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Transport Systems Catapult and Department for Transport: Traffic Management and Commercial Drone Operation

The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) will lead a research and development project by the DfT that will lay the groundwork and open pathways to commercial...

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Space – The Village Hall | TEDxTruro

Our COO, Lucy Edge shares her vision of how emerging space technologies can help us defy distance and time to create more diverse, inclusive and...

AHDB Satellites for Agriculture

In collaboration with AHDB, Satellite Applications Catapult has co-produced an overview of the opportunities that the space sector can offer to agriculture and farming. Focussing...

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The Geospatial Way to a Better World

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

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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UKSA Space for Forestry in Developing Countries

Developing nations have some of the most valuable forests which have come under threat from both legal and illegal deforestation, increasing human population, and commodities...

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UKSA Space for Disaster Resilience in Developing Countries

As part of a five-year £152million IPP programme run by the UK Space Agency, this report has been drafted by Caribou Space on the critical...

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UKSA Space for Agriculture in Developing Countries

This report, commissioned by the UK Space Agency, focuses on the challenges faced by the agriculture sector globally, such as unpredictable and extreme weather, loss...

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Support provided by OceanMind enables the Thai government to earn a ‘Green Card’ from the EU for fisheries export

We are excited to congratulate OceanMind, a former business unit of the Satellite Applications Catapult, on their contribution towards the Thai government earning their ‘green...

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The Satellite Applications Catapult partners with Infostellar to provide improved ground station access

The Satellite Applications Catapult and Infostellar have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide UK businesses with enhanced access to the Satellite Applications Catapult’s...

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A comparative review on the state and advancement of Site-Specific Crop Management in the UK and China

Catapult co-author: Dan Wicks Precision agriculture, and more specifically Site-Specific Crop Management (SSCM), has been implemented in some form across nearly all agricultural production systems...

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Integration of SAR Data Into Monitoring of the 2014–2015 Holuhraun Eruption, Iceland: Contribution of the Icelandic Volcanoes Supersite and the FutureVolc Projects

Catapult co-author: Cristian Rossi We report how data from satellite and aerial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations were integrated into monitoring of the 2014–2015 Holuhraun...

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