• Copernicus: 25 years of European success

• GMES & Africa Strengthens Synergy with PolicyMakers to Address Climate Change Effects

• UK Space Agency Backs Satellite Applications Catapult, GHGSat Partnership for Methane Emissions Data Access

The Strategic Roadmap developed under the FIREFORUM project reflects the research and innovation strategy, with the EC and Member State funding agencies in mind as the prime audience. Download the pdf version of the road map for the following sectors

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• EU Maritime Security Strategy in this article published by GEOsmart Magazine.

• The Copernicus Marine Service is organising a two-hour training workshop to help journalists and science communicators better appreciate the importance of Copernicus marine data in storytelling.

• A new report by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and EUSPA highlights the many ways EU Space helps balance sustainable development with a rapidly growing global population.
• European Parliament’s science and technology panel publishes annual report
• GeoBuiz 2023: Global Geospatial Industry Market Size, Forecast and Growth Trends Report
• Geospatial Industry Map 2023

• Unlocking the full potential of Earth Observation in Europe is the theme of EXPANDEO 2023, the annual conference of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), which is taking place in Brussels 13 – 14 June.
• Intersolar Europe, the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry, is happening 13 – 16 June in Munich. Come learn how the industry is using EU Space to, for example, find the best location for placing solar panels.
• How do you innovate in uncertain times? EU Space can help! To learn more, join EUSPA at EBN2023, the largest gathering of European incubators, accelerators, science parks, innovation centres, and innovation supporters of all kinds. That’s taking place 14 – 15 June in Brno, Czech Republic.

• Commission puts forward €13.6B research budget for 2024, with €12.8B for Horizon Europe

• EU Global Action from Space:SIGN UP FOR FREE ❯

List of capdev meetings at CEOS

Materials (openly accessible) from ESA’s training course on EO (+ an upcoming SAR course focusing on Polarimetric SAR Interferometry )

• After reporting the loss of its only EO satellite, Azerbaijan selected Israel Aerospace Industries to build two EO satellites

• Canadian Space Agency Awards Spire and OroraTech Wildfire Detection Contract
• China launched an advanced EO satellite, called Fengyun 3G, with precipitation radar among other instruments

• China has operationalised a satellite data-derived platform to monitor ecological zones, which include over 30 percent of the country’s land area

• European Parliament has approved a new regulation that would ban goods linked to deforestation
• Eumetsat and ESA released the first images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager 1 (or Meteosat-12) which should improve short-term weather forecasting thanks to its improved resolution and new sensors

• ISRO launched an EO satellite equipped with a SAR instrument, called TeLEOS-2 for Singapore

• Italy, through ESA, has ordered 34 EO satellites with optical, SAR and hyperspectral sensors as part of its IRIDE constellation, from a number of local companies, worth €1.1B

• Leonardo DRS launched a thermal imaging radiometer with Loft Orbital to measure the Earth’s surface temperature from space

• UK Geospatial Commission has launched its commercial EO pilot project, together with Airbus Defence and Space, to provide access and test the use of EO data for up to 35 public sector organisations

• UK will launch a new SAR satellite called CarbSAR which will demonstrate Oxford Space Systems’ deployable antenna

The Strategic Roadmap developed under the FIREFORUM project reflects the research and innovation strategy, with the EC and Member State funding agencies in mind as the prime audience. Download the pdf version of the road map for the following sectors

AGRICULTURE	INFRASTRUCTURE	MARINE & MARITIME	RAW MATERIALS	URBAN DEVELOPMENT	WIND ENERGY

• Accenture is collaborating with climate intelligence provider Cervest to provide climate risk information to its clients spanning across industries

• ESA launched WorldCereal, the world’s first dynamic and open-source system to provide seasonally updated cropland and crop-type maps at 10-meter spatial resolution at a global scale

• Canadian Space Agency awarded a contract to EO startup OroraTech specialising in thermal infrared and Spire Global with its space-as-a-service offering to perform preparatory work for a wildfire-monitoring satellite

• Climate Engine launched SpatiaFi, a platform to provide private and public sector organizations insights into climate risks on Google Cloud

• CGI is working with UK’s Ordnance Survey to develop a develop water pollution predictive tool using satellite data and AI
• Data from the EU’s Copernicus programme shows that the ongoing wildfires in Alberta, Canada and in Siberia, Russia are worsening air quality and increasing carbon dioxide emissions.

• Deriving yearly global above ground biomass maps by combining data from JAXA’s L-band SAR ALOS mission and ESA’s C-band Sentinel-1 mission;

• How Apple Started Working with Satellite to Save Lives
• How Satellite Prevented a War for Water

• How satellites help wineries pick new climate-friendly sites

• ICEYE intros 1st-in-market satellite radar dwell capability

• LiveEO announced the launch of a solution to verify compliance of a supply chain with the EU’s Deforestation Regulation (for selected commodities);

• methodology behind the first map of all trees in Africa created using data from Planet’s EO satellites (paper)
• Microsoft’s Planetary Computer integrated a new dataset on biodiversity called Biodiversity Intactness, derived by EO analytics firms Impact Observatory and Vizzuality

• NASA launched a new project called OPERA (Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis) to provide data from multiple satellites for use by government agencies

• NASA partnered with the US Forest Service to build an inventory of the country’s oldest trees, with ground data complemented by the GEDI mission

• NOAA is also setting up plans for the next generation of polar weather satellites following the successful Joint Polar Satellite System, called NEON
• open data by Jed Sundwall (blog)

• Observatory on "roof of the world" takes Earth's temperature

• Rocket Lab launched the first two of four satellites of NASA’s TROPICS mission, which aim to provide hourly data on storms forming in the tropics

• Sticking to methane, the EU could push for a law that would require oil and gas companies in Europe to check their above-ground infrastructure every two-to-four months, and fix methane leaks they discover
• The EU-funded Copernicus Philippines Programme was launched to support the country with natural disaster monitoring and climate change adaptation

• The New Yorker published this interactive piece on the state of methane monitoring and the role of satellites such as MethaneSat

• Using data from French EO startup Kayrros, the Guardian reported that the methane emissions from the two main fossil fuel fields of Turkmenistan contributed more to global warming in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK
• Visualising Copernicus Earth observation data

• Weather intelligence firm Tomorrow.io announced the launch of a new solution that provides global precipitation forecast with a better (48-61%) accuracy for precipitation intensity compared to publicly-available products ;

• Apple announced an expansion of Restore Fund, its nature-based carbon removal initiative, the impact of which will be measured and monitored by EO - from providers such as Space Intelligence, Upstream Tech and Maxar

• EO platform startup Astraea launched satellite tasking capabilities allowing tasking of satellite imagery from providers like Planet

• EO platform startup SkyWatch is partnering with Urban Sky, a stratospheric balloon imaging startup to distribute their imagery through SkyWatch's data management and distribution platform, TerraStream

• A satellite from Terran Orbital Corporation, a US-based small satellite manufacturer, has enabled the demonstration of a space-to-ground optical link that successfully transmitted 200 gigabits per second
• Small Satellite Market to Worth USD 12.02 Billion by 2029

• Space-as-a-service firm Sidus Space signed a partnership agreement with Indian edge-computing startup SkyServe

• Spire Global reported $24.2M in revenues for the same period, a 34% YoY increase with contracts across its aviation, maritime and data businesse

• Airbus won a one year long pilot contract from the UK Geospatial Commission to provide public sector from 35 organisations with access to commercial, high resolution satellite EO data

• AXA Climate extended its strategic partnership with Planet specifically for the use of one of its Planetary Variables - Soil Water Content

• BlackSky reported $18.4M in revenues for Q1 2023, a 32% year-over-year (YoY) increase with contracts from government defense agencies

• BlackSky and Spire Collaborate to Offer Maritime Custody Service

• In its financial results for 2022, Satellogic reported that it made $6M in revenue and targets $30M to $50M for 2023

• L3Harris won a contract from NOAA valued at $275.2M to continue providing ground services for the GOES-R series of weather satellites

• Planet Labs Stock: Well-Positioned In A Growing Market (NYSE:PL)

• SSC awarded 2.26M€ contract by ESA for second phase of the optical ground network initiative NODES (https://sscspace.com/)

• SITAEL, an Italian small satellite manufacturer signed a contract with ESA to build four EO satellites with hyperspectral sensors as part of Italy’s IRIDE EO satellite constellation

• 3D geospatial platform, Cesium signed a research agreement with the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to explore the use of 3D data

• Size of the Prize: Assessing the Market for Edge Computing in Space

• National Workshop on “Earth Observations for Climate Services” - ISRO

• Amazon Web Services selected 14 startups for the 2023 AWS Space Accelerator including 4 EO startups

  • GRASP, which aims to build and launch an EO satellite constellation with air pollution monitoring sensors

  • Kawa Space, a geospatial intelligence startup

  • Little Place Labs, an edge computing startup

  • Lunasonde, which aims to launch an EO satellite constellation with radars for subsurface imaging of the Earth, the Moon and beyond

• Investment firm Seraphim Space selected nine startups to be part of its accelerator program, including two EO firms

  • An Indian startup, GalaxEye Space, which aims to launch a constellation of multi-sensor (multispectral + SAR) satellites

  • EarthEye, a startup from Singapore, which is building an EO platform for ordering and processing satellite imagery

• EO non-profit Radiant Earth (previously Radiant Earth Foundation) has announced the launch of two initiatives:

  • Source Cooperative, a data publishing utility to make it trivially easy for geospatial data providers to make data products available on the Internet;

  • Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation to increase adoption of highly efficient modern data sharing best practices;

• EU Global Action from Space: This initiative by the European Commission supports cooperation between EU Space companies and players from more than 110 countries globally. The EU Global Action on Space is targeted explicitly towards stakeholders from your country to benefit from the European Space Programmes (e.g., on Earth Observation, Satellite Navigation), its data, and services by supporting the set-up, strengthening, and deepening of international collaborations with the goal to reach commercial agreements. 

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List of capdev meetings at CEOS

Materials (openly accessible) from ESA’s training course on EO (+ an upcoming SAR course focusing on Polarimetric SAR Interferometry )

• Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, launched AquaWatch Australia, a a 'weather service' for water quality leveraging EO data

• China's hyperspectral Earth observation satellite put into use. China launched four X-band synthetic aperture radar satellites from private company Piesat Information Technology Co. Ltd. focused on interferometry applications

• China released public images from one of their more recent satellites, with a thermal infrared imaging instrument, and a hyperspectral imager, aimed at monitoring greenhouse gases and environmental applications

• DEWA's SAT-2 6U nanostatellite to launch in April

• Digital Earth Africa, the EO platform for Africa has received additional funding for three more years from its original donors
• Dubai’s Electricity and Water Authority will launch an EO satellite, Dewa Sat-2, with a multispectral sensor after the first mission Dewa Sat-1, which had an IoT sensor, for planning, operation, and maintenance activities

• Kenya set to launch its first earth observation satellite.  Kenya Space Agency to Launch First Operational 3U EO Satellite. Kenya will launch an EO satellite, designed and developed by SayariLabs, a Kenyan startup, on SpaceX’s upcoming launch

• NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claimed that the proposed spending reductions for US fiscal year 2024 could lead to cancellations of planned EO missions in the Earth System Observatory program
• Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), which provides open access to high resolution satellite imagery of the world’s rainforests has been extended by a year, until September 2024
• UAE and China have signed an MoU to advance meteorological technologies including satellite-based monitoring and China’s FengYun program
• The European Commission launched the first-ever EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence, which includes a pilot for new EO governmental service as part of the evolution of Copernicus

The Strategic Roadmap developed under the FIREFORUM project reflects the research and innovation strategy, with the EC and Member State funding agencies in mind as the prime audience. Download the pdf version of the road map for the following sectors

AGRICULTURE	INFRASTRUCTURE	MARINE & MARITIME	RAW MATERIALS	URBAN DEVELOPMENT	WIND ENERGY

• BlackSky commissioned its newly launched satellites in less than a day, and integrated the data into its geospatial intelligence platform
• dashboard of dashboards with climate-related indicators
• Data from NOAA showed that greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) continued to rise rapidly in 2022, Data from NOAA also showed that the average ocean surface temperature at the beginning of April rose to unchartered levels potentially risk of extreme weather events due to climate change
  

• Data from ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission showed low levels of soil moisture across Europe (see an example from France below) raising concerns about water supply, agriculture and energy production.

