Earth Observation Q4 2019 review

… @ESA_EO director @AschbacherJosef confirms that the #Copernicus Earth observation program got 400 million more than originally asked for! The story of success for the worlds best Earth observation system continues! Way to go! #Space19plus #UnitedSpaceInEurope #Sentinel #ESA pic.twitter.com/VTQFsAMXib

— Holger Voss (@SpaceHolgar) November 28, 2019

All 12 satellites contacted and looking good!
Continues our 100% successful first contact record & brings Planet to a total of over 400 satellites launched, & 25 successful launches! 🛰 🛰 🛰 🛰 🛰 🛰 🛰 🚀 🚀 🚀

— Will Marshall (@Will4Planet) November 27, 2019

A record 8 satellites in a calendar year, new countries declaring space ambitions, increasing valuation, growth in NewSpace, & a major step towards the operations of the African Space Agency. 2019 seems to be the best year so far for the industry. https://t.co/ajlpBc3hEw

— Space In Africa (@spaceinafrica1) December 23, 2019

#LandsatHeadline: #Landsat 8 currently in safe mode. Read more at https://t.co/nhh4t4uj6z pic.twitter.com/O3dFpEZOVf

— USGS Landsat Program (@USGSLandsat) December 20, 2019

#LandsatHeadline – A new @USGS report estimates that the economic benefits to society provided by the #Landsat archive was about $3.45 billion in 2017 compared to $2.19 billion in 2012. Read more at https://t.co/OXh91NF9Ro pic.twitter.com/mGh5Aq4ALe

— USGS Landsat Program (@USGSLandsat) November 4, 2019

Good news from #geoweek2019.
Japan will provide free and open access to the wide-swath observation data from the L-band Radar satellites, such as ALOS (PALSAR) and ALOS-2 (ScanSAR).https://t.co/J1LajyoFfh

— Emre Havazli (@jeodezist) November 9, 2019

Radiant Earth is proud to announce the launch of our new machine learning commons, Radiant ML Hub! This platform is an open repository intended to make geospatial training data accessible to scientists working on global development. Read our press release https://t.co/AdOSbLm3AC pic.twitter.com/NDJ5YqQCBJ

— Radiant Earth Foundation (@OurRadiantEarth) December 9, 2019

Landsat on the cloud is coming! Nathan Roberts @USGS_EROS talks why, when and how. #STAC and #COGS! #agu19 pic.twitter.com/0ZwtdeLDVx

— Matthew Hanson (@GeoSkeptic) December 10, 2019

.@CopernicusEU #Sentinel5P data revealed an explosion in a natural gas well in #Ohio in Feb 2018 released more than 50 000 tons of methane into the atmosphere, more than the majority of European nations' oil and gas industries do in a year. Read more👉 https://t.co/mYDwoWGIsb pic.twitter.com/46W79mm5aH

— ESA EarthObservation (@ESA_EO) December 17, 2019

NASA to buy more commercial Earth observation data @planetlabs @MDA_maxar and @SpireGlobal – https://t.co/zXGQoYLSFU https://t.co/tQlxPfjSoJ #satellites #EOdata

— SkyWatch (@SkyWatchApps) December 18, 2019

"Amazing 3D rendering with Aerialod – a tutorial"

Free #Aerialod software by @ephtracy – a few notes that might help you get up and running if you need more fun in your life (but seriously, this really is an amazing new tool)https://t.co/yqPhpeeAlO pic.twitter.com/Fw42uiTuZv

— Alasdair Rae (@undertheraedar) November 8, 2019

Added support for adding #EarthEngine feature layers to maps in @qgis, baby steps to make it a useful tool, desktop version of Earth Engine Code Editor 😛. Alpha version to be released in two weeks, probably during #AGU19. pic.twitter.com/6NQYBbJLVy

