Spatial Finance Initiative announces new advisory board
‘Spatial finance’ is the integration of geospatial data and analysis into financial theory and practice. Earlier this year four leading institutions – The Alan Turing Institute,...
News and Comment
Humans on the Moon: extracting reality from the hype of recent announcements by NASA, SpaceX, China and Russia
This piece was written by Pat Norris. Pat worked as a NASA contractor on the Apollo programme in Houston from 1967 to 1970 then returned...
Space Applications
Global Market Matrix Report
The Satellite Applications Catapult commissioned Bryce Space and Technology Limited to undertake a study to create an annual snapshot of the opportunities for satellite applications,...
Waterloo Bridge Monitoring: Comparing Measurements from Earth and Space
Catapult co-author: Cristian Rossi Satellite radar imagery is becoming more accessible, and at improving spatial and time resolutions. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) has the...
Towards Sentinel-1 SAR Analysis-Ready Data: A Best Practices Assessment on Preparing Backscatter Data for the Cube
Catapult co-authors: T Freemantle, C Williams, T Jones, C Rossi, A Syriou This study aims at assessing the feasibility of automatically producing analysis-ready radiometrically terrain-corrected...
The People Experience – Action Learning at the Catapult
Kathryn Jeacock was the previous Head of HR here at the Satellite Applications Catapult. In September 2019 she, along with the Action learning team at...
Satellite Applications Catapult to invest in Earth Observation expertise in the East Midlands
The Satellite Applications Catapult today announces it will grow its presence in the East Midlands, supporting the Manufacturing, Engineering, Technology and Earth Observation Centre (METEOR)...
Open Cosmos announces development of ‘MANTIS’ Earth Observation satellite
At the occasion of the Earth Observation Phi-Week at the European Space Agency (ESA) centre in Frascati this week, a unique consortium of specialised space...
Horizon Technologies and the Satellite Applications Catapult to supply satellite data to the UK National Maritime Information Centre
Horizon Technologies and the Satellite Applications Catapult have signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Maritime Information Centre (NMIC) to supply satellite data from...
First data collected by Satellite Applications Catapult’s first In-Orbit Demonstration programme satellite
Following successful deployment from the International Space Station on 3rd July 2019 at 11.15am (BST), satellite for IOD-1 GEMS have successfully tasked the satellite to...
Understanding and Monitoring Natural Capital and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions
Even if they don’t realise it, most businesses derive benefit from the natural world and are exposed to risk where these are degraded. Where investment...
A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved?
Maral Bayaraa, Earth Observation Specialist at the Satellite Applications Catapult, travels down under to find out what a volcanologist, medic, geophysicist, geologist, forensic scientist and...