• Digital earth: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
• ESA’s SMOS, CryoSat and Swarm missions, which monitor soil moisture, ice and magnetic field respectively among other parameters, have been extended at least until the end of 2025
• ESA’s HydroGNSS mission, which planned to measure climate variables like soil moisture using a technique called Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reflectometry, will now be made up of two satellites (instead of one)
• Former NASA scientist and executive has joined the satellite image processing service unit launched by consulting firm, EY
• Hyperspectral Imagery, the technology and its applications
• UNEP MARS, will detect at least 40-50 episodes a month and make them public, with data provided by French startup, Kayrros and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
• Maxar announced an update to its global basemap, which will now be available at 30 centimeters per pixel. Maxar is also diversifying into imaging other satellites providing data for space situational awareness - here’s an image of Landsat 8 from a Maxar satellite (joining companies like HEO Robotics and AxelSpace)
  
• NASA’s GEDI mission, which collects LiDAR data from the ISS, was put in hibernation, but will continue to be operational until at least 2030
• paper summarising the considerations of EO and artificial intelligence for building agriculture solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Report from the UN found that more people are being affected by more disasters because decision-makers are failing to invest in risk mitigation

• Spire Global receives NRO contract for RF data

• The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission from NASA and CNES, which suffered a minor setback is now working as expected and downlinked its first images of water on the planet’s surface;

• Tomorrow.io announced the launch of ‘Gale,’ the first generative AI product (think ChatGPT) dedicated to weather and climate for businesses and governments to easily identify key trends, risks and opportunities

• BlackSky launched two high resolution optical imagery satellites with Rocket Lab, marking an end to its Gen-2 version (90 cm), before moving onto its Gen-3 satellites (50 cm) from 2024
• China launched four commercial weather satellites with GNSS radio occultation instruments, part of the Tianmu-1 constellation
• Descartes Labs was selected to be one of the technology partners by Comtech, a satellite telecommunications solutions provider
• Space Security Company True Anomaly Emerges From Stealth With $30M In Financing
• Spire entered into a long-term agreement with Switzerland-based ch-aviation, an airline insights platform to supply global flight analytics from its constellation of satellites with ADS-B sensors. Spire Global and PlanetiQ, both flying radio occultation instruments, won follow-on Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts by NOAA to compete for orders worth $59M
  

• The satellite launch vehicle market size is projected to grow from USD 15.7 billion in 2022

• The US National Reconnaissance Office awarded contract extensions to Aurora Insight (now owned by Maxar), HawkEye360, Kleos Space and Spire to evaluate radio-frequency data from their satellites (it looks like Terran Orbital and Umbra missed out after they were selected last year)
• The UK Geospatial Commission released a new digital map of underground pipes and cables in the UK
• The TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution) instrument from NASA aimed at measuring air pollution in North America, will launch later this week hosted on an Intelsat communication satellite

• D-Orbit's IRIDE satellite observation program receives €26-Million contract with ESA. D-Orbit, the Italian space logistics company signed a contract with ESA worth €26M to supply and operate one SAR satellite as part of the IRIDE constellation program of Italy (Thales Alenia Space was another awardee)

• Google awarded a $5M grant to the World Resources Institute as part of its Impact Challenge to study extreme heat and adaptation techniques, a project that will use EO among other sources
• Measat Wins New Oil and Gas Deal in Malaysia
• NASA Awards Iceye 5-Year Blanket Purchase Agreement

• NOAA has requested $6.8B in funding for FY 2024, an increase of roughly $450M for future weather satellite programs after reduced funding in 2023

• Thales Alenia Space won a contract from ESA to supply five SAR satellites and one optical satellite for the Italian EO constellation, IRIDE, worth €142M along with options for more orders
• US’ National Reconnaissance Office awarded six study contracts worth $300,000 each for hyperspectral satellite imagery to BlackSky, HyperSat, Orbital Sidekick, Pixxel, Planet, and Xplore;
• vorteX-io, a French startup received (in French) a grant of €2.5M from the European Innovation Council to create the first European flood and drought forecasting service with in-situ monitoring sensors

• IPCC report, look no further than this piece from CarbonBrief
• Geospatial Artha: Indian Geospatial Industry Outlook Report 2022,
• report presenting the importance of geospatial data for finance

• Airbus Intelligence webinar: Two-Pronged Approach: How Industries Are Using Diverse EO Datasets to Efficiently Improve Insights

• Belgian Earth Observation Day 2023

• Indo-Pacific GeoIntelligence 2023
• Up and above event will take place on 19 April in Brussels 
• online event from Geoawesomeness on EO for deforestation regulation.

• 2nd ISDE International Lectures with the theme of "The Digital Earth(s) of Citizens"

• 13th International Symposia on Digital Earth will be held from 11th to 14th July, 2023 in Athens, Greece (here)

• A SAR satellite from Iceye, purchased with the donations from Ukrainians, has helped detect and destroy thousands of pieces of Russian military equipment in five months of use

• Corteva Agriscience, one of the leading agriculture firms is collaborating with Ukrainian EO company, EOS Data Analytics to research the use of satellite imagery for crop monitoring applications

• Japanese EO company Axelspace announced partnerships with Space Compass, a venture building space data relay networks and Tokio Marine Holdings, an insurance firm, along with a new round of undisclosed funding

List of capdev meetings at CEOS

Materials (openly accessible) from ESA’s training course on EO (+ an upcoming SAR course focusing on Polarimetric SAR Interferometry )

• Data act: member states agree common position on fair access to and use of data

• Egyptian Space Agency has an EO satellite to its fleet, Horus-1, built and launched under strategic cooperation between Egypt and China

• EUMETSAT expert on the significance of satellites for flood and drought monitoring (interview)
• EU Space Programme is an essential tool for sustainable forest management

• Guyana Ministry of Natural Resources has signed a three-year contract with Maxar to provide imagery and insights for environmental monitoring;

• IRISS, the EU’s forthcoming satellite communications constellation, will soon compliment Galileo and Copernicus by providing independent, secure, resilient, cost-effective and seamless communication services. Read more in this article by Space.com.

• NATO is launching a new initiative to streamline the process of gathering, disseminating, and distributing satellite data for use by its members;

• The Canadian Space Agency awarded ten contracts worth $6.8M to five different companies in the country for EO-related R&D projects.

The Strategic Roadmap developed under the FIREFORUM project reflects the research and innovation strategy, with the EC and Member State funding agencies in mind as the prime audience. Download the pdf version of the road map for the following sectors

AGRICULTURE	INFRASTRUCTURE	MARINE & MARITIME	RAW MATERIALS	URBAN DEVELOPMENT	WIND ENERGY

• ARMSAT_1 made by Satlantis is the best small satellite for Earth observation
• BlackSky, Planet, Pixxel, and Others Win NRO Hyperspectral Study Contracts 
• Criticism: use of Earth observation data in reporting forest levels for the Global Stocktake process (paper)
• EO company BlackSky has discovered details about China’s secret naval base in Cambodia using data from their satellites

• ESA released this video on the state of the ozone layer, its recovery and the role of satellites in monitoring it, including ESA’s upcoming Altius mission

• ESA - Using a data cube to monitor forest loss in the Amazon

• Generation Space Index 2022: Investing in the Future of Space

• golden age of Earth observation is here

• Hyperspectral imagery (+ more) from the first satellites of Pixxel

• First large-scale Saharan dust transport of 2023 was recorded in mid-February. The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS*) has been monitoring the situation with forecasts predicting an episode of long-range Saharan dust transport across the Iberian Peninsula and France towards northern and central Europe.
• Generation Space Index 2022: Investing in the Future of Space

• One more way AI can help us harness one of the most underutilized datasets in the world

• Participate in the Global Geospatial Industry Outlook Survey and play a critical role in defining the geospatial knowledge economy of tomorrow.
• Small Size, Big Impact: Mapping Small Woody Landscape Features Across Europe

• Swiss Company Processes SAR Data to Develop Innovative EO Solutions

• The International Energy Agency published bad news about the state of methane emissions in 2022 with the Methane Tracker database, which integrates satellite measurements from EO companies, GHGSat and Kayrros

• Time to Put Satellite Imagery at the Fore of the Climate Fight

• Ubotica slashes satellite data overload with on-board AI solution

• water is measured from space (piece)

• Microsoft announces Azure Orbital Space Software Development Kit, software tools to make it easy for developers to create space applications in the cloud and deploy them on spacecraft operated by Azure Orbital partners - Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space and Xplore

• Near Space Labs will provide imagery from their stratospheric balloons to property risk insurtech firm Tensorflight.

• Small satellite integrator, Open Cosmos will be launching a multimodal satellite with IoT-EO sensors later this year for the Andalusian (Spain) state

• Thermal infrared startup, ConstellR signed a multi-launch contract with launch service provider ExoLaunch for launch of their satellites in 2024

• Space-as-a-service company, Sidus Space has partnered with edge computing startup Exo-Space to provide edge AI capabilities into its planned satellite constellation;

• World Meteorological Organization will be running an Uncrewed Aircraft Systems to evaluate the use of drones for filling in atmospheric gaps in weather forecasting and monitoring;

• Airbus Defence and Space won a contract from Angola for their first Earth observation satellite, continuing the trend of sovereign EO globally

• EarthDaily Analytics was awarded a $1M Canadian Space Agency to enable analytics-ready thermal detection calibration and processing;

• Maxar was awarded a contract by the US Army worth ‘tens of millions of dollars’ to provide geospatial data to construct 3D virtual models of Earth

• Satellite IoT company, Astrocast was selected by Swiss Polar Institute to provide connectivity for for remote snow, glacier, and permafrost monitoring stations in Central Asia

• TCarta expands role in Seabed 2030 Ocean Survey Project

• Belgian Earth Observation Day 2023

• Indo-Pacific GeoIntelligence 2023
• online event from Geoawesomeness on EO for deforestation regulation.

• 2nd ISDE International Lectures with the theme of "The Digital Earth(s) of Citizens"

• 13th International Symposia on Digital Earth will be held from 11th to 14th July, 2023 in Athens, Greece (here)

• CASSINI Business Accelerator will be a six month space tech programme offering top-level business & investment coaching, training and seed funding to improve startup and scaleup companies’ ability to achieve sustained commercial growth in upstream and downstream space applications.

• CASSINI is the European Commission's initiative to support entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs in the space industry, including New Space, during 2021-2027.
• Connecting Land and Sea for Global Awareness: The OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2023 Calls For Participation
• COSMOS4HE organised an online Brokerage Event in conjunction with Cluster 4 Info Day to facilitate consortia building for Space calls 2023. Check partner profiles for Space calls here.
• Lump Sum in Horizon Europe on the Funding & Tenders Portal
• That’s how many open procurement opportunities are currently available on the EUSPA website.

List of capdev meetings at CEOS

• course on the applications of SAR data, by a SAR expert
• GW Consulting Knowledge Hub
• ROAD MAP for the sector

• Bayanat and Yahsat develop earth observation capabilities

• EU to inject €3.75B into venture capital funds to help companies scale up

• ESA signs Cooperation Agreement with Mexico

• ESA launched the beta version of the Green Transition Information Factories platform aimed at providing tools for green transition derived from EO data;

• ESA released this video on the state of the ozone layer, its recovery and the role of satellites in monitoring it, including ESA’s upcoming Altius mission;

• GHGSat is collaborating with the International Energy Agency to integrate facility-level emission data into Global Methane Tracker 2023;

• Egypt Launches Earth Observation Satellite, Horus-1

• Sentinel-4, aimed at monitoring global air quality, is set to be integrated to its host, the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder weather satellite.

• Science for a Europe fit for the digital age  

• NATO is launching a new initiative to streamline the process of gathering, disseminating, and distributing satellite data for use by its members;

• The 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15) adopted the long-awaited Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

• UAE's largest satellite company, Yahsat and the country's space research centre, MBRSC, are partnering to build EO solutions for Yahsat’s customers;

• Accelerating Africa's Sustainable Development with Geospatial Intelligence

• AiDash, the EO-based infrastructure monitoring company is launching an energy grid resilience product together with Schneider Electric

• Atlas Space Operations, a ground software as a service company has joined the AWS Solution Provider Program to expand its ground station network
• Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Geospatial Analysis

• Azerbaijan adds mine data to geoinformation digital system

• Boosting market traction for agri-monitoring service - European Space Agency

• Global Top 100 Geospatial Company of 2023  

• case study from ESA showing how the Italian road agency uses EO (specifically SAR from Sentinel-1) to monitor and maintain roads

• Challenges with energy demand and supply

• Defra Earth Observation Centre of Excellence

• EUSI Very High Resolution satellite imagery over several areas in Turkey Link to Image Gallery. Link to imagery gallery

• Enhancing traceability and tracking in aquaculture and fisheries supply chain through

• Esri has launched a new app, Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer, to easily view and analyze global land use changes, particularly aimed at policy makers;

• Esri joining the Overture Maps Project
• Esri collection presenting the use of geospatial for all the UN SDGs;
• How companies are using EU Space to bring new hope to disaster response, recovery and mitigation efforts. 

• How Google uses satellite imagery for real-time wildfire tracking

• How Sylvera measures Forest Biomass;

• how water is measured from space;short piece
  
• interview with an EUMETSAT expert on the significance of satellites for flood and drought monitoring;

• Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space

• Maxar Signs Deal for Dedicated Access to Umbra’s SAR Constellation
• MDA Makes Satellite Contract Breakthrough in Argentina
• Monitoring sewage from space

• Orbital Insight launched the TerraScope geospatial intelligence platform

• OroraTech, the EO startup building wildfire monitoring thermal infrared satellites announced the launch of an on-orbit processing technology that can detect and send fire notification alarms to customers within 3 minutes;

• Planet SkySats capture images of the major earthquake in Turkey

• Satellite in the Wild: How the Smithsonian and Iridium Track Animals from Space

• Sateliot Collaborates with Sentrisense on New Space Technology

• Satellites enable disaster management for unprecedented Australian floods

• Satellite Images Show the Real Picture of Turkey Earthquake

• Space Compass and Skyloom to bring first GEO optical data relay services over Asia to the Earth Observation market

• The International Energy Agency published bad news about the state of methane emissions in 2022 with the Methane Tracker database, which integrates satellite measurements from EO companies, GHGSat and Kayrros;

• This paper showing the limited use of Earth observation data in reporting forest levels for the Global Stocktake process;

• UK Local Authority Projects Use GIS to Modernize Plannings

• UK to Launch New Transport Decarbonisation and Resilience Hub

• Airborne Surveys Launched in Chile to Detect Sources of Methane

• Atlas Space Operations, a ground software as a service company has joined the AWS Solution Provider Program to expand its ground station network

• Axelspace develops a Ka-band radio for EO smallsats

• BlackSky, Inmarsat and Addvalue accelerate Earth Observation (EO) with IDRS™

• Crop Hunting Drones Help Police Bust Illegal Drug Farms
• Drones for Agriculture in India

• German wildfire monitoring startup, Dryad, which raised funding last year for early wildfire detection by monitoring environmental variables using IoT.

• John Deere announcement in January that they were “finalising a satellite partner” in order to build a geospatial map that farmers can use to better track productivity and the performance of crops.

• Location Technologies Transforming Retail and Commerce Industry

• Large number of launches planned

• Maxar launched a high-performance, digital twin SYNTH3D for metaverse, gaming, virtual reality applications. Maxar will also be teaming up with Heavy.ai, Bain, and NVIDIA to provide high-frequency, high-resolution digital twins for communication service providers enabling greater efficiencies in network deployments.
• Number of geostationary satellites hosting an EGNOS payload. 

