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Newsletter No 85 - March 2025

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Cover image: Smoke plumes from the Californis wildfires as viewed from ESA's Sentinel-3 satellite
Credit: ESA
 

Topics in this issue include:

The European Space Agency's use of Artificial Intelligence to reveal clouds in three dimensions.
Meteoosat 12 carries a unique new instrument: the Geostationary Lightning Mapper. In his article—“Lightning - a Geostationary Perspective”—Richard Osborne details his progress in handling data from this new source.
Read about the new NISAR satellite from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization, due for launch later this year, which will use interferometry to map Earth's surface down to the centimetre level.
On the topic of Green Energy, you can learn about the recently commissioned Witnitz Photovoltaic Plant, now supplying over 650 MW of electric power to the grid in Germany.
Further topics relate to isostatic uplift in Finland, Greening in the Antarctic Peninsula, Iceberg A23a heading for South Georgia, Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier, and much more ...

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