Current methods for locating new sources of uranium are time-consuming and expensive, often requiring governments and mining companies to fly planes over large swaths of lands in remote areas. With the wide variety of Earth observation data now easily accessible, allowing us to detect more and more from space at Read more…
The cold waters of coastal Maine are well known for their bounty of lobsters. But in recent years, the aquaculture industry has put Maine on the culinary map for a beloved bivalve, too. Nearly 3 million oysters are now harvested annually from Maine’s waters. Between 2003 and 2015, the oyster Read more…
The initiative to develop the Global Strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics (GSARS) came as a response to address developing countries’ lack of capacity to provide reliable statistical data on food and agriculture and to provide a blueprint for long-term sustainable agricultural statistical systems. The Resource Centre on the GSARS website Read more…
Published by the UK Space Agency, the magazine is bursting with the latest space sector news and packed with educational material. Click to read Space:uk Issue 47
From the GOV.UK Website: “In preparing to leave the EU, one of the UK’s core objectives is to ‘seek agreement to continue to collaborate with European partners on major science, research, and technology initiatives’. It is the UK’s ambition to build on its unique relationship with the EU to ensure Read more…
In a great example of what can be shown using satellite imagery, blogger Pierre Markuse has used Copernicus Sentinel data to highlight the damage a wild fire reaked on the vegitation of Western Greenland. Visit ‘Before and After Images of the Greenland Wildfire in July/August 2017‘ to see how satellite Read more…