GHGSat-C1, or “Iris”, was launched into an orbit of 515 km and is the first of a new constellation of satellites that detect emissions at a very high resolution. By the end of 2022, GHGSat plans to have ten high-resolution spacecraft in orbit.
UP42 customers can now use the Vultus Fertilization Zoning Maps algorithms for crop management, with more agricultural technologies coming soon.
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has been using satellite imagery to measure vehicle mobility on the roads and at shopping centres during South Africa’s lockdown, a national measure intended to slow the spread of the Coronavirus outbreak. Mobility was measured against conditions prior to lockdown.
ESA’s Aeolus satellite mission data is now being distributed publicly to forecasting services and scientific users in less than three hours of measurements being made from space.
By opening up its platform and marketplace of Earth observation data and analytics for free the company hopes to support those working on developing and deploying projects dedicated to the COVID-19 response to achieve their goals.
Five data scientists emerged as winners of Radiant Earth Foundation’s competition, in partnership with Zindi Africa, to create a machine learning model that classifies farm fields in Kenya by crop type using time series of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery collected during the growing season.
The USGS is approaching the final phases of preparing to process and make available Landsat Collection 2 to the user community in mid-2020.
GroundWork is a tool that creates training data for machine learning models run on geospatial imagery. The company has been using it internally for six months already, and is now opening access to everyone looking to label geospatial imagery, for free.
SANSA has been mapping and monitoring human settlement developments in the country using high-resolution imagery to provide base data that can be used to support campaigns aimed at managing the spread of the Coronavirus/COVID-19.
Picterra has made access to existing aerial and satellite data an easy task via its portal: https://picterra.ch/imagery. Here users can find free data ready to import to the Picterra platform for extraction and analyses. The portal also offers the option to order new satellite and aerial imagery, with more seamless imagery access options to be introduced in the coming weeks.