Earth Imaging-New Space: Difference between revisions

From Green Policy
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 2: Line 2:


<big><big><big>''' 2023'''</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>''' 2023'''</big></big></big>
New Space Update:
Todd Master: ''What began with cubesat rideshare on other launchers has evolved into a low cost, quarterly-ish ride for about a million bucks for 100kg. There are entire businesses that are enabled by this that could not have existed 5 years ago.''
''This critical part of the space industry is enabled by SpaceX's focused efforts on reuse that make these types of launches economically viable. It's intriguing to consider how consequential a single company's contribution is to kick-starting a whole economic ecosystem.''





Revision as of 16:08, 10 November 2023


2023


New Space Update:

Todd Master: What began with cubesat rideshare on other launchers has evolved into a low cost, quarterly-ish ride for about a million bucks for 100kg. There are entire businesses that are enabled by this that could not have existed 5 years ago.

This critical part of the space industry is enabled by SpaceX's focused efforts on reuse that make these types of launches economically viable. It's intriguing to consider how consequential a single company's contribution is to kick-starting a whole economic ecosystem.


Timelapse.png


Time to Try the Timelapse app at Google Earth!

With a Tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to digital mapping, earth science visionaries
George E. Brown (Landsat) and Rebecca Moore (Google Earth Outreach)




๐ŸŒŽ


๐ŸŒŽ


Recent Satellite Imagery of Earth - via Azavea.png

Via Azavea 2023


Google Earth

Bing Maps Aerial

Mapbox Satellite Live

HERE WeGo - Map View / Satellite

Zoom Earth


~


Maxxar

Airbus

Hexagon Geospatial

Vexcel Imaging

EagleView

Nearmap

Planet | Planet API


๐ŸŒŽ


2022


'New Space' | Democratization of Space / Earth Imaging


Earth and Moon, photos from Orion spaceship, NASA, Nov 28 2022.jpg


๐ŸŒŽ


Time for Planet Citizen Action and a "CEOS", a Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

GreenPolicy360 welcomes the arrival of a global science mission, a "Global Stocktake", a collection of earth science data to be made available to the community of nations, to planet citizen activists and scientists, educational institutions, non-profits, NGOs, young and old to become tools for legal enforcement of national climate plans & pledges.


Global Stocktake, the first GST.jpg

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Stocktake,_the_first_GST.jpg


See GreenPolicy 2021 initiative for Legally Enforcing National Climate Plans

Visit GreenPolicy360's "Climate Plans Enforcement" (Project-in-Dev 2021-2022)

"Turning National Climate Pledges & Promises into Reality"


๐ŸŒŽ


Planet API


Space private sector Q2 2022 reports via @thesheetztweetz:


CNBC breaks down the most recent quarterly reports for Aerojet Rocketdyne, AST SpaceMobile, Astra, BlackSky, Iridium, Maxar, Momentus, Mynaric, Redwire, Rocket Lab, Satellogic, Spire Global, Telesat, Terran Orbital, ViaSat, Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit.

and Planet | https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/PL

Planet Labs PBC, formerly dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, is a provider of global, daily satellite imagery and geospatial solutions. The Company designs, builds, and operates the Earth observation fleet of imaging satellites, capturing, and compiling data from over three million images per day. The Companyโ€™s automated, cloud-native platform processes and manages data catalogue and extracts information. The Companyโ€™s platform includes imagery, insights, and machine learning that enables companies, governments, and communities around the world to make decisions about evolving world. Its platform and analytics products include Planet Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Planet Applications, Planet Basemaps, Planet Fusion, and Planet Analytics Feeds. The Company provides mission-critical data, advanced insights, and software solutions, across agriculture, forestry, intelligence, education and finance companies and government agencies, enabling users to derive satellite imagery.

$AJRD | $ASTS | $ASTR | $BKSY | $IRDM | $MAXR | $MNTS | $MYNA | $RDW

$RKLB | $SATL | $SPIR | $TSAT | $LLAP | $VSAT | $SPCE | $VORB


๐ŸŒŽ


Earth Science Research from Space: Methane emissions

Extremely large emitters โ€” releasing more than 25 tons per hour โ€” can be seen and tracked from near-earth orbit

Earth imaging data from a sensor aboard a European satellite, Sentinel 5


Using data from 2019 and 2020, (scientists) located about 1,200 of these ultra emitters, a large portion of them from Russia, Turkmenistan, the United States, the Middle East and Algeria.

Total emissions from these sites were estimated at about 9 million tons per year. In terms of its potential to warm the planet, that much methane is equivalent to about 275 million tons of carbon dioxide, which is the total carbon footprint of 40 million people, based on the global average per capita.


NASA has a new mission... against Methane.png


GreenPolicy360:

Methane hot spots we're coming to find you, identify you, act to stop you and enforce climate laws.

