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The UK Government’s Green Finance Strategy and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions

Published: July 16, 2019

Aligning private sector financial flows with clean, environmentally sustainable and resilient growth and strengthening the competitiveness of the UK financial sector. These are the ambitious...

Apollo 11: The Launch – 50 years on

Published: July 16, 2019

“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth” – William A. Anders, Lunar...

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SeDAS API – Python Client

Published: July 4, 2019

Did you know the SeDAS system has an API to allow programs to search and download data from it? It hasn’t had a lot of...

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Regional Support Partnership for Satellite Applications is extended in the South-Coast and South-West regions

Published: May 29, 2019

The Satellite Applications Catapult, in collaboration with the UK Space Agency (UKSA) have extended their partnerships with organisations in the South-West and South-Coast regions, through...

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Sustainable Finance Reporting Frameworks and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions

Published: May 21, 2019

The sustainable finance ecosystem is as vast and as complex as the overall finance sector that it is a part of. One way for data...

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Growing Sustainable Finance and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions 

Published: March 25, 2019

Sustainable Finance is becoming increasingly relevant as our economic activities, fuelled by a global finance sector, keep reaching and breaching the natural and social boundaries of our planet. More and more institutional investors...

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The Geospatial Way to a Better World

Published: January 31, 2019

Author: Asimina Syriou Asimina was an Earth Observation Specialist within the Geospatial Intelligence team at the Satellite Applications Catapult.   In November 2018, the Satellite Applications...

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Technology for Conservation

Published: January 15, 2019

Co-authors: Heather Garrick and Fernando Carballal The Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) is the largest direct threat to the future of many of the world’s most...

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ESNC Finalist: Putting the AR in SMART City

Published: December 20, 2018

The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is a distinguished name travels far and wide. To win a ESNC competition was high on our agenda, the...

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ESNC Finalist: actiGo

Published: December 12, 2018

This piece was written by the actiGo team, one of the finalists for the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) UK Challenge. In today’s fast-paced society,...

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