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UK Space Agency announces funding for EO technology

Posted on: 2 August, 2023 Last updated on: 13 June, 2024 Written by: jps48 Categorized in: News

The £15 million UK Space Agency funding announced will support the research and experimental development of space-based instruments, aimed at supporting a range of environmental services, which could include meteorology, climate monitoring, environmental management, agriculture and urban planning, and improving scientific knowledge.

Bug hotel at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Net-Zero Week – Biodiversity within NCEO

Posted on: 2 July, 2023 Last updated on: 13 June, 2024 Written by: jps48 Categorized in: News

During Net Zero Week we want to explore the role biodiversity has to play in helping us to reach a global net-zero, and the work NCEO and our partner institutions are doing to improve biodiversity across our centre.

UK’s AI ‘twin’ will use big data to show the way to net zero

Posted on: 14 June, 2023 Last updated on: 13 June, 2024 Written by: jps48 Categorized in: News

Professor Ashiq Anjum from the University of Leicester is leading the artificial intelligence research at the Space Park Leicester and will lead the digital twin investigations in the new project.

NCEO joins Sustainable Labs programme – LEAF

Posted on: 1 June, 2023 Last updated on: 27 June, 2024 Written by: jps48 Categorized in: News

The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) have joined the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) for laboratory accreditation at its headquarters site, Space Park Leicester.

An inevitable climate breach?

Posted on: 25 May, 2023 Last updated on: 13 June, 2024 Written by: jps48 Categorized in: News

Latest inventory of Earth’s heating rate using state of the art Earth Observation measurements,

Satellite data reveals source of increased global atmospheric methane between 2020-2021

Posted on: 27 April, 2023 Last updated on: 27 June, 2024 Written by: jps48 Categorized in: News

On Monday, the 22nd of April, the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and Space Park Leicester proudly commemorated their inaugural Earth Day celebration.

Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

Posted on: 21 March, 2023 Last updated on: 13 June, 2024 Written by: jps48 Categorized in: News

Rainfall variability in Eastern Africa is associated with considerable social and environmental impacts, including threats to water, energy and food security.

Britain is heating up – how heat mapping can help the UK adapt to climate change

Posted on: 30 November, 2022 Last updated on: 16 January, 2025 Written by: fp86 Categorized in: News

The UK has been experiencing above-average seasonal temperatures over the last few years. In July 2022, the UK saw the air temperature at London’s Heathrow Airport soar to 40.2°C. You may be surprised to learn that the land surface temperature was even hotter?

220 000 tonnes of methane likely released from Nord Stream gas leak

Posted on: 15 November, 2022 Last updated on: 7 November, 2024 Written by: Tara Thompson Categorized in: News

An international collaboration led by the National Centre for Earth Observation scientists at the University of Leeds discovered a substantial methane leak from a faulty gas pipe near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire while using GHGSAT’s high-resolution data in March 2023.

Heathrow breaks UK’s Land Surface Temperature record

Posted on: 20 January, 2022 Last updated on: 16 January, 2025 Written by: fp86 Categorized in: News

London’s Heathrow Airport was amongst the record-breaking hottest places in the UK with an air temperature of 40.2°C. However, air temperature was not the only record to be broken at Heathrow, as the very latest official UK satellite data for Land Surface Temperature (LST) showed UK surfaces reached 48°C for the first time.