• Orbital Insight expands global customer base with TerraScope platform rollout

• Small satellite integrator, Open Cosmos will be launching a multimodal satellite with IoT-EO sensors later this year for the Andalusian (Spain) state;

• Synspective, Terra Insight Announce EO Monitoring Solution for Mining Industry

• SpaceQuest Ventures invests in Kreios Space and welcomes them into accelerator program.  Click here

• Space Compass, a Japanese joint venture between NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT, is partnering with Skyloom to provide optical data relay services for EO missions, aiming to reduce the data downlink latency to seconds;

• The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2023

• EarthDaily Analytics was awarded a $1M Canadian Space Agency to enable analytics-ready thermal detection calibration and processing;

• French AI/EO startup Preligens is aiming for success with the US DoD after winning contracts from the French defence ministry (in French);

• Maxar Technologies was awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, worth up to $192 million over five years

• The Guyana Ministry of Natural Resources has signed a three-year contract with Maxar to provide imagery and insights for environmental monitoring;

• Techstars announced their first cohort of startups in Saudi Arabia, which includes several EO startups: Airmo, Kawa Space, SARsatX and SMSNR.

• India’s three major banks ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and HDFC Ltd investing in SatSure;
• Peraton, a US-based defence contractor won a ~$400M contract from NOAA to provide ground services for polar-orbiting JPSS weather satellites;

• Two major energy companies, Williams and ONEOK, investing in Orbital Sidekick;

• EURACTIV Europe's aspirations for its space programme.
• Seraphim Space Report Shows Investors are Shopping for Seed-Level Startups

• Belgian Earth Observation Day 2023

• Copernicus gets sibling— IRIS², the new EU Secure Communication Constellation
• Indo-Pacific GeoIntelligence 2023
• online event from Geoawesomeness on EO for deforestation regulation.

• 2nd ISDE International Lectures with the theme of "The Digital Earth(s) of Citizens"

• 13th International Symposia on Digital Earth will be held from 11th to 14th July, 2023 in Athens, Greece.

• Bringing precise positioning to the mass market with the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS). Join the UNION Technology Workshop & Demonstration to find out how!

• CASSINI Business Accelerator will be a six month space tech programme offering top-level business & investment coaching, training and seed funding to improve startup and scaleup companies’ ability to achieve sustained commercial growth in upstream and downstream space applications.

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• Marking a year of Russia invading Ukraine, the Economist published an interactive piece which uses satellite data to show the impacts of the war.

• List of capdev meetings at CEOS
• Training Data for GIS Applications of Machine Learning
• Want to learn how Copernicus can address the unique needs of anticipatory humanitarian action initiatives? Then be sure to join us on February 15 for a webinar on Copernicus data and services within humanitarian aid applications.
• webinar on Copernicus data and services within humanitarian aid applications.

• What are the Five Free Sources of LiDAR Data?

• What is Digital Elevation Model or DEM?

• AUC Inaugurates the African Space Agency

• Can European Space Agency Replace Russian Technologies?
• Climate Council's Key Takeaways from COP27

• EU and Japan to improve Earth observation data through Copernicus.  The European Commission and Japan Partner for EO Data

• EU – AU cooperation in the climate change and energy space

• EU and the Philippines in 2023

• ESA and the European Commission uniting on Earth observation for the Philippines

• EUSPA Extends Cooperation with CNES for the Galileo SAR Services

• India notified the national geospatial policy 2022. Charting the Trajectory of India’s Promising Geospatial Sector
• Israel Launches Super-Advanced Observation Satellite
• Japan-EU Space Policy Dialogue  
• How Copernicus helps local and regional authorities
• Mexico is asking India for assistance on a remote sensing satellite. 
• New (centralised), data platform for hosting data from the Copernicus programme has been launched.

• NASA Selects Nine Technologies for Commercial Flight Tests

• Poland Orders Two Military Observation Satellites From Airbus
• Remote Sensing for Community Development in Asia and Beyond

• Rwanda and Planet Labs Engage In Discussions Towards the Cross-sectoral Application of Satellite ImagerySpanish Ministry of Defence contracts Indra for Spanish airspace surveillance + control centers

• Africa: COP27's ‘Loss and Damage' Fund for Developing Countries Could Be a Breakthrough – or Another Empty Climate Promise

• Biodiversity and Artificial Intelligence

• EnMAP enters routine operations.Read more...

• Esri and Microsoft collaborate on sustainable agriculture in Africa

• Indigenous territories and protected areas are key to forest conservation

• hyperspectral view from space

• ESA is collaborating with Sinergise to encourage development of EO solutions with a free one-year enterprise-level subscription for Sentinel Hub.

• Future-proofing ice measurements from space

• MyRadar expands wildfire detection with NOAA funding
• New study highlights the need for urgent action to reverse runaway light pollution  

• New UK Satellite To Monitor Oceans Launched Into Space

• New data platform to host Copernicus Earth observation data

• NorthStar raises $47 million CAD Series C round for expected satellite launch in mid-2023

• Planet Labs plans to launch 36 SuperDove smallsats with SpaceX
• Pléiades Neo: The Most Detailed & Accurate Commercial Satellite Imagery.   Airbus Signs Deal to Build 2 EO Satellites for Poland Based on Pléiades Neo
• UQ's Sustainable Minerals Institute to push limits of drone-based hyperspectral imaging tech
• Radar images capture new Antarctic mega-iceberg -

• SAR satellite company Synspective has partnered with Insight Terra, to develop a space enabled monitoring solution for the mining industry.

• Satellite data shows sustained severe drought in Europe

• Satellite constellation to support sustainable agriculture with high-resolution multispectral imagery 

• Satellite Imagery of California's Atmospheric Rivers

• Satellite constellation to support sustainable agriculture with high-resolution multispectral imagery
• Synspective and GCRS partner for satellite-based risk analysis solutions

• Synspective’s SAR and Insight Terra provide space-enabled data and monitoring of mine tailings facilities

• UN Environment Programme – COP27 ends with announcement of historic loss and damage fund
• World's first agri-focused satellite prepares for launch from Cape Canaveral

• What are the Five Types of Geographic Data? - Geospatial World

• 2022 A Year in Review through Satellite Imageries

•  AAC Clyde Space to be part of first European Space Situational Awareness (SSA) GEO satellite

• Artificial intelligence for soil health

• China releases report on remote sensing monitoring for global ecology

• Drones Collect Environmental Data

• EO and Spatial Analytics for Sustainable Agriculture

• Europe seeks greater autonomy in space traffic management

• ESA - Simulator Uses GNSS to Track Railway Positioning
• Geospatial Artha 2022: Indian Geospatial Industry Outlook report.
• Key Drone Trends for 2023
• In-Space Missions to Build Satellite for Asia-Pacific Rideshare Mission

• Satellites to monitor gas pipelines for leaks using hyperspectral imaging

• Satellogic’s Aleph-1 constellation expanded with four smallsat deployments via the Transporter-6 rideshare mission

• Spire Global changes maritime leadership to support growth with two appointments

• Seven nations meet to address space security

• ‘the state of commercial EO’ and ‘weather from space’ along with a few editions of ‘8-Things-EO,’
• Top Launches to Watch in 2023
• UK Space Agency welcome further growth

• Planet, also announced a partnership with NASA Harvest, to develop solutions for food security, based on Planet’s satellite imagery.

• Satellite navigation, contract for Thales

• New EU Actions for European Drone Market

• Northrop Grumman Continues Streak of Space Systems Growth in 2022 

• Satellite-Based Earth Observation Global Market Report 2022:

• Synspective’s 3rd SAR satellite
• Space Economy Report

• Geospatial World Forum 2023
• IGARSS 2023 - Call for Papers. Find more information here. 
• MOOC Weather & Climate Machine Learning course from ECMWF (ongoing)

• Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment (RSCY2023) - CYPRUS - April 3 - 5

• Multiple PhD positions in the WildDrone project in several European countries

• PhD position in Marine Sciences at the University of the Azores, Portugal

• PhD position for Earth Observation-based platform for natural hazards at the University of the Azores, Portugal

• PhD Position for GNSS noise prediction based on deep networks with the supervision of 3D city models at Gustave Eiffel University, France

• PhD Position for impact-based urban flash flood forecasts in France and India at at Gustave Eiffel University, France

• PhD position on climate change impacts on wildfire risk in seasonally dry forests at University of East Anglia, UK

• Postdoc for ALOS-3/4 calibration, validation, and application studies at JAXA, Japan

• PostDoc on resilient ecosystems at Eawag, Switzerland

• Postdoc on short-term wind and solar power forecasting at EPFL, Switzerland

• Post-Doc in coastal D-InSAR at CNRS, France

• Postdoc on atmospheric composition measurements at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, USA

• Scientist for heat danger forecasts at ECMWF, UK or Germany

• Scientist for wildland fire science and applications at JPL, USA

• Data scientist for remote sensing imagery at the Cascade Volcano Observatory, USA

• Photogrammetric imagery scientist at NGA, USA

• Geographer within the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, USA

• University Lecturer in Geoinformatics and Spatial Analysis at University of Helsinki, Finland

• Copernicus Ground Segment manager at ESA, Italy

• Ground Segment Systems Engineering team leader at EUMETSAT, Germany

• Assistant Professor in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing at Masaryk University, Czech Republic

list of capdeve meetings at CEOS

• Brokerage event in Digital thematic areal.
• Brokerage event in Industry thematic area.

• China launches Earth observation satellite.  China sends another Gaofen remote sensing satellite into orbit

• Geocoding of Maps, Land Parcels to be a Game Changer in India
  
• France will sell two imaging satellites to Poland

• Failure of Vega-C rocket launch in French Guiana

• How EU Space helps protect – even restore – Europe’s forests
• NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX for the launch of the Sentinel-6B ocean science satellite. 

• Statement for a Responsible Space Sector. read more >>

• The European Space Agency will hire 200 new employees next year to support new projects. 
• US Congress adds $1.7 billion for U.S. Space Force in 2023 spending bill

• UNOOSA and UK Strengthen Cooperation on Space Sustainability

• A Vega C rocket carrying two imaging satellites failed during a launch
• CASSINI Matchmaking – 2022 was a blast – 2023 open call is open!
• Copernicus for Health – Combating diseases through satellite data
• Data centers move into space to mitigate power consumption and pollution
• December edition of Via Satellite
• Emergency Response System to Ensure Public Safety
• EUSPA many milestones from 2022
• Herring spawns and algal blooms are two yearly events that remind us it’s often the smallest of organisms that can have the largest visual impact from space.
• How Many Satellites are orbiting around Earth in 2022?
• independent commission will investigate Tuesday night's Vega C launch failure. 
• Intermap Announces $1 Million Insurance Subscription

• It was a big year for the space industry. 2023 will be even bigger

• Nomination for EO Excellence Award 2023 Still Open

• OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group
• pack ice is changing
• proliferation of and accessibility to open-source intelligence tools have introduced an entirely new dimension to international conflicts.

• Ready for Internationalisation

• Satnews Publishers Wishes You A Wonderful Holiday

• SpaceX completed the busiest year in its two-decade history early Friday with the launch of an Israeli imaging satellite. 

• Supporting risk assessment in Indonesia. read more >>

• Two European companies are working together to study how to improve satellite optical communications through the atmosphere. 
• 2022: A year of extremes

• 2022 : A Year in Review through Satellite Imageries

• Airbus’ EGNOS European satellite-based navigation augmentation system achieves key milestone

• GEO 2.0: The Future of Geostationary Orbit
• Sizing Up the Satellite-to-Cell Opportunity
• Some forests store more carbon than previously thought
• A startup is working with Thales Alenia Space on a concept for a robotic space factory. 
• The State and Future of LEO Satellite Internet Connectivity in Africa
• UK woodlands could store almost twice as much carbon as previously estimated. UK Space Agency funding in the million£s to support satellite launch sector

• AZO - Winners 2022
• GalaxEye Space raised $3.5 million to develop hybrid satellite sensors.
• SpaceX won a NASA contract worth about $94 million to launch the Sentinel-6B mission to monitor global sea levels.

• Airborne Uav Remote Sensing Market 2022

• InSAR Market Share In 2023

• Geospatial Artha 2022: Indian Geospatial Industry Outlook report. Download the table of content and research methodology of the report
• Planet reported third-quarter revenue of $49.7 million, a 57 percent jump compared with the same period one year ago, and forecasted 2023 annual revenue of $188 million to $192 million
•  Russia invaded Ukraine
• Space Sensors and Actuators Market worth $4.9 Billion by 2027

• 15th Space conference
• GFOI Plenary 2023, 9 to 11 May  - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome and online. here.

• Russia's invasion of Ukraine transformed the space industry in 2022.

• China launches mysterious Earth observation satellites. China launches radar satellite for environmental monitoring

• COP-TRANSFORMERS Vodcast

• COP27: fractured world threatens green transition

• Council and European Parliament agree on boosting secure communications with a new satellite system

• Data Policies in Agriculture. Read more »

• EIC Fund takes 35 investment decisions worth €190M

• EU agrees to increase carbon removals

• EU agree to foot €2.4 billion for satellite internet system

• Europe seeks greater autonomy and independence in space

• European Union members have reached an agreement on their role in a secure connectivity constellation with a new name (IRIS). Welcome to IRIS² - European Commission

• European Parliament adopts position on the EU Secure Connectivity Programme

• European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce (ECSECO) General Meeting. Read more

• European Space Agency is requesting several hundred million euros at its upcoming ministerial council meeting for new satellite navigation technologies from low Earth orbit to the moon.

• ESA finalizes package for ministerial

• GEO flagship on land degradation neutrality.

