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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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UK Small Satellites: High Flying

Published: December 11, 2018

This piece was written by Ewan Wright during his internship in our Access to Space team. It is well known that the UK punches above...

Satellite Applications Transforming COPD Prevention and Care

Published: November 27, 2018

Today is World COPD Day! This piece, written by our Health and Wellbeing expert, Adrian Smith, discusses the disease and how satellite applications are changing...

Copernicus Masters Finalist: TRACE – Tool for Recording and Assessing the City Environment

Published: November 27, 2018

Eloise Marais is an Associate Professor in Earth Observations at University of Leicester and is one of our three finalists in our Copernicus Masters Data...

Copernicus Masters Finalist: WindAI

Published: November 27, 2018

Daniel O’Connell and Jeremy Gondolf are the founders of WindAI, one of our three finalists in our Copernicus Masters Data Visualisation Challenge. WindAI is a...

Tailings Dams Monitoring using Satellite-Enabled Technologies

Published: October 29, 2018

Catapult Co-Authors: Maral Bayaraa, Stephen Spittle, Chris Williams, Vladimir Stoiljkovic Tailings dams risk reduction is one of the highest priorities within the mining industry and presents...

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