Maxar awarded $192m IDIQ contract
Maxar Technologies has announced that it was awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA), worth up to $192 million over five years.
Under the Foreign Commercial Imagery Program contract, it will provide multiple U.S. allies and partners with commercial imagery services consisting of high-resolution …

Advanced LiDAR by Bowman geospatial division
Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. USA announced that Cuhaci Peterson has teamed with Bowman’s geospatial division to deliver time and cost savings for their clients by utilizing Bowman’s minimally invasive ceiling scanning techniques. Prior to developing this technique, ground level 3-D scanning in an …

Creating new synergy for satellite data
Synspective and Topcon Positioning Asia (TPA), have recently announced a partnership to deliver satellite data solution services. Synspective, a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data and solutions startup, and Topcon, a company for surveying and construction, will collaborate to yield new opportunities and innovate in the satellite data space in …

NASA extends contract with Planet
Planet Labs PBC has announced NASA has exercised an option to extend its contract with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program through September 2023. Planet has been providing data to NASA scientists and federally funded researchers under this program since …

China launches new remote sensing satellite
China sent a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on September 3.
The satellite, Yaogan-33 02, was launched by a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 7:44 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully. https://english.news.cn
Planet Partners with Taylor Geospatial …

Government of Ukraine to have access to ICEYE SAR satellite constellation
ICEYE has signed a contract with the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, which will provide the Government of Ukraine with its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imaging capabilities. In addition, it will provide access to its constellation of …

Enhancing Living Atlas of the world
Maxar Technologies has announced that Esri, will enhance the World Imagery layer with higher resolution Maxar Vivid basemaps in the Living Atlas.
Esri will use Maxar’s Vivid basemaps to upgrade nearly half of the global landmass in Living Atlas from 1.2 m resolution to …

In this paper, we present, to our knowledge, the first validation of Lidar-derived AGB estimates of tropical trees using reference values obtained entirely from direct measurement

Andrew Burt

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK

Matheus Boni Vicari

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK

Antonio C. L. da Costa

Instituto de Geosciências, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Ingrid …

The remote sensors play a significant role in field archaeology as they offer non-invasive means for collecting data related to the physical and chemical properties of objects from space based, aerial and terrestrial platforms.

Hina Pande

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO) Dehradun, India

Poonam Seth Tiwari

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO) Dehradun, India

Shefali …

New batch of RS satellites by China
China successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on June 23, 2022.
The satellites were launched as the second batch of the Yaogan-35 family at 10:22 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the planned …