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Synspective, a Tokyo based SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite data and solutions provider, and Insight Terra, a London based start-up providing a cloud based environmental and infrastructure risk management platform and solutions, have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver a new space enabled data and monitoring solution for the mining industry. The solution uses ...

MGISS, a UK geospatial company, aims to understand how satellite imagery can identify areas where developments could disrupt gas and water supply. The Interruption Prevention Alert Service project will use satellite data and services to automatically detect changes to the built environment in order to prevent outages in critical utilities. The company argued that a ...

The rocket was set to make history, carrying satellites on what would be the first-ever orbital launch from the U.K. on Monday night. But Virgin Orbit says its LauncherOne rocket “experienced an anomaly” just before it could deliver its payload, and the craft was lost. Virgin Orbit says it’s reviewing the flight data to determine ...

Live flood alert InsurTech platform Previsico has partnered with the new €4.3bn Meteosat Third Generation satellite system. This new system will allow Previsico to be more accurate and timelier with flood warnings, providing insurers and property owners with more time to mitigate flood impacts. The first satellite of the new generation was launched on 13 ...

Vodafone has created a 3D digital twin of its UK mobile mast network to allow its engineers to visualise and strategise network improvements or expansion. It will allow them to make instant decisions to improve services to customers without leaving their desks. The digital twin involved mapping more than 40 million environmental features using advanced ...

The National Forest Company (NFC) has awarded Cadcorp the contract to provide Cadcorp SIS Desktop, and cloud hosted Cadcorp SIS WebMap and Cadcorp Spatial Database Service. The contract includes a variety of services such as application management, support, and training. The National Forest covers 200 square miles of the Midlands. Since 1995, over 9 million ...

The University will take delivery of the system, which includes an Over-the-Side (OTS) transducer mount for deployment flexibility, this December. The partnership also includes the potential to switch to a next-generation GeoPulse system in 2023 as well as a one-day guest lecture and processing workshop for the University’s MSc Hydrography and BSc Ocean Exploration and ...

An international group of researchers, led by a team at MIT, has developed a programmable, wireless device that can control light, such as by focusing a beam in a specific direction or manipulating the light’s intensity and doing it orders of magnitude more quickly than commercial devices. Their device, called spatial light modulator, could create ...

The Department for Education (DfE) has released further details of its National Education Nature Park, created to teach children of all ages about climate change and improve biodiversity across the country. Esri UK is providing a digital mapping platform and expertise in biodiversity mapping to help underpin this exciting initiative, first announced at COP26 by ...

British satellite operator Satellite Vu, has signed a multimillion pound purchase option with Japanese satellite remote sensing commercial services provider Japan Space Imaging Corporation (JSI), following the opening of Satellite Vu’s Early Access Option Programme (EAOP), the company said. Trough the EAOP customers and partners gain access to Satellite Vu’s imagery, products, and services. They ...

The UK’s Geospatial Commission has launched a series of projects to explore key land use pressures, such as energy, housing and decarbonisation, and how innovative data analysis can support better decisions about land use change. Through the National Land Data Programme, the Geospatial Commission is convening regional pilots, national roundtables and expert workshops to bring ...

The Department of Disaster Management (DDM) will be carrying out a study of soils throughout the Territory as part of a Darwin Plus-funded research project launched this week. The study will be conducted in partnership with other government agencies, the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, and the University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom). The study will ...

TGN is a thesaurus. TGN is not a geographic information system (GIS), although it may be linked to existing major, general-purpose, geographic databases and maps. While most records in TGN include coordinates, these coordinates are approximate and are intended for reference (“finding purposes”) only (as is true of coordinates in most atlases and other resources, ...

New autism diagnoses tend to be clustered within specific NHS service regions, suggesting that where an individual lives may influence whether they receive an autism diagnosis and access to special education needs support. The latest findings, from researchers from the University of Cambridge in collaboration with researchers from the London School of Economics and Political ...

