Imagery and Sensing

Planet’s satellite data informs sugarbeet crop monitoring under a new contract between Planet partner SatAgro and American Crystal Sugar Company. Sugarbeet is a root crop with a high concentration of...

Iceye now has the capability to offer 25 cm resolution for its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The new feature announced Wednesday is called “Dwell Precise” and it is based...

Planet has released its Forest Carbon Monitoring product, a new quarterly dataset for monitoring forest growth and change. The company said this data will help establish voluntary carbon markets and...

Maxar Intelligence opened a new London office this week as the headquarters for its international government business as it aims to increase its global presence.  The London office will also...

Amini has unveiled details of a key new product launch as it looks to bring the power of satellite tech to its customers, mainly farmers across Africa. It is launching...

PARIS — SpaceX’s Starshield now looms large over the Earth observation (EO) market as industry players look to grow revenues in a market that has not always lived up to...

NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to design and build the next-generation GeoXO Lightning Mapper (LMX) instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GeoXO satellites. The baseline contract...

BlackSky was awarded a seven-figure contract by HEO, an Australian startup specializing in non-Earth imaging (NEI) and analytics. BlackSky will provide imagery of objects in space for space domain awareness,...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected 10 companies to compete for task orders under a potential five-year, $290 million contract seeking commercial data and analytic services that monitor and assess...

Japanese startup Synspective has had a busy summer as the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company ramps up its constellation deployment. In June, Synspective announced a $44 million Series C round,...