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How does geospatial imagery inform strategic decision making?
Geospatial imagery provides valuable information about Earth’s surface which can provide useful insight. Two common platforms for sensors are satellites and aircraft, each of which…
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What is it like being an Earth observation analyst?
Earth observation is an area of the space sector with many applications. Access to regularly updated basic imagery is very useful – how many times…
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How big a deal is space junk and what should we do about it?
Every year, space junk seems to be attracting more attention. As the number of satellites orbiting Earth grows, the chances increase of some of them…
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How does the business of selling Earth observation data work?
There is an ever-increasing number of satellites in orbit around Earth. There are more firms every day that are using satellite-provided Earth observation imagery to…
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What role does New Zealand play in the global space sector?
Space business tends to be concentrated in a few key markets. But technological improvements are leading to geographic diversification. Other countries are starting to play…
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What is happening in the space sector in Taiwan?
It used to be that space missions were carried out by large governments. During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow led humanity’s engagement with space.…
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How should we sustainably govern low Earth orbit?
There is much buzz in the news nowadays about sustainability in low Earth orbit (LEO). With the rise of megaconstellations, fears of space debris and…
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How should Australia respond to space militarization?
There is growing concern about the militarization of space. Oftentimes, discussions about this topic focus on the larger space powers – the United States, Russia,…
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How would ELROI let us know which satellites are which?
Many manmade objects are in orbit around Earth. How do we know which are which? The problem is, we don’t. Not always, anyway. Oftentimes, we…
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