Geoff’s Blog: The Cassini Initiative
- July 19, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EOcafe, Geoff's Blog
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Geoff’s Blog: Index Insurance – A new Business Opportunity?
- June 9, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, EOcafe, European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
Geoff’s Blog: The Green Deal Explained
- May 7, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
Geoff’s Blog: AI and EO revisited
- April 22, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
Celebrating our first anniversary we returned to the evidently popular subject of the use of AI technology for Earth Observations. In a previous EOcafe on the 4th February, we heard from the AI4EO project which is one of many springing up with different sponsors at European and national levels to promote this synergy between technologies. There are many initiatives[1] and one of our aims in EOcafe is to try to help clarify this somewhat complicated landscape.
Geoff’s blog: EO in the News or a (satellite) image is worth a thousand words
- April 9, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EOcafe, European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
Geoff’s blog: The Reality of EO in the gaming world?
- March 29, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
Playing games is a an extremely old pastime but digital gaming – which is what is generally understood by the term – is new. Whilst gaming is big business, the imaginary world of games may not seem the obvious place to take real images of the Earth. But for a few companies it is and there is some very interesting business going on to bring these two worlds together.
One way, the most obvious (perhaps) is to use EO images as a backdrop for the game. This is the case with the Microsoft Flight Simulator which we understand is now using Sentinel-2 data to provide the terrain over which the aircraft is flying.
Geoff’s blog: EO realizing the ambitions of the European Green Deal
- March 16, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, EOcafe, Geoff's Blog
Geoff’s Blog: The EO and raw materials sectors: Is this partnership blooming?
- February 26, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, EOcafe, Geoff's Blog
In the EOCafe, “where the EO Community meet”, our subject for discussion had a more applications driven focus. This time it was dedicated to the use of EO information for the raw materials sector. “Raw materials” includes mining but also other means of extraction and even recycling as a means for production. Although, for the EO community, it could be obvious that EO data/information is useful for mining companies in several of its stages of operations, (from the exploration phase, environmental assessment & permits, to design, operations, mine closure and aftercare), for the mining sector there is still a long way to go for this relationship to succeed.
Challenges and possibilities on bringing EO and AI together
- February 11, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, Geoff's Blog
New year, new EUSPA – bespoke synergies with multiple (space) users
- January 27, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, EARSC News, Geoff's Blog
The first EOcafe of the year 2021 provoked a great deal of interest with over 200 joining us in the virtual cafe to hear about the new European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA). It is fair to affirm that the (European) space community is eagerly awaiting the entrance of this new player and its influence in the future of the EU space programme activities, especially for Copernicus. Once the new European Space Legislation is adopted, the current European GNSS Agency (GSA) will be transformed into the EUSPA with its responsibilities extended beyond the current role of market development of EGNOS and Galileo.