January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... Astrium (now Airbus DS) where she managed Business Development across Europe for the €3.2 billion joint ESA-EU Copernicus programme. She has a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of York, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Satellite...
January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
... together a solution that will serve them for years to come. The Irrawaddy River in Myanmar captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite in March 2017 after the harvesting season. Satellite data was used in climate-proofing water...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
.... A normally busy Frankfurt airport looks almost deserted amid the COVID-19 crisis in an image captured by Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 30 March 2020. The activities of those commercial businesses deemed “essential” included those...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... have direct links to the climate crisis. Dutch company OrbitalEye’s PIMSyS system uses free high-quality Copernicus data to monitor gas and oil pipelines from space. Of particular interest to OrbitalEye is Sentinel-1A’s SAR imagery, which...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... at the University’s Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics between 1985 and 1989. In 2006, he was appointed Head of the Copernicus Space Office and in 2016, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes.
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... experiencing a second ‘Copernican revolution’. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, astronomers were encouraged by the work of Nicholas Copernicus, who had died fifty years earlier, and the discoveries of Galileo Galilei. They had broken the...