• GEO Week 2022 Supports Global Action on Data for Local Impact. Read

• Lockheed Martin to Build Digital Twin for NOAA With NVIDI

• Future direction for GEO Post-2025. GEO Week website. GEO-18 Plenary Summary of Outcomes presentation is available on the GEO website here

• Member states to endorse Commission’s innovation agenda

• MEPs call for an increased budget for defence R&D

• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to double spending on monitoring economic activity from space

• NASA has launched a new Earth observation satellite that will monitor weather and climate change

• NOAA weather imaging satellite launches into orbit

• Radiant Earth Releases LandCoverNet, the First Global Multi-Satellite Training Dataset for Land Cover Classification. Read more »

• Russia To Double Its Earth-Observation Constellation

• Slovakia becomes ESA Associate Member state

• Strengthening InCubed's role in commercial Earth observation

• ScaleUp Programme: Invest Element – The ScaleUp Marketplace. Read more

• USAID and NASA Renew Partnership to Address Climate Crisis, Food Security

• UN announces high-tech, satellite-based global methane detection system

• US Releases Nature-Based Solutions Roadmap at COP27 
• The Challenges and Options for Selling Fixed Enterprise Satellite Services in Africa

• Artificial intelligence model helps researchers predict shrinking snow cover

• Azure Orbital Space unveils software tools for space applications

• Collaboration, Data Fusion Key to SAR Commercialization

• Copernicus supports the Finance and Insurance Sectors in Monitoring climate-related risks

• Companies and decision makers agree, Earth Observation is an essential tool in the fight against the biodiversity loss happening in Europe’s coastal regions.

• Collaboration, Data Fusion Key to SAR Commercialization

• Democratizing Open Machine Learning Technologies for Earth Observation. Read more »

• Earth Observation Excellence Award deadline approaching

• ICEYE’s collaboration with New Light Technologies and Bana Solutions provides FEMA insights about flood and recent hurricanes

• ICEYE delivers flood insights from recent hurricanes to FEMA
• Importance of Workflow Integration in Indian Geospatial Industry

• Expanding geospatial ecosystem. Learn more…

• ESA and GAF AG continue offering free-of-charge access to DSMs

• Evidence that fuel regulation reduced air pollution from shipping

• From helping curb CO2 emissions to fighting illegal logging and fishing, forecasting extreme weather events, measuring ocean temperatures and monitoring pollution, the EU Space Programme is a crucial resource in the world’s fight against climate change – which is why it’s on the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference agenda.

• Fit for 55: Deal on carbon sinks goal will increase EU 2030 climate target

• Forensics used to reverse the decline of biodiversity in Europe

• Guidance on integrating Earth observation into climate adaptation

• Group of Earth Observations (GEO) Provides Critical Data for Our Development

• GHGSat Launches Free Service to Contribute to Global Transparency in Methane Emissions

• Global Assessment of Solid Waste Methane Emissions

• Habitat mapping with AI to preserve Europe's natural capital

• How Many Satellites are Orbiting Around Earth in 2022?

• How to Upscale Technology Innovation Across Geospatial Industry

• Land Governance. Learn more....

• Lockheed Martin, NVIDIA to Help US Speed Climate Data to Researchers

• Keeping Watch Over “Super Emitter” Power Plants With Real-Time Space Observations

• Methane ‘Super-Emitters’ mapped by NASA’s new Earth space mission

• Message to attendees of Space 4 Critical Infrastructure

• Microsoft is rolling out software to make it easier to develop space-related applications

• Multilateral Development Banks and Climate Finance: More Words Than Action. Read

• NEREUS  session on Energy and Transport

• OGC Forms Climate Resilience Domain Working Group; Schedules Q&A Session for Climate Resilience Pilot.  OGC sets up climate resilience working group

• Open Maps For Europe wins BeGeo Best Project Award

• Planet Announces Board Expansion with Addition of Kristen Robinson. Planet and Justdiggit Enable Nature-based Solutions 

• Resonate Testing Delivers Training on Testing Processes for Irish Space Companies

• Strengthening InCubed's role in commercial Earth observation

• Satellogic completes investment in Officina Stellare

• Safran acquires Syrlinks

• Seeing African Restoration from Space: Planet and Justdiggit Enable Nature-based

• SES supports EU LEO scheme

• Synthetic remote sensing data with high-accuracy simulation powered by RIT's DIRSIG

• Synspective to Distribute SAR Solutions in North America With Frontier Precision 

• Synspective and GCRS’ partnership for SAR satellite-based risk analysis solutions in South Asia

• Synthetic Remote Sensing Data with High- Accuracy Simulation

• Successful EBNS catalyses the business community ahead of crucial UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15)

• SPECTRA methane map allows you to see methane concentrations in the atmosphere anywhere in the world.Methane Snapshot released for COP27. Data solutions for climate change

• two satellites for the Pléiades Neo high-resolution Earth-imaging constellation, built and operated by Airbus.
• Unprecedented resolution of biodiversity map from Half-Earth

• UNOSAT Receives 2022 Group on Earth Observations Sustainable Development Goal Award

• UN announces satellite-based global methane detection system

• United Nations Office for Project Services 

• WorldCover taking it to the next level

• John Deere Tasks Satellite to Connect New Frontiers in Agriculture

• Israeli + US space agencies work together + welcome partnerships to advance the space tech market

• Safran acquires Syrlinks

• Spanish connectivity startup Sateliot said SpaceX will launch the first operational satellite early next year for its 250-strong constellation, which aims to connect internet of things devices and eventually standard smartphones.

• Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) remains optimistic it will launch its first set of satellites next month.

• UK MoD Officials Discuss Challenges and Priorities to Build a Modern Space Architecture at Global Milsatcom

• US science agency plans new centre for research security

• 3D printing specialist Swissto12 sold its first small satellite to Intelsat for a launch to geostationary orbit in 2025

• GeoOptics Inc. won a NASA contract worth a maximum of $7 million over five years to provide data acquired by the company’s small satellite constellation.

• MyRadar is developing a wildfire detection and mitigation application with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
•  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to double spending on monitoring economic activity from space.NGA will increase the ceiling for its Economic Indicator Monitoring program from $29.9 million to $60 million over five years. The five vendors competing for awards are BAE Systems, Ball Aerospace, BlackSky, Continental Mapping Consultants and Royce Geospatial Consultants
• NASA extends contract with Planet
• NGA Doubles the Value of Economic Monitoring Contract to $30M
• Nvidia and Lockheed Martin won a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract to build a prototype digital twin of Earth. 

• Australia Earth Observation Market Size, Demand

• Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure, GKI Readiness Index, click here to download the report.

• Geospatial Strategy for National Development report.  2021 version of the report

• Geospatial Strategy for National Development from GW's Knowledge Hub

• Global Satellite-Based Earth Observation (EO) Market to Reach $4.2 Billion by 2027

• GKI Readiness Index and it's value proposition, click here to download the report.  

• Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Market Investment Analysis

• Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc, Release Annual Report 2022

• Spectral Imaging Global Market Report 2022

• Copernicus Masters 2022, the Space Awards 2022!

• Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting Workshop (EO4EA 2022)

• European Union and the Indo-Pacific region,EU Global Action on space. The event is scheduled for 1 December from 08:30am to 12:20pm CET.

• EuroGEO Workshop 2022

• European Maritime Day – 24-25 May 2023, Brest (FR)https://maritime-day.ec.europa.eu/index_en  

• Geospatial World Forum – 2-5 May 2023, Rotterdam (NL) https://geospatialworldforum.org/

• GEO Week 2022

• GEOSeries webinar for 2022.

• GEOBIM  2023

• Geovation Hub for  Location Powers, 15-16 November, 2022

• Geospatial World Chamber of Commerce (GWCC), in partnership with Department of Science & Technology, Government of India is organizing the following Summits alongside GeoSmart India 2022

• KCEO Stakeholder Workshop on Biodiversity and Earth Observation

• HEuroGEO Workshop 2022 – 7-9 December 2022, Athens (GR) https://rea.ec.europa.eu/events/eurogeo-workshop-2022-2022-12-07_en

• Locate 23 – 10-12 May 2023, Adelaide (AUS) https://locateconference.com/

• METSTRADE, the world’s largest trade exhibition of marine equipment, materials and systems, is happening 15 – 17 November in Amsterdam

• Oceania Geospatial Symposium 28 November- 4 December 2022, Tahuà, (OC)Homepage - OGS Oceania geospatial symposium (oceania-geospatial.com)

• SATELLITE Conference & Exhibition, 

• Space Tech Expo, 15 – 17 November

• Space2Business, Prague - 28-29 November 2022

• UNFCCC COP-27

• UK Space Design Competition

• The Big 5, Dubai, for a Technology Talk on 5 December 2022

• WorldCereal Final meeting and  Workshop on the 22-23 of November

• 29th Workshop on Space Technology for Socio-Economic Benefits 

• 36th CEOS Plenary

• Australia – Outcomes of the ConnectEO online trade missions

• Chile – Outcomes of the ConnectEO online trade missions

• The launch of the 2nd Horizon Europe call, which looks to support the development of innovative downstream applications that leverage the data and services from the EU Space Programme, made headlines across Europe 

• An estimated 1,300 Starlink terminals in Ukraine went out of service recently because of a lack of funding.

• Kherson and Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine. Link to Imagery

• How Satellite Imagery Magnified Ukraine to the World

• Russia To Double Its Earth-Observation Constellation

• PhD position on investigating geodiversity-biodiversity relationships under climate change at University of Oulu, Finland
• Three PhD positions on radar at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE
• Junior Copernicus Data Services Engineer at EUMETSAT, Germany
• Junior Data Processing Engineer at EUMETSAT, Germany
• Junior Remote Sensing Scientists at EUMETSAT, Germany
• Junior researcher for R&D activities in Earth Sciences at Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
• PostDoc positions for sustainability solutions at University of Southern California, USA
• PostDoc in AI and the use of Earth Observations for Climate at ESA, Italy
• PostDoc on climate data analytics and climate change impacts at George Mason University, USA
• PostDoc on Machine Learning for Earth Observation data at ITT, Italy
• Research associate for applied geoinformatics at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany
• Research Associate for geovisualization at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany
• Remote Sensing Scientist Multi-Mission Cal/Val at EUMETSAT, Germany
• Remote Sensing Scientist Passive Microwave Imaging  at EUMETSAT, Germany
• Geospatial Scientific Software Engineer at Planet, USA
• Researcher for precision farming and artificial intelligence at NIBIO, Norway
• Cartographer at the department of agriculture, USA
• Geospatial Analyst at the European Commission, Italy
• Faculty member to teach Earth Science courses at Miami Dade College, USA
• Scientific officer for climate prediction and projections at ECMWF, UK or Germany
• Assistant professor of coastal marine ecology at College of William & Mary, USA
• Assistant professor of environment & sustainability at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA
• Assistant professor in sustainability of arid lands at University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA
• Assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the State University of New Jersey, USA
• Assistant professor in remote sensing of landscape dynamics at Aarhud University, Denmark
• Assistant professor of Computer Vision at RIT, USA
• Assistant, associate or full professor for coastal processes at the Stony Brook University, USA
• Head of the Research Data Center at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany
• Professor and chair of the department of ocean and Earth sciences at the Old Dominion University, USA
• Director of the division of ecological and Earth sciences at UNESCO, France

• AgriFieldNet Competition Dataset

• Close-up on the further collaborations between the ConnectEO SMEs and in-country actors

• European SMEs participants in internationalisation activities, lessons learnt and challenges

• Perk Group Africa organize training workshops till December 2022. REGISTRATION is open via our online portal HERE.

• SEN12TS: A SAR and Multispectral Dataset for Land Cover Classification
• Ramp baseline model for building footprint segmentation

• Africa's space industry attracting EU and Chinese investors.  Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge for African Innovators.  Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge 2022

• An analysis of Chinese remote sensing satellites

• Azerbaijan opens aerospace monitoring training center
• Canadian government will fund a satellite and instruments for a NASA-led Earth science mission. 

• China launches new remote sensing satellite. China launched a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite   China successfully launches new remote sensing satellite - ZAWYA

• Colombia Bursts onto Space

• Europe’s space industry gathers at ESA Industry Space Days 2022
• EU-funded space R&I and Copernicus: creating game changing applications shaping our world
• EU Space is well-placed to play a pivotal role in supporting the new European Critical Raw Materials Act.
• ESA selects Harmony as tenth Earth Explorer mission

• ESA funds two Irish companies to develop Earth observation products

• European Space Agency to launch Ireland's first satellite early next year

• Indian Minister of Science and Technology Briefs Media About 2nd UNWGIC 2022

• NASA maintains contractual relationship with Astra, presses forward with TROPICS mission
• NASA and USGS to map critical mineral potential in south-west US - Mining Technology
• NASA and Google team up to better track local air pollution
• Slovakia moved a step closer to becoming a full member of the European Space Agency. 

• SIIS Enters Satellite Imagery Partnership with SkyFi

• Swedish Space Corporation to support ESA’s next Earth Explorer mission

• The UK Space Agency has shortlisted groups led by startups Astroscale and ClearSpace for a mission to remove two spacecraft from low Earth orbit in 2026.

• Arctic summer sea ice tied for 10th-lowest.Read more...
• Cleaning up contaminated soil costs Dutch society at least €850 million every year. Curious how satellite imagery & software can be used to identify suspicious soil movement at an early stage?

• CGG Licenses New GeoVerse Carbon Storage Multi-Client Study to TotalEnergies

• Detecting changes in marine ecosystems

• Earth Blox announces no-code SaaS offering for data analysts at Google’s Geo for Good Summit 2022

• Earth Blox gives busy data analysts the tools to build and run satellite image analyses in minutes.
• EU Space Week, the hallmark event for the European space sector, is back and an excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs and innovative space-related businesses to come together.
• EUSPA User Consultation Platform

• Esa announces satellite mission for Earth observation

• EUSPA Space Academy was featured in GeoAwesomeness!

• EuroGeographics selected as friend of the EU Mission Adaptation to Climate Change

• EUMETSAT’s statement highlights four key ways the agency works with global partners to limit climate change and its impacts

• Euro private equity dominates ESG space as alts managers focus on climate - Funds Europe
• e-shape news flash! The September issue of the Newsletter is out! https://e-shape.eu/ and https://helpdesk.e-shape.eu/

• Final batch of Airbus Pléiades satellites arrive in Kourou for launch

• Is your infrastructure climate resilient?

• GENUINE for Precision Agriculture - Copernicus Prize Italy 2021 Winner

• Geospatial World Awards

• GeoCue Makes European Debut of Point Cloud Software and 3D Imaging Sensor at Intergeo

• Global environmental developments in September 2022

• GWF 2023 
• HAS implementation in agriculture and geomatics applications 
• Hurricane Ian reaches Florida. Read more...

• Long-serving European weather satellite safely moved to the “graveyard orbit”

• Mediterranean Sea hit by marine heatwave. Read more...

