The Centre for EO Instrumentation (CEOI) has announced the release of their 13th Call for EO Technology and Instrumentation Development Proposals. This Call invites proposals for world-leading and high-impact CEOI Flagship projects to enhance national capability in EO technologies, with a particular focus on climate, environmental and societal applications. The budget Read more…
Ministers today (30 December) announced backing for ground-breaking research analysing satellite images that will better predict the future impact of climate change in towns and cities and inform future government action. A new £5 million satellite data centre involving the Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds will use cutting-edge satellite technology Read more…
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) exists to assess and mitigate the effects of desertification and drought at national and international levels through a programme of strategic international cooperation and partnership. First recommended as part of Agenda 21, and becoming active in 1996, it is the only internationally Read more…
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) announces the appointment of Phil Brownnett as Managing Director, succeeding Sarah Parker who is stepping down from the role to pursue new challenges. Phil Brownnett, who is currently Managing Director of Geo Intelligence (UK), Airbus Defence and Space, will take up his new position on Read more…
The UK Space Agency has announced it will invest £374 million per year with the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver international space programmes over the next 5 years. The UK is one of the founding members of ESA, an inter-governmental organisation established in 1975 to promote cooperation in space research, Read more…
Satellite technology could be used to support the clean up of UK nuclear sites, as part of a new Space Data Challenge launched by the UK Space Agency in collaboration with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). The Nuclear Decommissioning Space Data Challenge will encourage smaller businesses and university start-ups to Read more…
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has signed an agreement with Republic of the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) to provide a share of the tasking and data acquisition services from NovaSAR-1, the innovative small S-Band radar satellite launched into a 580km sun synchronous orbit Read more…
The Space Placement in Industry (SPIN) scheme, which is managed by the UK Space Agency, was created to provide a link between companies working with the space and earth observation industries and those people looking to gain experience in these fields. BARSC member company, 2Excel Geo supported ‘Spintern’ Loreena Jaouen Read more…
Specto Natura is part of the team selected by EC DG Environment to monitor Natura 2000 sites using Copernicus products The Cop4N2K project is led by space4environment of Luxembourg and includes Gisat (CZ), Bilbomatica (ES), Specto Natura (UK) and the Environment Agency of Austria. The team was awarded a service Read more…
As has become tradition, the sun shone down on the members of the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies as they gathered together at the Bluebird Restaurant on London’s King’s Road for the annual BARSC Annual General Meeting and Lunch, last week. In the impressive surroundings of the Beaufort Room, Read more…