November 11th, 2025
New Satellites Launching to Enhance Maritime Visibility 

Across the world’s oceans, including U.S. territorial waters, some vessels deliberately “go dark,” switching off AIS (cooperative beacon) to operate undetected. These actions can mask illegal fishing, pollution or non-compliant operations, posing risks to maritime safety, fair competition and environmental security.  With its constellation of 17 satellites, Unseenlabs detects radiofrequency (RF) emissions from ships’ onboard electronics, enabling

October 28th, 2025
First Image of Nitrogen Dioxide from Sentinel-4 

The new Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first images, highlighting concentrations of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone. Despite being preliminary, these images mark a major milestone in the ability to monitor air quality all the way from geostationary orbit, 36,000 kilometers above Earth.  This image depicts tropospheric nitrogen dioxide with clear pollution hotspots visible

October 12th, 2025
Satellites Reveal the Power of Ocean Swell 

Driven by wind, waves are at their most powerful during storms, yet the greatest threat to coastlines often does not come from the storm itself, but from the long swells that carry wave energy far beyond the storm’s reach.  These long waves radiate across oceans, and their properties—such as wave period, or the time between

September 26th, 2025
HySpex Imagery: True Color and Combined with Other Data Sources 

On the left we see a high-resolution HySpex image of the Puch test area in true colors, taken on May 12, 2025. In the center is the same image with locations of drone acquisition points (orange). And on the right, land cover derived from EnMAP satellite data. Pixel colors denote photosynthetically active (“live”) vegetation in