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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Innovative UK space technology protects Malaysian coastline from oil slick

The Satellite Applications Catapult, leading a consortium of innovative UK companies, has successfully created a system that can automatically detect oil slicks from space and...

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Satellite Applications Catapult to grow presence in Wales

The Satellite Applications Catapult is today announcing that it will open a new regional office at the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre in Llanbedr, Gwynedd. The office,...

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