• NASA, USGS Map Minerals to Understand Earth Makeup, Climate Chang

• New EU Project To Offer Forest-Based Policy Pathways For A Climate-Neutral Society

• New technologies for remote biodiversity monitoring

• New EU project will offer forest-based policy pathways for a climate-neutral society

• myEUspace competition
• The NRO followed a similar strategy for acquiring synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and data. the NRO awarded contracts in January to Airbus U.S., Capella, Iceye U.S., PredaSAR and Umbra. 
  
• NRO Announces Commercial RF Study Contract Awards
• OGC Calls for Participation in Climate Resilience Pilot
• Over 40% Methane Emissions in US Comes from Super Emitters
• Perspectives on Ground Segment Digitalization

• Pléiades Neo: The Most Detailed and Accurate Commercial Satellite Imagery

• Pléiades Neo 30cm imagery is now available in the Living Library! Living Library here

• Powerful and Multilateral UN-GGIM is Rescuing the SDGs

• Satellogic announces new leadership appointments

• Satellites for the Dataverse and the Metaverse

• Satellites for missions far from earth

• Satellites to map ocean clouds that keep Earth cool

• Satellites Scrutinizing the Earth: Their Types and Possibilities

• Towards a European Copernicus Coastal Flood Awareness System: the ECFAS project

• UN Mission assures disaster managers of access to data

• Waterjade - COM "EU Space Data for Blue Economy” Challenge 2020 Winner

• Weather sensors capture vital data on hurricane Ian

• What Climate Scientists Want from Satellite Data Providers

• 2021 Space Capital report
• 10 highlights from four days of EUSW22.

• Astroscale opened a facility in the United Kingdom to build commercial space debris removal spacecraft.

• American space company Redwire buys Belgian QinetiQ Space for €32 million

• Beyond Gravity Wins New Loft Orbital Deal
• Call for improved synergies in EU research and innovation funding

• Constellations of Small Satellites In Low Earth Orbit Are the Future of the Global Space Sector

• Exobotics Teams Up With Simera Sense on Hyperspectral Imager
• John Deere Execs Outline Market Opportunity for Agricultural Satcom 
• It remains difficult to combine data from different Earth observation systems.
• HAS implementation in agriculture and geomatics applications  

• How Well Is the EU Regulating the Digital Space?

• Hyperspectral imaging for smallsats is the goal of Exobotics + Simera Sense collaboration

• Non-Imagery EO Data: Golden Ticket or Pipe Dream?

• NRO awards Kleos Space a commercial RF capabilities contract

• OGC Calls for Participation in Climate Resilience Pilot
• Open Cosmos unveils a shared space infrastructure

• Phase One Announces Successful Operation of 150MP Camera on Smallsat Earth

• QinetiQ sells small satellites specialist Space NV to Redwire

• Redwire said it is spending around $31 million to buy QinetiQ Space, a Belgium-based designer and integrator of critical space infrastructure and other instruments for end-to-end space missions.

• Satellite Vu partners with Viasat

• ScaleUp programme : Accelerating Space Commercialisation
• Satellite Vu Strikes Deal to Use Viasat's Ground Network Service.
• Satellite Vu partnering with Viasat

• Satellite Earth Observation Market 2022 Report

• Spire Global Awarded $4 Million NOAA Contract to Deliver Hyperspectral

• Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines
• Space Foundation 2022 report
• The benefits of the EU Space Programme and 3SOS 
• The Federal Communications Commission adopted a new rule that will shorten the time for satellite operators to deorbit low Earth orbit satellites from 25 to five years.
• The National Space Council plans to hold “learning sessions” with industry in coming weeks on how to develop a new regulatory framework for novel commercial space activities.
• U.S. agricultural farming giant Deere & Company issued a satellite communications-focused request for proposals for solutions to further connect its fleet of intelligent machines

• UK’s first orbital satellite launch includes intelligent hyperspectral imager HyperScout®

• UK Government Opens Competition for Satellite Communications Business Funding
• With space essential to military operations, better understanding of what objects are in orbit and the threats they may pose is “foundational” for space security, a Space Force general said.

• With sat constellations in mind, Neuraspace raises millions of euros in financing

• Celestia UK wins ESA navigation contract

• Davra, Treemetrics secure co-funding of €3m under Earth Observation programme

• NASA science satellite contract won by GHGSat

• Satellogic to Monitor Protected Forests in Climate Change Contract . Satellogic won a contract to collect high-resolution satellite imagery over Earth’s forests until 2025. 
• Spire Global Awarded USD 9.9 Million NOAA Contract 

• Sidus Space signs satellite deployment contract with Exo-Space

• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Satellite and Information Service awarded nine contracts worth a combined $13.8 million for instrument technologies, ground systems and related mission support.

• Europe Geological Remote Sensing Consultancy Market 2022 Key market Expansion
• Geospatial Artha Report 2021 and Geospatial Artha Summit 2022!
  

• Access Space Alliance (ASA) conference is taking place on 6-7 September 2022 as a hybrid event: see link.
• Advancing Earth Observation Forum 2022 (AEO22)
• Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Extreme Events with Earth Blox.Register Now >
• Copernicus Masters 2022: All Partner Evaluation Meetings, 18 July - 16 September 2022

• Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting Workshop (EO4EA 2022)

• ESA’s Industry Space Days 2022. Read more
• Euroconsult's WSBW 2022. The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• EU Space Week is set to happen 3 – 6 October in Prague. More information and registration will be coming soon!. EU Space Week 2022, the go-to event for Europe’s space community, is happening 3 – 6 October in Prague, Czech Republic. EU Space Week – Europe’s premiere space event – is back. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from leading EU Space voices and connect with colleagues from across the industry! The full agenda will be available soon. In the meantime, you can already register for the 3 – 6 October
• Eurisy events page
• EUSPA Space Academy
• European Space Policy Institute’s (ESPI) Autumn Conference.
• EU Space Week 2022 
• HAS implementation in agriculture and geomatics applications call for proposals by 21 October.
• Industry Space Days  →
  
•  International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022. 18-22 September →
  
• INTERGEO 2022, 18 – 22 October 2022. INTERGEO 2022,
  

• ICPAC and RCMRD Held First GMES & Africa Phase 2 Regional Workshop for East Africa

• Industry Space Days 2022.

• GEO Week 2022

• GEOBIM  2023
• Geospatial World Forum
• GeoBuiz Europe Summit: Geospatial World Forum 2022. Happening 10 – 12 May in Amsterdam
• GEOINT 2022, Descartes Labs Government Will Present Tradecraft Competition + Two Workshops
• The Netherlands Space Office, together with dotSPACE are organising information and network sessions about European funding calls in a series of webinars.
• online Copernicus Biodiversity in Coastal Ecosystems Workshop on 11 - 12 October.

• Oceania Geospatial Symposium

• OGC: Registration is open for the OGC Member Meeting
• Open knowledge: new resources and learning opportunities
• Paris Space Week 2022 →
• Pléiades Neo provides users with 30cm native resolution satellite imagery with reactive tasking capabilities and intraday revisit over any point on Earth. 

• RAMSAR CONVENTION COP14

• SME4SPACE Anniversary networking event - 27/09/2022
• Silicon Valley Space Week (SVSW) Satellite Innovation (Oct. 11-12)focuses on analyzing next-generation satellite technology and the current business environment. MilSat Symposium (Oct. 13-14) explores the most effective and rapid solutions in development for defending and expanding critical space assets.
• Small Satellites & Space Sustainability: Why You Should Care at SmallSat Conference. click here for more information.
• SAR Analytics Symposium
• Space Tech Expo Europe 2022 Conferences 
• Space Tech Expo Europe 
• Sustainable Ocean Summit
• Webinar on partnerships for Earth Observation
• The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• TechNet Europe 2022

• UNFCCC COP-27

• UNOOSA Additional information about the webinar series
• 6th AfriGEO Symposium shall be taking place as side events of the 18th GEO Week. Please register for the event using this link,
• 5th New Space Atlantic Summit
• 29th Workshop on Space Technology for Socio-Economic Benefits 

• 36th CEOS Plenary

• 2nd European Defence and Security Conference- 11 October 2022
• 2nd Climate Observation Conference

• War in Ukraine shifts priorities among European government agencies

• EUSPA is hiring! Current vacancies include Ground System Service Provision Engineer, Galileo System Evolution Manager, Operator at the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre (GSMC) and Secured Communications Engineer.  Checked out EUSPA’s latest job vacancies and procurement opportunities?
• Interested in a traineeship? Watch our short video on the EUSPA traineeship experience and learn more about the current openings.
• Internships at Planet
• Come work at DEA: EO Opportunities abound
• PhD position on risk assessment of mosquito-borne diseases at The Royal Danish Academy, Denmark
• PhD position in remote sensing for the monitoring of forest resources at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• PostDoc in explainable artificial intelligence for unmanned aerial vehicles at the University of Twente, Netherlands
• PostDoc on heat risk at the University of Twente, Netherlands
• PostDoc in Climate Change and Natural Hazards at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• PostDoc on Machine Learning for Earth Observation data at IIT, Italy
• PostDoc for climate modelling at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
• PostDoc on  Sustainability Solutions at University of Southern California, USA
• Geospatial software engineer (hyperspectral pipeline) at Planet, Canada
• Software engineer for biomass at Planet, Netherlands
• Scientist for Earth Sciences and Remote Sensing at NASA, USA
• Senior Scientist for Space Weather at NOAA, USA
• Senior Advisor for Geodesy at NOAA, USA
• Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Crop Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Assistant Professor for geodata integration, interoperability and distributed analysis  at the University of Twente, Netherlands

• SAR satellites for Agriculture
• Space and Defence: Protecting Europe and Strengthening our Capacity to Act A History of Copernicus
• A History of Copernicus 
• Old but gold – Use of historic Copernicus EO data
• EO-Lab is Launched – New Access to Earth Observation Data
• LDE NL Space Campus Summer School – Day 6
• EDA Defence Innovation Prize 2022 Open for Submissions
• IMPRS/SKIES workshop on Entrepreneurship
• Opportunities in Space with Satuccino
• The EUSPA Space Academy – Free Online Training for Space Entrepreneurs

• African Space and Satellite Industry Now Valued at USD 19.49 Billion
• China launches Beijing-3B Earth observation satellite into orbit

• Commission starts drafting strategic plan that will guide the second half of Horizon Europe

• CODES: The Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) is a global platform that advances action by governments, companies, and civil society as part of the implementation process for the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. It brings together a multi-stakeholder community to co-design and deliver collaborative action towards achieving a digital planet for global sustainability. Join here. 
• Copernicus as a tool to empower and promote inclusivity: Women in GMES & Africa
• Digital Earth Australia and the Finance and Insurance Industries: Investing in the benefits of Earth Observation. Geoscience Australia and Digital Earth Australia are proud leaders and members of Australia’s Earth observation community, which continues to grow as more EO data becomes freely available and easier to access. 
• New Zealand is promising more funding for its space industry as part of a policy update. 
• Policy Development Tracker 
• Singapore's Journey towards a Nationwide Digital Twin
• U.S. government should develop a "national strategy for space" that makes greater use of commercial capabilities, according to a new report. 

• Acoustic soundscapes and satellite data to assess rainforest health
• Copernicus in Social Media
• Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) Risk and Recovery Mapping component celebrates its 10th anniversary
• Copernicus Ocean State Report and Summary
• Current and future opportunities for EU-Africa cooperation in the space domain 
• Danish project BIFROST
• Europe faces devastating drought that may be worst in 500 years, reveals satellite imagery
• Earth Observation Market Sees Growth in 3D Mapping and Multi-Sensor Solutions
• Earth Observant Inc. (EOI Space) Inks Deal with SpaceX
• Earth Observation User Case: Speaking a New Language of Landsat
• Earth Observation Market Sees Growth in 3D Mapping and Multi-Sensor Solutions
• EarthDaily constellation built for change-detection analysis
• GEO Week 2022 
• Google Cloud inks cooperation deal for Saudi Earth observation climate action programme
•  How Geospatial Helps in Monitoring and Eradicating Plastic Waste?
• How Earth Observation Can Mitigate Global Agro Crisis?
• How do satellites monitor the ozone layer?
• NASA transfers Landsat 9 satellite to USGS to monitor Earth’s changes
• New Synergies to Strengthen European Space
• Machine learning for earth observation from drones and satellites
• Meteorologists in Africa prepare now for deployment of the Meteosat Third Generation system
• MDA to build Ka-band steerable antennas for Airbus OneWeb Satellites

• Mission ends for Copernicus Sentinel-1B. Read more...

• Monitoring the Health of Our Planet using Earth Observations
•  NorthStar and Telespazio Partner on Space Domain Awareness
• Oder River disaster reveals other problems in satellite data
• Orbital Insight and Asterra join forces to monitor infrastructure
•  Planet’s Hyperspectral Satellites will be Called Tanager
• Researchers use AI to define priority areas for action to combat deforestation in the Amazon

• Satel­lites keep an eye on burnt ar­eas. Read more...

• Satellite Remote Sensing Image market share from APAC
• Smart City Planning For Resilience: Earth Observation Data And Critical Infrastructure
• Tracking marine plastic drift from space
• “The Eye in the Space”: ICEYE's SAR Satellites and the Law of War
• Telespazio has signed a deal to distribute Canadian startup NorthStar Earth & Space's planned space domain awareness services. 
• The Pentagon's Space Development Agency (SDA) will miss its goal of launching its first satellites this month.
• World Satellite Business Week Wrap-Up
• With the EO4NT grant initiative there are opportunities to address new challenges in the Territory using EO data – and you could share in $200,000.  Find out more here.

• BAE Systems Announces Multi-Sensor Azalea Satellite Cluster
• BlackSky awarded $1.7m NASA contract to advance earth science

• Exotrail + Airbus partner together on the implementation of propulsion for EO smallsats

• Inovor Technologies and partners to deliver 10-year, multi-satellite mission for Australian Defence Force
• Earth Observation Market Sees Growth in 3D Mapping and Multi-Sensor Solutions
• Major satellite operators are bracing for disruption as consolidation and new entrants shake up the industry. 

