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Resilient Earth
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Company Spotlight: Agrimetrics

Published: November 19, 2020

“The Satellite Applications Catapult bravely leaves the technical stuff at the door when approaching bringing new innovations to business, instead focusing on solving the real...

Beyond Earth
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UK Launch Vehicles Webinar: A Summary

Published: November 18, 2020

As a high growth and high productivity sector, space launch offers a unique opportunity for the UK economy and job market; with the market for...

Resilient Earth
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Geospatial Intelligence in Agriculture

Published: November 16, 2020

Contributors: Electra Panagoulia, Sarah Cheesbrough, and Cristian Rossi. At the start of lockdown earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, scenes of long queues...

Resilient Earth
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Delivering Agricultural Innovation Worldwide

Published: November 9, 2020

There are huge opportunities and challenges facing the earth, from climate change and recovering from COVID to autonomy. Many of these are going to require...

Resilient Earth
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Agriculture & Space: The UK Landscape & Beyond

Published: October 22, 2020

In January 2020, the Satellite Applications Catapult published a detailed document which included 195 companies from across various sectors: outlining their products, services, and capability....

Autonomous & Connected Earth
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5G Satcomms and Health

Published: September 15, 2020

The Catapult’s position to support the uptake of satellite-enabled technology and solutions has never limited us to only using data from satellites. We acknowledge that...

Beyond Earth
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RiR Week: Satellite Quantum Key Distribution

Published: September 7, 2020

Quantum computers threaten the security of the internet and secure communications. Current public key cryptography methods, such as RSA and ECC (see glossary below), could...

Resilient Earth
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RiR Week: Monitoring Air Quality on Earth with Instruments in Space

Published: September 7, 2020

My research team at University College London uses big data analysis and computer models to convert large and cumbersome satellite observations of atmospheric composition into...

Autonomous & Connected Earth
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RiR Week: Supporting CAV Development with Data

Published: September 7, 2020

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) offer a range of future of exciting opportunities, not just as a new form of transport modality but also a...

Resilient Earth
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RiR Week: Mapping Terrestrial Objects in Satellite Imagery with Machine Learning

Published: September 7, 2020

Forget the needle – finding a haystack in a satellite image is hard! Or even a whole farmstead, especially when it is a brown fence...

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