Categories: Science

Fight against climate change goes to space

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<strong>The United Kingdom government is taking help of satellites in space to solve some significant challenges, including climate change.<br />
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Eleven UK organisations were today awarded a share of just under £7 million of government funding to put into action the latest advances in space innovation.<br />
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The majority of the projects focus on climate change or environmental management, with others designed to secure telecommunication systems and protect digital infrastructure against cyber-attacks.<br />
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Projects include building a compact high-resolution infrared camera for satellites to measure thermal emissions from homes, schools and places of work, helping to improve energy efficiency.<br />
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The Open University in Milton Keynes will develop the mission concept for 'TreeView', a forestry and management tool that will support a nature-based solution to tackling climate change by monitoring the health of trees from space.<br />
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Other projects include placing high resolution thermal infrared space telescopes for globally monitoring the energy efficiency of buildings and also development of a new small satellite observation system using microwave sensors that will enhance ability to monitor the planet's increasing weather variability. <br />
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The funding comes from the UK Space Agency's National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) and has been announced on Tuesday as the UK hosts the COP 26 climate talks in Glasgow.<br />
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Space is playing an essential role in the fight against climate change, with satellites collecting half of the 56 types of data needed to measure and understand climate change.<br />
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"Whether it's monitoring greenhouse gas emissions or supporting increased tree planting, this new funding will take game-changing ideas from the UK space sector and our brilliant scientists, and turn them into reality," said UK's Science Minister George Freeman today.<br />
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IN Bureau

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