• National Reconnaissance Office issues six study contracts for commercial RF remote sensing

• NGA Renews Maxar’s G-EGD Imagery Contract for Third Option Year
• Microsoft Azure Exec Confirms Slew of New Partnerships with SES, SpaceX, and Others
• Microsoft is expanding its Azure Space cloud services. 
• Open Cosmos announces a shared satellite infrastructure — OpenConstellation
• Regional satellite operators are searching for faster ways to add more capacity to their networks to meet the soaring demand for broadband. 

• Satellite Vu partnering with Viasat

• Satellite startup Exobotics expands as revenues reach £4m
• Space firms have stepped up competition

• SSC signs 10-year partnership agreement with CNES – continues as prime provider of polar ground support

• UK’s first orbital satellite launch includes intelligent hyperspectral imager HyperScout® M

• A Blue Ocean Market for Commercial Space Data Relay Services
• Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information

• Commercial smallsat data acquisition contract assigned by NASA to GHGSat

• ICEYE signs contract to provide the Government of Ukraine with access to its SAR satellite constellation
• GeoBuiz 22: Global Geospatial Industry Outlook report. GeoBuiz Report: 22 - Global Geospatial Industry Outlook Report
• Spire’s contract extension with NASA for Earth Observation data 

• EO and Data Cooperation: The EU-Pacific Partnership
• Earth Observation Big Data Service Market Research Report
• Earth Observation Market Forecast 2022 - 2029
• The Space Report 2022 released by The Space Foundation.
• Top Five Trends in Earth Observation

• Access Space Alliance (ASA) conference is taking place on 6-7 September 2022 as a hybrid event: see link.
• Advancing Earth Observation Forum 2022 (AEO22)
• Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Extreme Events with Earth Blox.Register Now >
• Copernicus Masters 2022: All Partner Evaluation Meetings, 18 July - 16 September 2022
• ESA’s Industry Space Days 2022. Read more
• Euroconsult's WSBW 2022. The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• EU Space Week is set to happen 3 – 6 October in Prague. More information and registration will be coming soon!. EU Space Week 2022, the go-to event for Europe’s space community, is happening 3 – 6 October in Prague, Czech Republic. EU Space Week – Europe’s premiere space event – is back. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from leading EU Space voices and connect with colleagues from across the industry! The full agenda will be available soon. In the meantime, you can already register for the 3 – 6 October
• Eurisy events page
• EUSPA Space Academy
• EU Space Week 2022 
• Industry Space Days  →
  
•  International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022. 18-22 September →
  
• INTERGEO 2022, 18 – 22 October 2022
• Industry Space Days 2022
• GEOBIM  2023
• Geospatial World Forum
• GeoBuiz Europe Summit: Geospatial World Forum 2022. Happening 10 – 12 May in Amsterdam
• GEOINT 2022, Descartes Labs Government Will Present Tradecraft Competition + Two Workshops
• The Netherlands Space Office, together with dotSPACE are organising information and network sessions about European funding calls in a series of webinars.
• OGC: Registration is open for the OGC Member Meeting
• Open knowledge: new resources and learning opportunities
• Paris Space Week 2022 →
• Pléiades Neo provides users with 30cm native resolution satellite imagery with reactive tasking capabilities and intraday revisit over any point on Earth. 
• SME4SPACE Anniversary networking event - 27/09/2022
• Silicon Valley Space Week (SVSW) Satellite Innovation (Oct. 11-12)focuses on analyzing next-generation satellite technology and the current business environment. MilSat Symposium (Oct. 13-14) explores the most effective and rapid solutions in development for defending and expanding critical space assets.
• Small Satellites & Space Sustainability: Why You Should Care at SmallSat Conference. click here for more information.
• SAR Analytics Symposium
• Space Tech Expo Europe 2022 Conferences 
• Space Tech Expo Europe 
• Webinar on partnerships for Earth Observation
• The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• TechNet Europe 2022,
• World Satellite Business Week 
• 6th AfriGEO Symposium shall be taking place as side events of the 18th GEO Week. Please register for the event using this link,
• 5th New Space Atlantic Summit
• 29th Workshop on Space Technology for Socio-Economic Benefits 
• 2nd European Defence and Security Conference- 11 October 2022

• Global Earth Observation Satellite Market Insight | Explained Pre & Post COVID-19 Impact

• European Space Imaging, in partnership with Maxar Technologies, collected imagery over the weekend. Link to Imagery
• ICEYE to Provide Access of its SAR Constellation to Ukraine. 
• Ukraine gains enhanced access to Iceye imagery and data

• EUSPA is hiring! Current vacancies include Ground System Service Provision Engineer, Galileo System Evolution Manager, Operator at the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre (GSMC) and Secured Communications Engineer.  Checked out EUSPA’s latest job vacancies and procurement opportunities?
• Interested in a traineeship? Watch our short video on the EUSPA traineeship experience and learn more about the current openings.
• Internships at Planet
• Come work at DEA: EO Opportunities abound
• PhD position for interpretable Deep Learning for image-based species identification at INRIA, France
• PhD and Postdoc positions for AI for Complex Systems at Universitat de València, Spain
• PhD or Postdoc position for causal inference to understand food security at Universitat de València, Spain
• Early Career Fellow on use of altimeters in a coupled data assimilation system at ECMWF, Germany
• Early Career Fellow on meteorological effects of atmospheric composition at ECMWF, Germany
• Early Career Fellow on water cycle in km-scale simulations at ECMWF, Germany
• Early Career Fellow on visualisation scalability of high resolution, high volume meteorological data at ECMWF, Germany
• Postdoc for interpretable Deep Learning for image-based species identification at INRIA, France
• Postdoc for detection of burned areas and active fires at the University of Idaho, USA
• Research Scientist at RIKEN, Japan
• Senior Scientist for Space Weather at NOAA, USA
• Senior Advisor for Geodesy at NOAA, USA
• Meteorologist at NOAA, USA
• Scientist position on informing decisions on agriculture and human health via remote sensing at NASA, USA
• Climate Product Expert at EUMETSAT, Germany
• Project Controller at ESA, Netherlands
• Earth Observation Services Coordinator at ESA, Italy
• Sentinel-1 Mission Manager at ESA, Italy
• FLEX Mission verification and Operations Engineer at ESA, Netherlands
• EU Programme Coordinator at ESA, Belgium

• SAR satellites for Agriculture
• Space and Defence: Protecting Europe and Strengthening our Capacity to Act A History of Copernicus
• A History of Copernicus 
• Old but gold – Use of historic Copernicus EO data
• EO-Lab is Launched – New Access to Earth Observation Data
• LDE NL Space Campus Summer School – Day 6
• EDA Defence Innovation Prize 2022 Open for Submissions
• IMPRS/SKIES workshop on Entrepreneurship
• Opportunities in Space with Satuccino
• The EUSPA Space Academy – Free Online Training for Space Entrepreneurs

• African space + satellite industry is now valued @ Billion$$

• African Space and Satellite Industry Now Valued at USD 19.49 Billion

• China launches carbon and ecosystem monitoring satellite
• Copernicus-powered polar monitoring helps deliver on the EU’s Arctic Agenda

• Earth Observation & Data Cooperation: The EU-Pacific Partnership - Geospatial World

• ESA has given up on efforts to restore the Sentinel-1B radar imaging satellite. ESA Confirms Loss of Sentinel-1B, Will Now Fast-Track Sentinel-1C Launch
• ESA provides free and accessible ground motion data
• European Commission Unveils Action Areas for Twinning Green and Digital Transitions
• European Innovation Council Board joins call on the Commission to resolve EU start-up fund delaysE
• Geospatial data and API delivery - European Data Portal
• Geoscience Australia launches new Space Division. State of the Environment 2021 report.
• Geospatial World and ISRS Sign MoU for Conference in Nov
• ITU Datahub: The World’s Richest Source of ICT Statistics and Regulatory Information

• Indian state is overhauling its agriculture strategy

• New 2022 Strategic Foresight Report by the European Commission
• New ESA archive collections open for PlanetScope and SkySat
• New European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce (ECSECO) Established

• New Synergies to Strengthen European Space

• Russia will launch an Iranian imaging satellite next week. 
• UK boosts space tech funding to cut carbon emissions
• US-European satellite will make world’s first global freshwater survey
• UAE announces plans for radar satellite constellation and space fund

• According to the European wine market report by Statista, the European wine market is currently valued at around EUR 160 billion and it is expected to increase by 35% within the next five years. Read more.
• AerialSphere Offers 360-Degree Aerial Panoramic Imagery at Higher Elevation
• ANAS-Italian government-owned company to monitor the stability of Italian roads
• AI, Digital Twin for Water Recycling,Circular Economy Transition
• After 50 years pioneering satellite imagery, NASA's Landsat is ready for 50 more  
• Bring your climate analysis capabilities in-house with Earth Blox. Register Now >
• Building cloud-native geospatial standards. Learn more....
• Blue Canyon Technologies won its largest constellation order to date, a contract with weather technology company Tomorrow.io. 
• Capella Space intends to offer improved image resolution and quality . Capella Space announced Wednesday a new generation of radar imaging satellites with improved image resolution and quality.
• @CERTO_project (Copernicus Evolaiution - Research for harmonized and transitional water Observation)
• Copernicus supports the art of making fine wine
• Copernicus reports record summer wildfire activity in southwestern Europe amid heatwaves
• Chinese company ventures into autonomous drone system inspection
• CGG Licenses Geothermal Multi-Client Studies Supporting Energy Transition to US Energy Company
• Data Privacy Under Spotlight Again in US and Europe
• Detecting plastic marine litter from space
• DEA Mangrove Canopy Cover (Landsat) product
• Earth Blox you get access to Google Earth Engine’s entire catalogue of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets, and you don’t need to be an expert in Python or JavaScript to use it.
• Earth Observation in Re/Insurance Business

• Earth Observation & Data Cooperation

• EarthCube Affiliate Project Creates Geographical Mapping Software. Read more about GMTSAR here.
• Free Online Course on Earth Observation
• ForestRe gains competitive advantage with satellite data
• GeoBuiz 22: Global Geospatial Industry Outlook Report
• GEO Week 2022 
• GEE commercial access
• GW Knowledge Hub and access these reports and discover the benefits of using geospatial and BIM solutions in sustainable AEC industry practices by GW Consulting
• GMES & Africa: Unlocking the power of EO data in Africa with Copernicus
• Green Building Mandates and the Case for Geospatial Technologies
• Google Under Lens Over Promise to Protect User Location Data
• Hydrosat has secured a commercial remote sensing license for its upcoming thermal imaging system. 
• How Copernicus Helps Monitor the Health of Europe’s Coastal Waters
•  How is Military Metaverse Different from Commercial Metaverse
• Landsat program turns 50. Read more...
• LandCoverNet, the First Global Multi-Satellite Training Dataset for Land Cover Classification. Read more »
• Lockheed Martin and Maxar to Develop Concepts for NOAA GeoXO Satellites 
•  Mapping Heat Islands to Boost Climate Resilience
• Maximising land use and minimising its impact. Learn more....
• Maxar’s high-resolution vivid basemaps enhances Esri ArcGIS Living Atlas of the world

• Methane satellites will be watching California’s dairies. Methane satellites will be watching California’s dairies…but mostly its oil fields and landfills

• Migration and the 2030 Agenda
• Monitoring Marine Environment for the ESA Global Development Programme
• Monitoring and protecting posidonia oceanica
• New AI model detects and categorises marine plastic
• NVIDIA Unveils Powerful AI, Simulation for Virtual Worlds
• PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring
•   Planet Certifies Three Key Partners in New Planet Orbit Certification Program  
• Proactive maintenance of bridges and viaducts
• Producing Global Training Dataset Labels. Read more »
• Pléiades Neo: Delivering 30cm Imagery for A New Era of Geospatial Applications

• Radiant Earth Foundation names Jed Sundwall as the new Executive Director

•  Radar Sensing for Mobility, Wellness, and Holistic Smart City
• Risk assessment analysis of the sewage network in Chile
• Satellites are Tracking Rivers of Garbage Flowing Across the Oceans
• Satellite Market Trends, Business Strategies and Opportunities With Key Players Analysis 2029
• Sentinel 1-B update
• Space technology enables trust in carbon credit markets. Learn more....
• Supporting carbon-neutral plans in Ireland. Learn more…  Supporting Europe on path to climate neutrality
• Synspective releases first image from its small SAR satellite “StriX-β”
• Strata: UNEP’s Earth Stress Monitor

• The impact of the Sentinel-1B failure and looking forward to Sentinel-1C

• Terran Orbital said it is prioritizing work for the SDA over its own radar constellation. 
• The CSU Synthetic Attribution Benchmark Dataset can be used by users that are interested in benchmarking methods of explainable artificial intelligence for geoscientific applications.
• Telespazio unveils product line for NewSpace market
• UK Space Startups Say Government Support and Investment is Critical to Sector’s Success 
• Urban-rural land linkages and territorial justice as states of mind. Learn more....
• GeoXperience Magazine
• 10 Smallsat Startups to Watch
• ii2030 Challenge: AI for Earth Observation. Read more »
• 9 applications to improve business and everyday life with Copernicus
• UP42 Teams Up with Trimble for Faster Information Extraction from Geospatial Data

• What extra questions to ask when choosing a SAR imagery provider? here.

•  AI-based Map for Sustainable Urban Planning in Zambia
• Is the Eutelsat-OneWeb Merger the “Right” Move?
• Rent This Space: The Business Model of Space as a Service
• Sidus Space Selects Amazon Web Services for LizzieSat Constellation Cloud Storage
• Space technology enables trust in carbon credit markets
• SES completed its $450 million acquisition of DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, which doubles its U.S. government business. 
• Stay up to date with machine learning on Earth observation news. Explore the latest methodologies, applications, data, and other resources in April, May & June 2022.
• Strengthening Digital Infrastructure of UAS
• Space Norway to Build Radar Satellite for Maritime Surveillance
• USA: A bill to boost domestic production of semiconductors could alleviate supply chain issues for the space industry over time. 
• Xona Space Systems Announces Funding Round- Raising $25M to date. Funds will be used to accelerate the development of the first independent precision navigation service from low Earth orbit.
• Viasat has been selected to study multi-orbit satellite networks for the European Space Agency.

