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Earth Observation: the final frontier for understanding water?

Space technology and earth observation techniques are revolutionising the way we work at HR Wallingford. Barbara Hofmann highlights three areas where EO is developing fast.

Deep knowledge to support floating turbines

Mike Case, our lead for clean energy, examines how existing marine modelling knowhow can tackle technical challenges and help make these huge structures more affordable.

Model behaviour: why data is all important for new technologies

Marine demonstration zones are a fantastic resource for testing new marine energy devices, and are increasingly important to their success. But physical tests are only as good as the data they are based on, as Principal Engineer Juliette Parsi explains.

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Games people play

We’ve been using gamification to help people understand probabilistic forecasts. Quillon Harpham explains...

D-MOSS Country case study: Malaysia

Gina Tsarouchi explores the roll-out of our space-based dengue forecasting system, D-MOSS, in Malaysia.

Monitoring dams from space

Catastrophic dam failures can lead to death, destruction and long term pollution. Craig Goff explains how our new DAMSAT system can be an alternative to on-site inspections to keep people safe.

Flood-impact forecasting: the new frontier for EO

Accurately predicting the impact of floodwater is the new frontier of forecasting says Emma Brown, and it has Earth Observation data at its core.

Satellites vs mosquitoes

Gina Tsarouchi gives us a guide to our multi award-winning dengue forecasting D-MOSS system, which is already showing promising results in South East Asia.

Securing vital healthcare supplies during natural disasters

When natural disasters strike, how can we ensure that critical medication and life-saving treatments continue to reach those in need?

Mike Panzeri explores how space data could be harnessed to help the healthcare industry forecast, prepare and adapt to extreme weather.