— Gennadii Donchyts (@gena_d) November 22, 2019

On behalf all of the #spacenet Partners, we are excited to announce the results & winners for #spacenet5!! Congrats to all of the winners and challenge participants! We will be open sourcing the top 5 models in the comings weeks! https://t.co/zpsJMZ8mks

— CosmiQ Works (@CosmiqWorks) November 26, 2019

I frequently find myself explaining the basics of why applying machine learning techniques to satellite imagery is exciting, and why *right now* is such a crucial moment in the field. So I wrote it up! https://t.co/2Jkf5KhmEf

— Joe Morrison (@mouthofmorrison) November 5, 2019

😍 🎉 Pretty proud to see the tools we are working on integrated to @OpenDroneMap. Awesome job by Piero Toffanin👏https://t.co/Zo6QpuFiON

— Vincent Sarago (@_VincentS_) December 5, 2019

Wohoo! QGIS Coruña is here!#qgis @qgises @qgis pic.twitter.com/D3kXY9PArs

— Fran Raga (@fran_raga) October 26, 2019

#qgis2web hits half a million downloads! To celebrate, Mapbox GL JS export and Leaflet attribute filters are now released in a new non-experimental version. Upgrade to 3.10.0, and report any problems at https://t.co/G9b6F7uvMb.

— Tom Chadwin (@tomchadwin) October 30, 2019

Huge news! MXD conversion support in our SLYR ArcGIS to #QGIS conversion tool is no longer beta, and is available out-of-the-box for ALL users! Read more at https://t.co/DM0TaYe4Vz , and learn how you can unlock seamless support for ESRI documents within QGIS at your workplace. pic.twitter.com/8ft45JyK2l

— North Road (@northroadgeo) November 6, 2019

Orfeo ToolBox 7 is out! 🛰️🌎🌍🌏https://t.co/GH55gDOPnQ #remotesensing #foss4g #osgeo

— Orfeo Toolbox (@orfeotoolbox) October 29, 2019

Descartes Labs snaps up $20M more for its AI-based geospatial imagery analytics platform https://t.co/vgxWiCYBv9 by @ingridlunden pic.twitter.com/il6d3A9Qoo

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 11, 2019

Capella is fully funded to complete its seven satellite constellation launch in 2020, with very significant backing from multi-billion-dollar funds DCVC (Data Collective) and Spark Capital. https://t.co/m1RWP0QAMh

— Capella Space (@capellaspace) December 16, 2019

Have *you* already listened to the @LadiesOfLandsat interview on the @EOSceneFrom podcast? They interviewed @MorganahCrowley (you can jump ahead to 11:39). Check it out *NOW!* 🧐https://t.co/CoJd5VxxoA pic.twitter.com/rorXjxS6eO

— 🇧🇿 Belize GEO 🛰️ (@BZgeo) October 25, 2019

Morgan Crowley (@morganahcrowley) breaks down how groups like @LadiesOfLandsat not only provide a community for female scientists to collaborate but to also lift each other up: https://t.co/uf5KB5R5yo

— Google Earth (@googleearth) November 22, 2019

Wrote a brief tutorial on creating Lego map style in QGIS.
If you have any idea how to improve workflow or map design, I will glad to hear 😀https://t.co/cDvNKzHojA#QGIS #map #cartography #gischat #creativecarto

— Andriy Yaremenko (@AndriyYaremenko) October 25, 2019

So I have two pieces of 🎇exciting news🎉to share about the #EarthEngineVirtualMeetup. (1) We now have a website! 👉🏽https://t.co/snHJnBXuVH (2) We're planning an #AsiaPacific🌏edition of the meetup in early January.

— Sabrina Szeto (@SabrinaSzeto) November 28, 2019

The edge of space and low Earth orbit to scale with a map. Stack of pennies on the right represents the Kármán line where space begins. It is 100 km high (62 mi). Left stack represents low Earth orbit, approximately 300 km (186 mi) of altitude [source: https://t.co/aRL5HuQmj3] pic.twitter.com/ZVP7OwsBbq

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 30, 2019