Al Jazeera: US satellite firm Planet Labs announces blackout on war on Iran images. “Satellite imaging company Planet Labs has said it will indefinitely withhold visuals of Iran and the region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from United States President Donald Trump’s administration.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/al-jazeera-us-satellite-firm-planet-labs-announces-blackout-on-war-on-iran-images/BBC: Man uses Google Earth to win decking planning bid. “Gareth William Leek, from Pontypool, Torfaen, had been told a planning application was required for his decking years after it was built because it was about 50cm (20in) too far off the ground. Decking more than 30cm (12in) requires planning permission, but local authorities must take action within four years for most developments – and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/bbc-man-uses-google-earth-to-win-decking-planning-bid/
Hackaday: Satellite Imagery You Can Play With. “Satellite imagery is in the news right now, but not all satellite constellations are the preserve of governments. Satellogic operates a series of CubeSats with Earth imaging payloads, and best of all, they maintain an open dataset. [Mark Litwintschik] takes us through using it.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/11/hackaday-satellite-imagery-you-can-play-with/
Télécom Paris: “Denoising” radar satellite images with artificial intelligence. “Florence Tupin, a researcher at the Information Processing and Communications Laboratory (LTCI*), at Télécom Paris, is using deep learning to obtain images cleared from the fluctuations inherent in radar imagery. Focus on the researcher’s work on the occasion of the AI, Science and Society summit […]
North Carolina State University: Machine learning and satellite imagery could help protect the world’s most important crops. “A new North Carolina State University study combines satellite imagery with machine learning technology to help model rice crop productivity faster and more accurately. The tool could help decision-makers around the world better assess how and where to plant rice, […]
In an era where satellite photographs are commonplace, and even spotting tonnes of new archaeological sites in Egypt from space is years-old news, it is interesting to remember that there was once a time when seeing the planet from space was a novelty for people.
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