Spectral Reflectance Newsletter #48
Weekly newsletter on Earth Observation
Moving Spectral Reflectance to Substack
TL;DR
Moving Spectral Reflectance to Substack!
Plans for expanding Spectral Reflectance into an EO Hub featuring content dedicated to developers, researchers and enthusiasts in the field of Earth Observation.
Level-2 News
Hyperspectral startup Wyvern signs on to fly with Loft Orbital next year [link]
”Hyperspectral imagery startup Wyvern has booked space on a Loft Orbital satellite bus that will launch next year”
SpaceChain pivots to combine AI with Earth imagery [link]
”SpaceChain, a Singapore startup with blockchain nodes in orbit, is rolling out a service that integrates artificial intelligence with Earth imagery.
I-Sat, from SpaceChain’s U.S.-based SC Solutions, is designed to simplify the process of answering questions with Earth observation data.”
Australia Selects ICEYE for Near Real-Time Flood Data [link]
”The Federal Government of Australia has selected ICEYE to supply flood and bushfire hazard data for all states and territories.”
Umbra Partners with EUSI to Offer SAR Imagery [link]
”Umbra announced a strategic partnership with European Space Imaging (EUSI), a provider of Very High Resolution (VHR) optical satellite imagery.
This partnership will allow customers to purchase Umbra’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data directly through EUSI.”
Final images before Aeolus demise [link]
”Aeolus was in orbit around Earth for four years, eleven months and six days. For three hours at the very end, a very brief period, it was space debris.”
Snapshots
Panama Canal Traffic Backup [link]
”While some weather-related delays are mere annoyances, others slow the rhythms of global shipping. Due to ongoing drought and low water levels, ship traffic was restricted through the Panama Canal in late summer 2023, leaving an above-average number of vessels waiting to make the transit.”
Interesting reads
Satellites detect where locust infestations begin [link]
”Locusts can destroy grain crops and pastures, threatening people's livelihoods. In an international project, researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have now developed methods to help detect locust outbreaks as early as possible and take action against them. “
World’s First LiDAR Map of the Globe [link]
Follow this interview featured on Geospatial World with Clint Graumann, CEO & Founder of NUVIEW.
Podcasts
An Introduction to Earth Observation with Aravind Ravichandran - MBM#50 [link]
For the 50th episode of Minds Behind Maps, Maxime Lenormand hosted
Competitions
Data-Centric Land Cover Classification Challenge [link]
”The data-centric land cover classification challenge, as part of the Workshop on Machine Vision for Earth Observation and Environment Monitoring and the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2023, aims at novel data-centric approaches towards selecting a core set of training samples for a semantic segmentation task.”
Upcoming Events
Big Data From Space 2023 [link]
BiDS’23 will be held on 6-9 November 2023 in Austria Center Vienna.