A map showing the environmental pressures from global food production has been developed by researchers, to identify ways of creating more sustainable and just food systems. The analysis looked at greenhouse gas emissions, water use, habitat disturbance and pollution, such as effluent or fertiliser run off from farms. The study, by the University of Leeds ...

An online map showing the locations of ‘warm spaces’ in Leeds to help people with the cost of living crisis has gone live today. The map, which can be seen at Warm Spaces Public app – embed (arcgis.com), shows the venues across the city which people are able to visit to keep warm to reduce ...

From the inspiration for Dr Who’s TARDIS to the filming location for CBBC’s Balamory, the people, places and buildings that have defined the BBC have been highlighted as part of a new digital map available this autumn. Today (13 October), Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland (HES), Historic Environment Division, Northern Ireland Communities Department and Cadw, ...

Dubai Municipality has signed two contracts with Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, to benefit from global geospatial expertise and support teams working in monitoring activities, buildings permits, survey services, executive planning, and geographic information systems. Paul French, Ordnance Survey chief commercial officer, said: “Dubai Municipality is at an exciting time in expanding its ...

McDonald’s is the nation’s favourite fast food restaurant, enjoyed by Brits young and old with Big Macs, Quarter Pounders and of course, the chicken nuggets, firm favourites when in the mood for a quick bite. But there is one thing that gripes us all, the regularity of broken ice cream machines. There is nothing worse ...

The Geospatial Commission publishes a project update on the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) and invites participation from all asset owners in Northern Ireland and England. This publication marks the first anniversary of the build phase and provides a summary of progress over the past year, as well as the economic case and a timeline ...

The British Geological Survey (BGS) has released a new fine-scale digital map featuring the seabed geology of offshore Anglesey. The island (in Welsh known as Ynys Môn) follows the Bristol Channel as the second in a series of new fine-scale maps that contain combined bedrock, sediment, bedrock structure and seabed geomorphology data. The maps are ...

ESA has awarded an €800,000 NAVISP (Navigation, Innovation and Support Program) contract to Celestia UK for the development of an innovative PNT solution, based on LEO satellite constellations for 5G networks and applications. The project will use LEO satellite signals to provide a resilient position and time reference for 5G networks, boosting the reliability and ...

Peter Manshausen at the University of Oxford and his colleagues have found that clouds that had appeared unaffected are in fact affected by the aerosols. The researchers mapped the paths of two million ships in the Atlantic Ocean over a six-year period and used a global database for the winds on the trade routes the ...

The UK membership organisation for companies and individuals working in the geospatial sector, the Association for Geographic Information, has announced an extension to the early bird booking discount for its flagship event GeoCom. The Association has also published the final agenda for its first in person annual conference in three years, with headline speakers from ...

The service is part of a national pilot by the Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing (DLUCH) to improve submitting and processing planning applications. The new service works by doing a high-level check of the project against legislation and Geographic Information System (GIS) data to see if the project may fall under ‘permitted development’. ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Technical Committee 211 (TC 211) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) invite software developers to the 2022 Joint OGC & ISO/TC 211 Code Sprint aka The Metadata Code Sprint. Registration closes September 11. The hybrid online and in-person Sprint will focus on OGC API – Records, STAC, ISO ...

Working in collaboration with and partly funded by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), a team of quantum physicists have devised new approaches that not only reduce the size of their clock, but also make it robust enough to be transported out of the laboratory and employed in the ‘real world’. Quantum—or atomic—clocks ...

Airbus and Northrop Grumman have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering their intention to address the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) SKYNET Enduring Capability (SKEC) military satellite communications requirements as an integrated joint team.

Water is life, but for all its importance, humanity has a surprisingly limited view of Earth’s freshwater bodies. Researchers have reliable water level measurements for only a few thousand lakes around the world, and little to no data on some of the planet’s important river systems. The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite ...

British startup Opteran, a spin–out of the University of Sheffield, has a completely different view of neuromorphic engineering compared to most of the industry. The company has reverse–engineered insect brains to derive new algorithms for collision avoidance and navigation that can be used in robotics. Opteran calls its new approach to AI “natural intelligence,” taking ...