Project Hephaestus
Building on the success of the Chilean Mining Project, Satellite Applications Catapult continued with the optimisation of the Hephaestus application. This application is a software...
News and Comment
Space-Enabled Applications for the Mining Sector Workshop
On 28 November, the Satellite Applications Catapult, European Space Agency, and United Nations Crime Institute (UNICRI) hosted a workshop to discover how space-enabled applications could...
Spaceport Cornwall investment is giant leap for science and innovation in the South West
The Cornwall Council multi-million pound investment in Spaceport Cornwall is set to revolutionise businesses, jobs and skills in the region. The University of Exeter has...
India clean air project calls for UK innovation
UK businesses are being invited to apply for an innovation project aimed at improving air quality and electric vehicle integration in India. The Innovating for...
Satellite Applications Catapult Annual Report 2018-2019
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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,...
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)...