This month’s Kvarken Space Conversations we explored the Forestry Thematic Exploitation Platform, run by VTT, and it’s possibilities! Additionally, we presented results produced by their in-house developed Autochange tool. Take a look at the extended article over here, and we discuss in more detail how F-TEP is related to the Copernicus programme, how the algorithm…
This month’s Mega magazine we had an opportunity to co-operate with the leading experts in estimating the forestry variables based on both the information from space and from the ground observations. The experts, SLU in Sweden and Luke in Finland, are responsible for producing the nation wide datasets. Please, have a look at the extended…
In the latest Kvarken Space Conversations we explored if and how did the COVID-19 pandemic affect air quality. Well, as the magazine article itself shows, it did and it is also measurable from space. The very interesting thing is what physical phenomena are these kind of measurements based on and how does the process work?…
Wasa Future Festival was held in Wasa Innovation Center on 5.8. & 11.-14.8.2021. On the last day a Space Saturday segment was presented by the Kvarken Space Economy project. You can watch all the presentations from this Youtube-link. It starts in the beginning of the Space segment. What is Kvarken Space Center? Heidi Kuusniemi Director,…
Especially during the very nice warm weather we have had lately, the cool refreshing waters of the sea and the lakes start to get quite enticing! However, we are also closing on to the cyanobacteria season as well. In our extented web article of the latest conversation, we present how these can be estimated remotely…
Summer and hopefully the warmth of the summer days are coming soon! In this month’s megamagazine article we discussed heat and it’s relation to electro-magnetic radiation, how it is observable from space, how land surface temperatures can be estimated and what is urban heat island – why it occurs, what effects it has, and how…