French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and other critical entities
A NASA-funded study of satellite data finds traffic-related N02 pollution spiked ~20% near ~150K large US warehouses, which have proliferated due to e-commerce
The data is in, and it shows a significant rise in air pollution where e-retailers build their warehouses …
How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires
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US officials say sanctioned countries are increasingly manipulating the GPS-based automatic identification systems, or AIS, of ships to evade international law
A technology enabling the transmission of fake locations to carry out murky or even illegal business operations … Tweets: @aliabunimah , @indianexpress , @amidaniel1 , @steve_e , @akurmanaev , @akurma...
Phoenix-based Mangata, which is building a satellite constellation for connectivity and edge computing for 2024, raises a $33M Series A led by Playground Global
Alan Boyle / GeekWire : Tweets: @b0yle Tweets: Alan Boyle / @b0yle : #MangataNetworks, a Phoenix-based startup with connections to Seattle area, raises $33 million for hybrid HEO/MEO satellite data n...
Microsoft unveils Azure Orbital, a cloud-based “ground station as a service” for satellite data processing, competing with AWS' Ground Station
Call it the Clash of the Cloud Titans: Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Orbital, a cloud-based satellite data processing platform …
How PlantVillage app uses AI to identify plant diseases and satellite data provided by the UN to monitor the growth of crops for small-scale farmers in Kenya
Matt Simon / Wired : Tweets: @rtb_cgiar , @rnfrstalliance , and @wired Tweets: RootsTubersBananas / @rtb_cgiar : PlantVillage App lets Kenya's farmers monitor cassava crops from the sky using satelli...
How satellite data startups like Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow track businesses, illegal mining, oil tankers, and more for clients like hedge funds and banks
add to this cameras and drones that will soon be everywhere and have an Orwellian nightmare. Especially if Facebook gets hold of this @nytimes : With 2,200 observation satellites going into orbit in t...
How satellite data providers, volunteers online and on the ground cooperated to deliver updated OpenStreetMap maps to rescuers in Nepal faster than ever before
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic : Tweets: @planetlabs Tweets: Planet Labs / @planetlabs : Incredible response: “In the past week volunteers have tripled the amount of mapping data in Nepal in #OpenStre...