The UK start-up Satellite Vu plans a network of spacecraft to map heat signatures across the planet.
The spacecraft will sense the ground at mid-wave infrared wavelengths . That's light beyond what most Earth observation satellites and our eyes can discern, but it's where the heat energy retained in structures will show up.
The applications are broad, and Satellite Vu is working with UK universities and running hackathons to devise new ways to exploit the information. At left is the view taken with a standard optical satellite. In the middle is the publicly available resolution up to now. At right is the simulated resolution that Satellite Vu's network should achieve. The heat coming up from the asphalt in the big car park and from local roads is immediately obvious.
Satellite Vu chief technology officer and co-founder, Tobias Reinicke, reckons one of the company's key applications will be in checking the efficiency of the giant solar farms now springing up around the UK.Can you tell what's in these storage tanks? Their heat signature provides clues
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