• 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;

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

• How Apple Started Working with Satellite to Save Lives
• 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;

• 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;

• 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;

• 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;

• 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;

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

• 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;

• 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;

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 )