Emily Dowdeswell, PhD Intern, Defra Chief Scientist's Office

Data, emerging technologies, uses and impact

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UCL's Professor Mark Maslin talks about analysing satellite images for forestry and agriculture purposes.

How can we use data, now and in the future? What are emerging technologies and what are their potential uses and impacts? A Defra-Royal Society panel debate asked these and other questions recently.

Why Defra has an Earth Observation Centre of Excellence

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Analysis ready Sentinel 2 – March 2016 example Cumbria

Earth Observation technologies help us to understand how our actions affect our environment and are key to delivering better services through smarter use of data.

A digital-data future at Ordnance Survey

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This 1790 OS-proto-map shows Major General William Roy's work with Greenwich and Paris Observatories to improve latitude and longitude records

On a recent visit to Ordnance Survey (OS) I learned about the diversity of geospatial data and innovation OS undertakes. OS was born in 1791 under the ambition of creating a superior map of Britain. While world-famous for their paper …