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The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) is a distributed NERC centre of over 100 scientists from UK universities and research organisations.

NCEO provides the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council with national capability in Earth observation science – monitoring the health of our planet through satellite instruments and more – with world-class capability in interpreting these data.

Latest News

22 August 2019

BBC Radio 4 Science in Action

NCEO and King's College Prof Martin Wooster will be interviewed tonight on the BBC Radio 4 Science in Action programme a...

Latest Event

2 September 2019 - 5 September 2019

NCEO Annual Conference 02-05 September 2019

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Facilities and Instrumentation

Our instruments, data facilities and key tools for Earth Observation support the work of NERC scientists undertaking research anywhere worldwide....

Data & Tools

There are many tools that scientists use to study the Earth System, from computer algorithms for extracting and comparing Earth observation datas...

Skills

NCEO provides a range of tools and support for people who use Earth Observation data.

Innovation

NCEO links scientific expertise in environmental science with progress in the satellite technology sector, and supports the exploitation of satel...