March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... and natural disasters. As such, the financial damage caused by a breach could be substantial. For instance, U.S. weather satellite data provided crucial early warning of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy that ravaged the northeast seaboard. Even with the...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... ventures that want to go beyond traditional Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) but using satellite data with ground based sensors in creating data stacks that can add specific industry and decision intelligence to an array of industries...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... raise questions of how to prove that states were not complying with the responsibility to protect, and satellite data could be an important source of evidence for these operations. Unfortunately, R2P is still a controversial concept and whether...
April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
...this new method has just been accepted for publication at a high impact scientific journal. Post-processing satellite EO data products - the D-MOSS team devised and implemented new post-processing techniques to overcome variations in coverage between...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... to Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center prior to its first test flight. Ordinary people are now seeing satellite data typically reserved for spy agencies and getting insights into the on-going crisis as they never have...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... and improved China’s weather forecast capabilities over time. Second generation satellites became operational in 2008 (LEO FY 3) and 2016 (GEO FY 4). Fengyun satellite data products are available to users all over the world and can be downloaded...
