EARSC, the European Association of Remote Sensing companies, is conducting an industry survey to map the state and health of companies providing EO services in Europe. Will you contribute?
Airbus will also supply satellite imagery from its Pléiades Neo constellation to Nestlé for its reforestation efforts
Albedo, another US-based EO startup won a $1.25M grant from the US Space Force - the company is launching a constellation of satellites into very low Earth orbit to collect high-resolution imagery (10 cm) and thermal data
BlackSky, through its reseller Telespazio, will provide the Spanish region of Aragon with first-ever high-cadence, low-latency satellite imagery services
LiveEO received an €800K grant from ESA to develop monitoring services for the forestry sector and insurers based on satellite data and AI
CropX, an Israeli agtech startup that offers a farm monitoring solution based on data from in-situ sources and satellites raised $30M in Series C funding
Hydrosat, a US-based EO startup raised $20M in private investment and government grants to acquire daily thermal infrared data for plant water stress monitoring among other applications
Iceye has announced the Beta release of its Wildfire Insights product aimed at the insurance sector
Maxar expects the first two of its Legion satellites to launch this summer providing high-resolution imagery (30 cm), and plans to add two more to the planned six-satellite constellation
Nuview, a US-based startup that aims to launch LiDAR-equipped satellites came out of stealth mode, while also announcing that it closed its first round of funding last year and that it has also won a government contract
Norwegian ground segment services firm KSAT was selected by the European Maritime Safety Agency to provide SAR monitoring services
Planet Italia, an EO services company won two contracts worth €42M from ESA for the development of downstream services derived from data acquired through the future Italian satellite constellation IRIDE
SAR satellite company Iceye signed an agreement with insurance solution firm Global Parametrics to provide flood data for parametric insurance
SAR satellite firm Capella Space will supply imagery to LiveEO, a German EO startup for integrating into its disaster response solutions
Satlantis has bought a majority stake in SuperSharp, a UK-based startup developing foldable thermal infrared telescopes
Synspective, is partnering with Thailand’s satellite operator Thaicom to provide real-time data for disaster management efforts
SkyWatch won a $1.1M contract from the Canadian Space Agency to advance the application of AI for EO mission planning and data management and distribution
Spire launched a weather insights platform specifically aimed at the maritime industry, powered by data from radio occultation satellites
The shareholders of Maxar Technologies have approved the acquisition by private equity firm Advent International, for $6.4B
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
Accenture is collaborating with climate intelligence provider Cervest to provide climate risk information to its clients spanning across industries
ESA launchedWorldCereal, 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;
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
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
Weather intelligence firm Tomorrow.ioannounced 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
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
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
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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