• BlackSky Awarded USD 1.7m NASA Contract
• ICEYE signs contract to provide Government of Ukraine with access to its SAR satellite constellation
• Lockheed Martin and Maxar win weather satellite contracts
• GeoOptics, PlanetIQ and Spire to supply NOAA with space weather data
•  MariaDB acquires Canadian Geospatial Company CubeWerx
•  Planet to Provide Real-Time Data for NASA’s CSP
• Telit and Thales announce the creation of the leading western IoT solutions provider

• Active Sensor Market Expected to Reach $50.7 Billion By 2031: Allied Market Research
• Commercialization of Space Driving nearly 570 Exabytes of Information
• Earth Observation Satellite Market Recent Developments & Emerging Trends To 2028
• EUSPA’s Earth Observation and GNSS Market Report.  download your free copy today.
• ESPI report
•  GeoBuiz-22: Global Geospatial Industry Outlook Report

• Ground segment cumulated market value to reach $78bn by 2031:

• Why the Space Industry Should Be Your Next Investment
• 10 Smallsat Startups to Watch
• New Trends in Value-Added Resellers (VARs) software Professional Market Size 2022
• Space Traffic Study, 2^nd Edition 
• Q2 satellite emissions report from GHGSat. 

• Access Space Alliance (ASA) conference is taking place on 6-7 September 2022 as a hybrid event: see link.
• Advancing Earth Observation Forum 2022 (AEO22)
• Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Extreme Events with Earth Blox.Register Now >
• Agri-TechE REAP Start-Up Showcase
• Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information
• Capella Space Announces Higher-Performance Next-Gen Satellites With Optical Links 
• Copernicus Masters
• Copernicus Frontier Tech Challenge for Europe’s Digital Future
• Copernicus Masters 2022: All Partner Evaluation Meetings, 18 July - 16 September 2022
• Computing Conference 2023 to be held from 22-23 June 2023 in London, UK. 
• Discover how EU Space Programme technologies benefit the shipping industry at the 1st Pytheas Maritime Space Forum. Happening 15 July, this event is jointly organised by isalos.net and EUSPA. Registration is now open.
• National Conference on "Development of Space Start-ups Ecosystem in India" (DeSSEI)
• Digital Twins, Climate, and Smart Cities are Converging at the OGC Member Meeting. Register for the OGC Member Meeting and learn more.
• Discover the impact of EU Space Programme technologies on the shipping industry at the 1^st Pytheas Maritime Space Forum happening 15 July, organised by isalos.net and EUSPA. Registration is now open.
• Earth Observation for Climate Smart Innovation in South East Asia initiative,
• ESA’s Industry Space Days 2022. Read more
• ESA not to restore operations of the Sentinel-1B
• Euroconsult's WSBW 2022. The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• EU Space Week is set to happen 3 – 6 October in Prague. More information and registration will be coming soon!. EU Space Week 2022, the go-to event for Europe’s space community, is happening 3 – 6 October in Prague, Czech Republic. EU Space Week – Europe’s premiere space event – is back. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from leading EU Space voices and connect with colleagues from across the industry! The full agenda will be available soon. In the meantime, you can already register for the 3 – 6 October
• Eurisy events page
• European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Check out the interview here. 
• Future of Artificial Intelligence in the context of Industrial Ecology
• Get Support for Your EO Solution in the ESA SpaceLeap Challenge!
• Get Local Support and Double Your Chances of Winning Copernicus Masters 2022!
• Geospatial Caravan: Embracing One & All, GWF 2023 
• How can clusters better build international missions for SMEs?
• how to access Pléiades Neo data in the Living Library
• Industry Space Days  →
  
•  International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022. 18-22 September →
  
• INTERGEO 2022, 18 – 22 October 2022
• INNOspace Masters Conference and Awards Ceremony on 5 July 2022.
• Introduction to Geospatial Technologies for Achieving SDGs 2022 – Food Security
• Introduction to the Trimble Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration Data Collection Solution
• Industry Space Days 2022
• Geospatial World Forum
• GeoBuiz Europe Summit: Geospatial World Forum 2022. Happening 10 – 12 May in Amsterdam
• GEOINT 2022, Descartes Labs Government Will Present Tradecraft Competition + Two Workshops
• GIS4Schools E-Learning Platform webinar. Register here: https://bit.ly/3RA23dg
• The Netherlands Space Office, together with dotSPACE are organising information and network sessions about European funding calls in a series of webinars.
• NASA ARSET Advanced Training to be held in August 2022 (Satellite Remote Sensing for Measuring Urban Heat Islands and Constructing Heat Vulnerability Indices), as a follow up from the NASA ARSET Introductory Training held in November 2020 (Satellite Remote Sensing for Urban Heat Islands)! 
• Near-real-time MODIS-derived vegetation index data products and online services
• OGC for a Special Session at the Member Meeting: The Metaverse is Geospatial
• Optimise Transport and Mobility Systems with Copernicus Data
• Paris Space Week 2022 →
• Silicon Valley Space Week (SVSW) Satellite Innovation (Oct. 11-12)focuses on analyzing next-generation satellite technology and the current business environment. MilSat Symposium (Oct. 13-14) explores the most effective and rapid solutions in development for defending and expanding critical space assets.
• Small Satellites & Space Sustainability: Why You Should Care at SmallSat Conference. click here for more information.
• SAR Analytics Symposium
• Save our Oceans and Coastal Areas with the Help of Copernicus Data!
• Space.com EXPO
• Space Tech Expo Europe,
• Space Tech Expo Europe 2022 Conferences 
• Space start-ups and SMEs won’t want to miss our 27 April workshop on funding opportunities with the European Innovation Council. The online event will look at the EIC’s added-value funding instruments, with a particular focus on the EIC Accelerator. 
• SWF Provides Scholarships for Young Professionals to Attend IAC
• Space-based Innovation and Digitalisation for the School of Tomorrow: Social Inclusion. →
• Sustainable Solutions for Urban Planning
• Webinar on partnerships for Earth Observation
• CODES: The Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) is a global platform that advances action by governments, companies, and civil society as part of the implementation process for the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. It brings together a multi-stakeholder community to co-design and deliver collaborative action towards achieving a digital planet for global sustainability. Join here. 
• Taking Datacenters to Space
• The Future of REDD+ Financing
• The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• The U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space holds its 65th session.
• Unlocking UP42's Potential for Sustainable Urban Planning
• Ursa Space, Spire Partner on Maritime Domain Awareness Services for Government
• 5th New Space Atlantic Summit
• 29th Workshop on Space Technology for Socio-Economic Benefits 
• 2nd European Defence and Security Conference- 11 October 2022

• Methods for exploiting data and knowledge for extremely precise outcomes (analysis, prediction, decision support), reducing complexity and presenting insights in understandable way (RIA) (Deadline 05/04/22) [Read here]
• Extreme data mining, aggregation and analytics technologies and solutions (RIA) (Deadline 05/04/22) [Read here]
• Innovative tools and business models (Deadline 07/04/22) [Read here]
• Artificial intelligence, big data and democracy (Deadline 20/04/22) [Read here]
• Scaling up multi-party computation, data anonymisation techniques, and synthetic data generation (Deadline 21/04/22) [Read here]
• Technologies and solutions for data trading, monetizing, exchange and interoperability (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA) (Deadline 22/04/22) [Read here]
• Replicable solutions for a cross sector compliant energy ecosystem (Deadline 26/04/22) [Read here]
• Federated European infrastructure for cancer images data (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! Call for proposals - Data for Cultural Heritage (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• Security (law enforcement): AI-based pilot (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! GovTech Incubator (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! Advanced Dgital Skills (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! Cloud Data and Testing and Experimentation Facilities (Several calls) (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]

• A Roadmap for the Next-Generation IoT in Europe (Read here)
• The 4th Call for Active and Healthy Ageing Reference Sites is now open (Read here)
• Connecting Europe Facility - Digital: calls for proposals' deadline extended until 20 April 2022 (Read here)
• New Transitions Performance Index 2021: EU shows strong performance in its transition towards sustainability (Read here)
• EU ministers reinforce the need for common values and principles in international research and innovation (Read here)
• Open Calls network

• European Digital Identity: Online consultation platform on European Digital Identity Wallets (Deadline n/a) [More info here]
• Cyber resilience act – new cybersecurity rules for digital products and ancillary services (Deadline 25/05/22) [More info here]

• Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (Read here)
• Announcing the 2022 AI Index Report (Read here)
• DMA: EU lawmakers ready to trade digital governance for tighter obligations (Read here)
• What will Europe’s digital economy look like after the Digital Services Act? (Read here)
• Education key to closing digital skills and gender gaps, say stakeholders (Read here)
• EU negotiators prepare to close in on Digital Markets Act (Read here)
• Commission invites citizens and organisations to share their views on the European Cyber Resilience Act (Read here)
• EIC Tech to Market Innovation Talks: Webinar Series (Read here)

• Global Earth Observation Satellite Market Insight | Explained Pre & Post COVID-19 Impact

•  ICEYE to Provide Access of its SAR Constellation to Ukraine. 
• Ukraine gains enhanced access to Iceye imagery and data
• The huge markets of defence and climate change mitigation, that Seraphim’s portfolio addresses, have become even more relevant in 2022, according to Edison Investment Research, with floods, prolonged heatwaves and the war in Ukraine.
• #Space4Ukraine

• EUSPA is hiring! Current vacancies include Ground System Service Provision Engineer, Galileo System Evolution Manager, Operator at the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre (GSMC) and Secured Communications Engineer.  Checked out EUSPA’s latest job vacancies and procurement opportunities?
• Interested in a traineeship? Watch our short video on the EUSPA traineeship experience and learn more about the current openings.
• Internships at Planet
• PhD position for advanced solutions for managing of crowd-based street-level surveys at University of Trento, Italy
• PhD position for multi-source spatial inference in support to sustainable development at University of Trento, Italy
• PhD position for computer vision approaches targeting urban dynamical features under time-varying conditions at University of Trento, Italy
• PhD position on digital twins for sustainable and smart cities at University of Trento, Italy
• Postdoc in satellite observations, machine learning and coastal forecasting at CSIRO, Australia
• Software Engineer with experience in big data at EPFL, Switzerland
• Engineer for weather remote sensing at The Aerospace Corporation, United States
• Assistant Professor in environmental geosciences and climate change at Santa Clara University, United States
• Assistant Professor in Earth sciences and climate sciences at Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Assistant Professor in ocean solutions and carbon at Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Assistant Professor in adaptation strategies in deltas at Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Assistant Professor in past environmental change in mountain regions at Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Assistant Professor on model-based analysis of system transitions for climate mitigation and adaptation at Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Assistant Professor on nature-based solutions on climate adaptation and water at Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Director of Applied Biodiversity Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• PhD and job opportunities with Planetek.
• Postdoc for forest planning at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Postdoc in remote sensing for agricultural soil salinity at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
• Postdoc in forest ecosystem responses to climate change at KIT, Germany
• Research assistant in spatial analyses and social-ecological systems modeling for landscape planning at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Director of Science and Director of TEC at ESA, Netherlands

• SAR satellites for Agriculture
• Space and Defence: Protecting Europe and Strengthening our Capacity to Act A History of Copernicus
• A History of Copernicus 
• Old but gold – Use of historic Copernicus EO data
• EO-Lab is Launched – New Access to Earth Observation Data
• LDE NL Space Campus Summer School – Day 6
• EDA Defence Innovation Prize 2022 Open for Submissions
• IMPRS/SKIES workshop on Entrepreneurship
• Opportunities in Space with Satuccino
• The EUSPA Space Academy – Free Online Training for Space Entrepreneurs

• Airbus + Australian Space + partners all sign a strategic agreement with the Australian Department of Defence

•  AI, Drones to Rapidly Transform Indian Economy: WEF C4IR
• China launches new satellite for Earth observation
• Commission adopts new European Innovation Agenda
• EUSPA looks forward to working with the new Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
• EUSPA’s mission and responsibilities and how the EU Space Programme supports EU policies like the Green Deal and the Digital Agenda. You can read the full interview here 
• Fit for 55 package: Council reaches general approaches relating to emissions reductions and their social impacts
• India will now allow private ownership of imaging satellites.
• Indian Space Industry Will Expand Five Times in Next Few Years
• Indian Space Vision for Next 10 Years
• Modernisation Fund invests €2.4 billion to accelerate the green transition in 7 beneficiary countries
• Oman - Four agreements signed for modernising defence sector
• Paving the way to COP 27: the Bonn Climate Change Conference
• Planet Signs Contract To Provide German Federal Agencies With Daily Satellite Imagery
• Remote sensing as an effective solution for the development of the rice sector in Uruguay

• Rwanda joins African Development Bank-supported remote data collection initiative

• Synspective released the first images from the Japanese startup's second synthetic aperture radar satellite, StriX-β, launched in March. Synspective's first commercial satellite, StriX-1, is scheduled to launch later this year. By around 2026, the company plans to operate a constellation of 30 SAR satellites. 
• The USA Department of Homeland Security's new space policy focuses on cybersecurity and resilience. 
• Unpacking the African Landscape for Satellite Services
• UAE Steps Up Space Ambitions With a New Fund and SAR Constellation Plans

• According to an article published in Horizon, the EU’s research and innovation magazine, European Space isn’t just good for business, it’s also good for the environment. EUSPA Executive Director Rodrigo da Costa explains how the EU Space Programme is contributing to the EU Green Deal. 
• Announcing Planet University & Community
• CAMS, the Copernicus service that helps protect your skin from the summer sun
• Copernicus for the preservation of global cultural heritage sites
• Continuation of ICESat-2 approved after 3+ years of big results. Read more...
• Climate Change Prompts Caribbean Island to Create its Digital Twin
• Do you want to download all the GIS4Schools' materials produced? Have a look at the open-access archive on Zenodo: https://bit.ly/3tsPVQL/ https://github.com/GIS4Schools
• Ger­man radar satel­lite Ter­raSAR-X 15 years in space and still in per­fect shape. Read more...