"Super emitters", we have a message for you, you can't hide....


Seen From Space: Huge Methane Leaks


Copernicus EU
Copernicus EU logo.jpg


Methane, We're Watching
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Copernicus_EU
* https://hsat.space/satellites-sentinel-5/


Detecting methane from space
"There has been quite a buzz around this unique advancement in space, and the valuable data it will provide on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that accounts for a quarter of the warming our planet is experiencing today. Curbing anthropogenic methane emissions is one of the most efficient and economical options available to slow the rate of warming over the next few decades, while efforts continue to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide."


ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท


New Space


Geosciences satellite fields b.jpg



ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท


Planet Labs Doves Fly

PlanetLabs & Bioneer Leonardo DiCaprio join up with #Earth Vision

Reefscape, Another New Way to View, Watch Over & Care for Our Common Home
The Commons


Reefscape.png


ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท


US environmental group wins millions to develop methane-monitoring satellite


The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is planning to be the first environmental group to send its own satellite into space


โ€œWe need good solid data so that we really can support global action on climate change, and weโ€™ve got to do it fast,โ€ says Steven Hamburg, the EDFโ€™s chief scientist.
The most detailed measurements currently available of atmospheric methane concentrations come from a sensor aboard the European Space Agencyโ€™s Sentinel-5P spacecraft, which launched in October 2017. The Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument provides global coverage at a resolution of nearly 50 square kilometres, but those measurements at this time do not capture the dispersed sources of emissions from oil and gas fields.
Commercial firms have developed high-resolution sensors that can be placed aboard 10-centimetre-sided CubeSats to measure emissions from individual wells or other facilities. Those data are proprietary, however, and the measurements currently cannot be scaled up to the level of an entire oil and gas field.
The Environmental Defense Fund team is designing MethaneSAT to provide more-precise measurements, at a resolution of 1 square kilometre, with global coverage at least once a week.




You can manage only what you can measure Dr David Crisp, OCO-2, June 2014 m.jpg


Earth Observing System - fleet of satellites.png


ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท


Earth Science from Space

New Ways to See & Take 'Earth Action'


Dove1 image.jpg


Planet Citizen Action

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists



 

Weather Watch

Eyes in the Sky: Atmospheric Science

Hurricanes - Typhoons via NASA data.png


Weather Satellites


Meteorological Satellites (List of Weather Satellites)


NOAA GOES Satellite Servers Data


Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Centers


NOAA Hurricane Research Division


Archive / Wayback Machine / InternationalWeatherArchive.org (with viewer)



๐ŸŒŽ


Ocean Science / Earth Science
Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg


Mapping Planet Citizen Action
Google Earth Outreach
Bioneer Rebecca Moore


Global Fishing Watch
Global Forest Watch



โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹


The Commons
Earth Science Research from Space
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
Planet Labs Doves Fly
Virtual Earth


โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹ โ—‹


Planet Labs is now just 'Planet'

Planet Announcement - June 12, 2016
* https://www.planet.com/pulse/meet-our-new-brand/


PlanetLabs homepage2016.png


Planet.com

An API for the Planet #PlanetLabs
Open Source Conference keynote API / An Open Sourced Discovery


"In Space for betterment of life on Earth''

"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."
Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet
Planet Labs, newly deployed Doves
Smartphones++ in Space!
Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth
Doves fly
Doves Flock
Doves Flock 1
Via the NYT ... Investing in Earth Imaging


Visit Planet's Earth Images Gallery

https://www.planet.com/gallery/


Dead Sea evaporation ponds.jpeg


โ—‹


Earth Imaging: Eyes in the Sky, Monitoring the Earth by Satellite


2014 / 2013

Private-sector Business Joins Government-funded Space Enterprise

NextGen #EarthScience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats


Nine 'New Space' startups to watch (our eyes are especially on "Planet Labs")


DigitalGlobe -- https://www.digitalglobe.com/] | [1] [2] [3]
  • RapidEye (acquired by Planet Labs in 2015)


PlanetLabs AZ Irrigation fields-s.jpg


New Space

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit


โ€œWith all these start-ups, the things youโ€™ll be able to do with satellite images will grow exponentially.โ€ - IEEE-May 2014

Moving from almost exclusively multi-billion dollar military/defense-communication satellite operations to nextgen 'small cap' startups and 'New Space' ventures and applications with earth systems monitoring, resources, sustainable business, and low-earth orbit.


Geosciences Brazil Terra satellite b.jpg


Geosciences agriculture-farms nasa.jpg


โ—‹


EarthPOV

Here's looking at us -- EarthPOV.com

What's Your Hashtag? #PlanetCitizen

PlanetCitizens.org


Democratization of Space


Satellite -comparisons.jpg

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Satellite_-comparisons.jpg