Ltd has received Technology Strategy Board SMART funding for development of a web-service for multi-satellite image search and planning. The company is currently looking to expand its team to support this development. GeoCento was established in December 2011 as a result of a conviction that the exploitation of earth imagery is being constrained by [...]

Pioneering UK project to improve land carbon intelligence accuracy and reliability

British satellite imaging company DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) is today launching a ground-breaking project with support from the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board to provide more accurate and reliable information about land carbon storage and how it changes over time. By building on established carbon modelling and satellite remote sensing techniques, this [...]

Disaster Monitoring Constellation is awarded AIAA Space Systems accolade

Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman and founder of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), yesterday accepted the 2012 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Systems award for the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC). The award, which was presented at the AIAA Space 2012 conference and exhibition at the Pasadena Convention Center in California, recognises outstanding [...]

SSTL announces the successful launch of exactView-1

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has announced the successful launch of exactView-1 into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 800km by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The 100kg exactView-1 is expected to be the highest detection performance commercial Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built and the fifth deployed satellite in [...]

Mapping Habitat Connectivity In the Dorset AONB

On behalf of the South West Protected Landscape(SWPL) and the Dorset AONB, Environment Systems has completed a pioneering study that identifies areas to prioritise action to arrest biodiversity decline, enhance existing habitats and create new ones. The work covered by this project has been carried out under the auspices of the EU Cordiale project for [...]

SSTL Announces exactView-1 Satellite Launch Date

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is announcing the planned launch of exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built, on 22nd July by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. exactView-1 (previously known as ADS-1b) was built under contract for exactEarth and will become the fifth deployed satellite [...]