PIESAT International Information Technology Limited, a leading satellite operation and application service provider has become the latest company to join the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC). From their UK offices in Wokingham, Berkshire the staff of PIESAT describe their company’s mission as “Serve the Earth & Space Community”, Read more…
A new National Space Council, to be established later this year, will provide strategic leadership on space across government, coordinating all aspects of the UK’s space strategy, investment and use of space through a new National Space Framework. Science Minister Chris Skidmore said: “As we approach the 50th anniversary of Read more…
AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE WITH A SECTOR ON THE MOVE Annual Conference Thursday 22nd March 2018 Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham, DH1 1TD This year’s conference focuses on highlighting the business opportunities that exist for developing data-led satellite applications to solve industry challenges. Organised on behalf of the North East Satellite Read more…
BARSC member and ‘New Space’ pioneer Earth-i today announced that images and video from its new prototype satellite due for launch early January 2018 will be managed, catalogued and geometrically corrected using software from Swedish photogrammetry and imagery specialist, Spacemetric. Earth-i is building the first commercial constellation in the world Read more…
BARSC member Geocento dicuss the available commercial optical and radar imagery collected by satellite suppliers in 2017. The available catalogues of these images are scanned and harvested multiple times per day by Geocento’s web application EarthImages, so that they can be discovered and ordered through the platform. Imagery is shown Read more…
BARSC member Pixalytics discuss the 2017 Big Data from Space Conference which they attended in Toulouse, France earlier this month. The event was o-organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC), and the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) and aimed to Read more…
BARSC member Earth-i attended an informative day hosted by Equity House at Chandos House in London, where geospatial professionals, academics, financial risk and commodity analysts from the US and Europe, came together to discuss ‘Satellite Imagery for the Markets’. It was a popular event, with great networking opportunities to meet Read more…
If you’ve spent much time in a large metropolitan area, you probably noticed that temperatures in the city tend to be higher than in surrounding areas. These temperature variations are known as urban heat islands (UHI). While these pockets of heat are a fact of life to city dwellers, they Read more…
BARSC member, The Satellite Applications Catapult, will be hosting a Satuccino from 2:30pm on Wednesday 6 December 2017 at their offices in Harwell, Oxfordshire. The Satuccino is a specially designed space industry networking event for space technology and satellite application sector companies engaged with the Satellite Applications Catapult. Satuccino gives Read more…
Scottish precision agriculture specialists SoilEssentials Ltd, in collaboration with BARSC member Deimos Space UK, have developed KORE; a new cloud-based land management platform. KORE is being presented at Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany 12-18th November. Visitors can find SoilEssentials and KORE on stand J29 in Hall 15 and enjoy the opportunity Read more…