EO-ALERT: NEWSLETTER – October 2020 – Issue 3
Newsletter June 2019
State of Climate Services 2020 Report: Move from Early Warnings to Early Action
Geneva, 13 October 2020 – Over the past 50 years, more than 11,000 disasters have been attributed to weather, climate and water-related hazards, involving 2 million deaths and US$ 3.6 trillion in economic losses. While the average number of deaths…
EO-ALERT Experimental Campaign for Ship Detection
To validate the performances of the high-speed avionics test bench developed in the EO-ALERT project in a representative environment, a testing campaign using real Earth Observation (EO) data from the chosen scenarios is scheduled for the beginning of July 2020…
World Meteorological Day 2020
Climate & Water World Meteorological Day 23 March 2020 Every 23 March, the World Meteorological Organization commemorates the coming into force of the Convention establishing the World Meteorological Organization on 23 March 1950. World Meteorological Day takes place every year…
Satellite data saves precious minutes and millions of dollars during disasters, NASA study finds
A first of its kind study by researchers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, calculated the Value of Information (VOI) for the near real-time satellite data available during a disaster. The team used MODIS data and…
Deimos Space organizes the first EO-ALERT workshop for this week in Madrid!
EO-ALERT Technical Workshop on the Satellite Processing Chain for Rapid Civil Alerts Hosted by the EO-ALERT Consortium, with funding from the EU-H2020. The 27th of November the first EO-ALERT workshop will take place in Madrid with the scope of: Presenting…
Tracking Typhoon Hagibis from Space
Even just within the last couple of months, Cyclones Fani, Idai and Kenneth have brought devastation to millions. With the frequency and severity of extreme weather like this expected to increase against the backdrop of climate change, it is more…
New potential for tracking severe storms
Even just within the last couple of months, Cyclones Fani, Idai and Kenneth have brought devastation to millions. With the frequency and severity of extreme weather like this expected to increase against the backdrop of climate change, it is more…
AI for Earth observation and numerical weather prediction
After substantial investments to build and launch sensors designed to observe the atmosphere, numerical weather and climate prediction have benefited greatly from the assimilation of satellite data. The overall improvement in forecasts include advances in modeling, computer power and observations.…
Astrocast Launches IoT into Space
Nanosatellite Network Pilots Bring Affordable Communications to Remote Areas for Marine, Industrial and Water Purification IoT Devices Astrocast announced today the launch of 3 new pilots of its Low Earth Orbit Nanosatellite Network. The pilots with Actia, Marine Instruments, and…
Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin Team to Make Downlinking Satellite Data Easier and Less Expensive
Now customers can connect with multiple satellites at the same time, have nearly continual coverage in mission-critical situations, and lower the cost of getting information from space to Earth. Customers can quickly and easily download, process, store, analyze, and act…
NASA Mobilizes to Aid California Fires Response
For the past two weeks NASA scientists and satellite data analysts have been working every day producing maps and damage assessments that can be used by disaster managers battling the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in…
NASA Tests Tiny Satellites to Track Global Storms
How many times have you stepped outside into a surprise rainstorm without an umbrella and wished that weather forecasts were more accurate? A satellite no bigger than a shoebox may one day help. Small enough to fit inside a backpack,…
SMOS offers new perspective on hurricanes
With recent stories in the news about the devastation brought by hurricanes and typhoons to the US and Asia, we are reminded of how important it is to predict the paths of these mighty storms and also learn more about…
NovaSAR: UK radar satellite launches to track illegal shipping activity
The first all-British radar satellite has launched to orbit on an Indian rocket. Called NovaSAR, it has the ability to take pictures of the surface of the Earth in every kind of weather, day or night. The spacecraft will assume…
How satellites can help put out fires – or even prevent them
The Australian landscape has been shaped and impacted by bushfires for tens of thousands of years, with some of the natural flora and fauna even evolving to become reliant on them. But Australia is also no stranger to the destruction…
Greek wildfires: Satellite images show extent of the damage
Satellite images show Greece’s worst wildfires in a decade from space, as the country battles to control the blazes in which at least 60 people have died. Pictures of the wildfires were taken by satellites from the EU’s Earth Observation…
Aeolus: Wind satellite weathers technical storm
Aeolus Satellite (Credits: ESA) They say there is no gain without pain, but when the European Space Agency (Esa) set out in 2002 to develop its Aeolus satellite, no-one could have imagined the grief the project would bring. Designed to…
Small packages to test big space technology advances
(17 May 2018 – JPL) This weekend, when the next cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station lifts off from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, it will be carrying among its supplies and experiments three cereal box-sized satellites…
EO-ALERT: Next Generation Satellite Processing Chain for Rapid Civil Alerts
The EO-ALERT project is a European Union research activity, with the aim of achieving very high throughput and very low latency in the delivery of Earth observation images and image products. This project has received funding from the European Union’s…
Smoke and Fire From Space: Wildfire Images From NASA Satellites
By Jonathan Lloyd NASA is tracking wildfires globally, offering a view from high above Earth that reveals the scope and size of major fires, some of which produce smoke plumes that stretch for miles. Using satellite imagery systems, researchers can…
Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM)
ISS Science for Everyone Science Objectives for Everyone The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) is an Earth observation facility for the study of severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth’s atmosphere and climate. Upper-atmospheric lightning, known as transient luminous events…
Satellite Images Show Damage From Papua New Guinea Earthquake
By Aaron Clark and Stephen Stapczynski Komo Airfield, Komo, Papua New Guinea on Nov. 10, 2016. Satellite image ©2018 DigitalGlobe Satellite images show the extent of damage in Papua New Guinea after a massive earthquake rocked the country’s remote…
Next-Generation Weather Satellite Launches to Track Extreme Storms
A powerful new weather satellite launched today (March 1) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, heading toward a perch above the eastern Pacific Ocean to monitor extreme weather as it develops. The satellite, called GOES-S (Geostationary Operational Environmental…
PAZ Earth observation satellite successfully launched
Spanish Earth observation satellite PAZ has been successfully launched on 22 February 2018 at 15:17 CET. PAZ is being positioned on the same orbit as the German TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X radar satellites. A constellation of three satellites will make images…
Satellite-based earthquake early warning system tested against Chilean great quakes
Source: Seismological Society of America Summary: Researchers testing a satellite-based earthquake early warning system developed for the U.S. West Coast found that the system performed well in a “replay” of three large earthquakes that occurred in Chile between 2010 and…
Aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Florida captured by Deimos-1
Deimos-1 is monitoring the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and captured South Florida yesterday, September 12th. The image above, captured by Deimos-1, shows the entire city.
Houston flooding captured by Deimos-1 and Deimos-2
Deimos-1 and Deimos-2 captured the catastrophic flooding that Harvey caused in the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The image above, captured by Deimos-1, shows the entire city. This very high resolution image, captured by Deimos-2 shows Addicks Reservoir and its surroundings after the overspill…