• GEO Individual Excellence Awards 2022

• GIS4Schools Thinkific and its community register here. Download the GIS4Schools Handbook here: https://forms.gle/JsP2Lc7kR1Hdyw1C9

• Earth imagery companies reimagine satellite tasking 

• Earth Cube:  Annual Meeting with presentation slides and proceedings is found HERE.
• European Commissioners Thierry Breton and Mariya Gabriel invite students from the EU and African Union to propose a name for the new space-based secure connectivity system. 
• Enabling Crop Analytics at Scale (ECAAS). Learn more about the ECAAS project here.

• ESA - EarthCARE takes a big stretch

• ESA science missions
• FEMA and NASA release  comprehensive climate action guide
• Gabriel reveals five pillars of the European Innovation Agenda
• Geospatial Knowledge for National Development: The India Story
• Geospatial Intelligence to Mitigate Global Geopolitical Risks
• How Copernicus supports you with seasonal allergies

• Is your current way of assessing and evaluating your climate-related projects taking up too much time and budget? Do you have an increasing backlog of simple or repetitive tasks, and not enough GIS specialists to do them?

• Innovative data satellite enters commercial service

• Kleos Space invests in future growth in the UK

• Landsat: A guide to the Earth observation satellite fleet.  Celebrate 50 years of Landsat with these stunning images

• NOAA selects GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, Spire for commercial space weather contracts

• Mapping Common Ground: Jack Dangermond Kicks Off ESRI UC 2022 
• MDA provides Global Fishing Watch access to help combat illegal fishing
• Methane levels surged in 2020 despite lockdowns
• Metaspectral and HySpeed Computing to Develop Earth

• NOAA Announces Commercial Space Weather Data Pilot Awards

• Unpacking the African Landscape for Satellite Services
• Pandemic, Climate, Geopolitical Crises Jeopardizing 2030 Agenda

• Planet and Leaf Partner To Provide Agricultural Insights For Developers

• Public Sector Expands Earth Observation Applications

• Precision Farming Dealer's Best of the Web

• Radiant Earth Foundation Releases LandCoverNet

• Satellite Data Saves Lives On Earth. Read

• Satellite Vu smallsat clone to be built by SSTL

• Secure space-based connectivity
• Systematic Observations Financing Facility
• Space For Inspiration: Business Edition. →
• Spottitt Metrics Factory platform!
• Spire plans to add microwave sounders to its satellites to improve weather forecasts. 
• The United Kingdom is working to become a leader in space sustainability.
• Thales and QinetiQ to Study VLEO Skimsats Under ESA Contract 

• Using Earth Observation To Measure ESG Impact

• What makes imagery from Pléiades Neo different? How easy the Living Library is to use. Access 30cm, 50cm and 1.5m resolution imagery all in one place

• World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) is looking for inspiring people who are making a difference in the geospatial ecosystem. Do you know any such championing diversity, equity, and inclusion? They should be nominated so they can win this Award!

• AI, Digital Twin for Water Recycling,Circular Economy Transition
• Agri-TechE REAP Start-Up Showcase 
• Airbus Launches Business to Commercialize HAPS, Led by Samer Halawi
• Balancing bureaucracy and accountability with speed and flexibility in Horizon Europe partnerships
• Earth Observation in Re/Insurance Business
•  Entrepreneurship Day 
• ESA has awarded funds to develop a demonstrator for Skimsat, a small satellite platform designed to operate in very low Earth orbit. 
• Kleos Space Invests for Future Growth in the UK
• GomSpace finalizes their contract for the delivery of two smallsats to the German Space Agency (DLR)
• Gilat Wins New Asia Defense Contract
• Launchers as Strategic Edge to Independence in Space

• Metaspectral and HySpeed Computing to Develop Earth

• Metaspectral and HySpeed Computing to Develop Earth Observation Payload for the International

• Measat 3D Enters Commercial Service
• Microsoft, Xplore, NOAA demonstrate cloud-based satellite operations
• NanoAvionics CCO Explains How Kongsberg Acquisition Will Help Company Scale
• Norway’s Kongsberg to Acquire Smallsat Manufacturer NanoAvionics 
• Oxford Space Systems and SSTL have completed development of a deployable antenna for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites. 
• Paper or plastic bag at checkout? NanoAvionics sells their first cubesat already operating in LEO

• PlanetScape Ai and Planet’s Professional Services Team Scale the Fight for Human Rights

• Rendered AI makes sense of complex synthetic data

• Satellite Vu Orders Second Thermal Imaging Satellite from SSTL 

• SpaceX Launch Included Satellites from 5 Seraphim Portfolio Companies 
• Sony establishes subsidiary company dedicated to space

• Space Alliance brings new firepower to the UK's national space strategy with Leonardo

• Space Development Agency Awards L3Harris and Northrop Grumman $1.3B for Tracking Layer Satellites
• Quantum Technologies In Space – A Rapidly Growing Niche Field . Quantum ideas are born in Europe
• Xplore completes satellite testing of Microsoft Azure Orbital
• The impact on advanced computing on AI
• The Space service Hub, powered by ESA, is a new platform on the Eurisy website to showcase a diverse set of downstream satellite-based applications.

• Vaya Space to launch satellite constellation for All2Space

• ESA awards Airbus a €160M contract for the FORUM Earth monitoring satellite
• ESA signs a deployment deal with ASECNA that brings EGNOS tech to Africa
• European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator selects start-ups for funding 
• Planet reveals $146 million NRO award and quarterly revenues
• Planet to provide German Federal Agencies with daily satellite imagery
• Sercel Selected as the Successful Bidder for the Acquisition of ION Software Business
• Spire Global awarded $6 Million NASA contract extension for EO data
• Space Service Hub Launch Event

• Thales Alenia Space and QinetiQ to pave the way for small multimission satellites

• 1Spatial awarded 1integrate call-off contract with Defra

• Earth Observation Big Data Service Market Analysis Outlooks 2022
• Europe Satellite Transponder Market Latest Trends, In-depth Analysis and Opportunities till 2028
• European Geospatial Industry: Today and Tomorrow
• Euroconsult: Space Business Monthly News June 2022
• Euroconsult: Asia Satellite Business Week (ASBW) Report
• ESPI JUne 2022
• FT Investing in Space Conference 2022
• GeoBuiz 22: Global Geospatial Industry Outlook Report
• Gis Market Size Research Reports & Industry Analysis
• Global Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Markets, 12th Edition
• Maritime SATCOM Markets, 10^th Edition report.
• Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
• Satellite Based Earth Observation Market Economy Challenges 2022-2028
• Satellite Based Earth Observation

• Space Service Market Applications & Forecast 2030

• SIA: State of the Satellite Industry report from the Satellite Industry Association. SIA Reports the Global Space Industry Grew 4% in 2021 
• Synspective’s first images from SAR satellite revealing three cities around the world
• Statistical Report on Remote Sensing Satellite Market
• Quantum technologies in space
• What was the value of the Satellite Remote Sensing market in Europe in 2022?

• Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Extreme Events with Earth Blox.Register Now >
• Agri-TechE REAP Start-Up Showcase
• Copernicus Masters

• Copernicus Frontier Tech Challenge for Europe’s Digital Future

• Copernicus Masters 2022: All Partner Evaluation Meetings, 18 July - 16 September 2022
• Discover how EU Space Programme technologies benefit the shipping industry at the 1st Pytheas Maritime Space Forum. Happening 15 July, this event is jointly organised by isalos.net and EUSPA. Registration is now open.
• National Conference on "Development of Space Start-ups Ecosystem in India" (DeSSEI)
• Digital Twins, Climate, and Smart Cities are Converging at the OGC Member Meeting. Register for the OGC Member Meeting and learn more.
• Discover the impact of EU Space Programme technologies on the shipping industry at the 1^st Pytheas Maritime Space Forum happening 15 July, organised by isalos.net and EUSPA. Registration is now open.
• ESA’s Industry Space Days 2022. Read more
• Euroconsult's WSBW 2022. The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• EU Space Week is set to happen 3 – 6 October in Prague. More information and registration will be coming soon!. EU Space Week 2022, the go-to event for Europe’s space community, is happening 3 – 6 October in Prague, Czech Republic.
• Eurisy events page
• European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Check out the interview here. 

• Get Support for Your EO Solution in the ESA SpaceLeap Challenge!

• Get Local Support and Double Your Chances of Winning Copernicus Masters 2022!

• Geospatial Caravan: Embracing One & All, GWF 2023 

• How can clusters better build international missions for SMEs?

• how to access Pléiades Neo data in the Living Library
• INTERGEO 2022, 18 – 22 October 2022
• INNOspace Masters Conference and Awards Ceremony on 5 July 2022.
• Introduction to Geospatial Technologies for Achieving SDGs 2022 – Food Security
• Industry Space Days 2022
• Geospatial World Forum
• GeoBuiz Europe Summit: Geospatial World Forum 2022. Happening 10 – 12 May in Amsterdam
• GEOINT 2022, Descartes Labs Government Will Present Tradecraft Competition + Two Workshops

• GIS4Schools E-Learning Platform webinar. Register here: https://bit.ly/3RA23dg

• The Netherlands Space Office, together with dotSPACE are organising information and network sessions about European funding calls in a series of webinars.
• NASA ARSET Advanced Training to be held in August 2022 (Satellite Remote Sensing for Measuring Urban Heat Islands and Constructing Heat Vulnerability Indices), as a follow up from the NASA ARSET Introductory Training held in November 2020 (Satellite Remote Sensing for Urban Heat Islands)! 
• OGC for a Special Session at the Member Meeting: The Metaverse is Geospatial

• Optimise Transport and Mobility Systems with Copernicus Data

• Paris Space Week 2022 →

• SAR Analytics Symposium

• Save our Oceans and Coastal Areas with the Help of Copernicus Data!

• Space Tech Expo Europe,
• Space start-ups and SMEs won’t want to miss our 27 April workshop on funding opportunities with the European Innovation Council. The online event will look at the EIC’s added-value funding instruments, with a particular focus on the EIC Accelerator. 
• SWF Provides Scholarships for Young Professionals to Attend IAC
• Space-based Innovation and Digitalisation for the School of Tomorrow: Social Inclusion. →

• Sustainable Solutions for Urban Planning

• Webinar on partnerships for Earth Observation
• CODES: The Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) is a global platform that advances action by governments, companies, and civil society as part of the implementation process for the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. It brings together a multi-stakeholder community to co-design and deliver collaborative action towards achieving a digital planet for global sustainability. Join here. 
• Taking Datacenters to Space
• The Future of REDD+ Financing
• The 25th edition of the World Satellite Business Week is coming to Paris 12 -16 September. EUSPA will be there to discuss how the Agency supports companies integrating European space into their business solutions.
• The U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space holds its 65th session.
• Unlocking UP42's Potential for Sustainable Urban Planning
• 5th New Space Atlantic Summit
• 29th Workshop on Space Technology for Socio-Economic Benefits 
• 2nd European Defence and Security Conference- 11 October 2022

• Methods for exploiting data and knowledge for extremely precise outcomes (analysis, prediction, decision support), reducing complexity and presenting insights in understandable way (RIA) (Deadline 05/04/22) [Read here]
• Extreme data mining, aggregation and analytics technologies and solutions (RIA) (Deadline 05/04/22) [Read here]
• Innovative tools and business models (Deadline 07/04/22) [Read here]
• Artificial intelligence, big data and democracy (Deadline 20/04/22) [Read here]
• Scaling up multi-party computation, data anonymisation techniques, and synthetic data generation (Deadline 21/04/22) [Read here]
• Technologies and solutions for data trading, monetizing, exchange and interoperability (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA) (Deadline 22/04/22) [Read here]
• Replicable solutions for a cross sector compliant energy ecosystem (Deadline 26/04/22) [Read here]
• Federated European infrastructure for cancer images data (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! Call for proposals - Data for Cultural Heritage (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• Security (law enforcement): AI-based pilot (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! GovTech Incubator (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! Advanced Dgital Skills (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]
• NEW! Cloud Data and Testing and Experimentation Facilities (Several calls) (Deadline 17/05/22) [Read here]

• A Roadmap for the Next-Generation IoT in Europe (Read here)
• The 4th Call for Active and Healthy Ageing Reference Sites is now open (Read here)
• Connecting Europe Facility - Digital: calls for proposals' deadline extended until 20 April 2022 (Read here)
• New Transitions Performance Index 2021: EU shows strong performance in its transition towards sustainability (Read here)
• EU ministers reinforce the need for common values and principles in international research and innovation (Read here)

• European Digital Identity: Online consultation platform on European Digital Identity Wallets (Deadline n/a) [More info here]
• Cyber resilience act – new cybersecurity rules for digital products and ancillary services (Deadline 25/05/22) [More info here]

• Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (Read here)
• Announcing the 2022 AI Index Report (Read here)
• DMA: EU lawmakers ready to trade digital governance for tighter obligations (Read here)
• What will Europe’s digital economy look like after the Digital Services Act? (Read here)
• Education key to closing digital skills and gender gaps, say stakeholders (Read here)
• EU negotiators prepare to close in on Digital Markets Act (Read here)
• Commission invites citizens and organisations to share their views on the European Cyber Resilience Act (Read here)
• EIC Tech to Market Innovation Talks: Webinar Series (Read here)

• Global Earth Observation Satellite Market Insight | Explained Pre & Post COVID-19 Impact

• Planet’s SkySat views of a now abandoned Snake Island, Ukraine

• EUSPA is hiring! Current vacancies include Ground System Service Provision Engineer, Galileo System Evolution Manager, Operator at the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre (GSMC) and Secured Communications Engineer.  Checked out EUSPA’s latest job vacancies and procurement opportunities?
• Interested in a traineeship? Watch our short video on the EUSPA traineeship experience and learn more about the current openings.
• Internships at Planet
• Postdoc for forest planning at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Postdoc in remote sensing for agricultural soil salinity at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
• Postdoc in forest ecosystem responses to climate change at KIT, Germany
• Research assistant in spatial analyses and social-ecological systems modeling for landscape planning at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Director of Science and Director of TEC at ESA, Netherlands