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GRSG Python Course Review

GRSG Committee Member, Jennifer Scoular attended GRSG’s recent Python Training Course and shares her thoughts on what she learnt. “On 4th June, the GRSG held their first Geospatial Python for Beginners one-day course lead by Andrew Cutts (AC Geospatial) at the Geological Society in London. The course was limited to just 10 people to provide… Read more

A new GIS-based toolbox to boost prospectivity modelling

Authors: Melanie Brandmeier, Irving Gibran Cabrera Zamora, Vesa Nykänen, Maarit Middleton With the spread and development of human civilizations there is a growing demand for raw materials and therefore a need for successful mineral exploration. Over the past decades, many different knowledge and data-driven methods for GIS-based prospectivity modelling have been developed (Fig. 1). Particularly… Read more

The RADARSAT Constellation Mission

In the past month, there has been some exciting news for radar remote sensing. On June 12th a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) payload into orbit on behalf of the Canadian government. The RCM uses a trio of satellites to take daily scans of Canada’s land and waters, collecting invaluable… Read more

Review of the 29th GRSG Annual Conference and AGM

The 29th GRSG Annual Conference and AGM saw more than 100 attendees come together at the world-famous Geological Society on London’s Piccadilly. This multidisciplinary event brought together researchers, students and professionals from commercial companies, all with an interest in recent developments in geological remote sensing. Charlotte Bishop, the current chairman, warmly welcomed all the participants… Read more

GRSG – Social Events Corner

Continuing in the tradition of past years, the GRSG’s Annual Meeting’s social agenda was packed-full of interesting, unusual and entertaining events. This year’s events included: a visit to the RAF History museum, an icebreaker, a wine reception, conference dinner and finally, the afterglow. For all those in attendance, it was clear that these events encapsulated… Read more

The Chair’s Review of 2018

What a year 2018 proved itself to be! We started our ‘Moving Forwards in 2018’ campaign at the start of the year. This campaign was designed to achieve a set of key objectives for the year which were our most ambitious yet. 2018 was one of busiest years we have had at GRSG HQ. Our… Read more

KenGen and ITC kick-off collaborative programme on geothermal energy

KenGen, Kenya’s leading electric power generation company, and the Faculty ITC of the University of Twente have agreed on a three year collaboration in the field of geothermal energy. The agreement between the two parties was signed on Thursday 1 November in Nairobi, Kenya. For the period till 2022, the partners have set up a… Read more

ASTRALiTe’s 2-in-1 Topo-Bathy LiDAR Maps Underwater Pipeline in Coral Reef

ASTRALiTe has successfully demonstrated its 2-in-1 Topo-Bathy LiDAR flying on a DJI Matrice 600 Pro UAV during three separate missions over the course of a month in Colorado and Hawaii. “This is a significant achievement in miniaturization! Bathymetry from a medium-sized UAV platform is now just as easy to perform as topographic LiDAR surveys”, said,… Read more

CSU-CAS Provides Free Image Data of Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory

The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Ultilization, Chinese Academy of Science (CSU-CAS) is now providing medium resolution image data products of Tiangong-2 space laboratory to international academia users. One such product is Wide-band Imaging Spectrometer images. Wide-band Imaging Spectrometer is a medium resolution multispectral imager on Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory. With a pushbroom imaging mode,… Read more

Review of the Young Professionals Seminar

The first collaborative Young Professionals (YP) event of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB) and GRSG, which was convened at IHS Markit in London on Thursday 16th August 2018, focused on the relationship between Petroleum Geoscience and Remote Sensing (RS). Twenty-five people were in attendance on the evening, demonstrating a significant interest in… Read more