Remote sensing in the buget

Wednesday, 18 March, 2015

Yup, its true. Perhaps the biggest surprise in the budget was the announcement that Pitcairn would be the focus of the world’s largest marine reserve at 834,000 sq km, more than twice as big as the UK, with a view to preventing illegal fishing. This takes operational “Project Eyes” a ship tracking command centre in Harwell partnered by the Pew Charitable Trusts and UK Satellite Applications Catapult. Some nice detail on the virtual watchroom at Pew and the BBC. This uses what is now fairly standard synthetic aperture radar to track shipping, but can ingest multiple data sources and then analyse the data for suspicious activity. High resolution optical satellites can then be targeted if need be. Great stuff!!