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Spectral Reflectance Newsletter #19
Weekly newsletter on Earth Observation
Level-2 News
Xplore announces first launch of remote-sensing smallsat [link]
“The company plans to launch its first Xcraft small satellite in the fourth quarter of 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare.”
Among its instruments there is a hyperspectral imager. Xplore said its hyperspectral imagery will be offered at 2-meter and 5-meter resolution.
Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies — 2023 Edition [link]
An annual list of the best geospatial companies in the world.
A list of some major Earth observation missions coming up this year [link]
TerraWatch Space compiled an non-exhaustive list of EO missions planned for launch later this year.
Satellite images of penguin poop lead scientists to ‘exciting discovery’ [link]
“After poring over images from the European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission and also the Maxar WorldView-3 satellite, scientists were recently able to confirm the existence of a new emperor penguin colony comprising around 500 birds.”
