{"id":80945,"date":"2017-04-21T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=585be352f199c13b720dd18a6e551027"},"modified":"2017-04-21T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:50:14","slug":"news-story-landmark-for-centre-for-earth-observation-instrumentation-ceoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80945","title":{"rendered":"News story: Landmark for Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The innovations have included instruments to measure air quality, monitor forests and climate change, and to increase our understanding of the polar regions, oceans and winds.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation\">CEOI<\/abbr> was set up in April 2007 and is funded by the UK Space Agency to support UK industry and universities to develop new technologies for space and to maintain its position as a world-leader in Earth Observation satellite technology.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation\">CEOI<\/abbr> has awarded \u00a314.2m in Earth Observation grants, putting Earth Observation at the heart of the Agency\u2019s long-term strategy to stimulate future innovation and growth for the UK.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt='\"\"' src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/63366\/ceoi_10_anniversary_celebration960.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Previous grant winners have achieved remarkable success by developing technology and positioning UK industry to win more than \u00a3150 million in external European contracts over the 10 year period, giving an excellent return on government investment.<\/p>\n<p>One grant, to the small satellite company Surrey Satellites Technologies Ltd (SSTL), has resulted in an instrument able to monitor the surface winds over the world\u2019s oceans, by measuring the very weak reflections from navigation satellites.  This instrument is now flying on <abbr title=\"Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System\">CYGNSS<\/abbr>, a constellation of 8 NASA satellites which are providing data about wind speeds at the centre of hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation\">CEOI<\/abbr> programme has also developed an active, well-informed and cohesive cooperating community, through a programme of workshops and conferences, resulting in over 185 scientific papers, technical reports and conference presentations.  Applications for 4 patents have resulted from <abbr title=\"The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation\">CEOI<\/abbr> projects.<\/p>\n<p>The tenth <abbr title=\"The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation\">CEOI<\/abbr> call issued earlier in 2017 resulted in a huge response, with teams being awarded a total of more than \u00a32.4 million in grants.  The projects in the new portfolio will include development of innovative technologies for the next generation of weather satellites, new developments of deployable and smart optics and advances in detectors for infra-red instruments. Airborne demonstration projects will further develop novel approaches to maritime surveillance and for monitoring greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation\">CEOI<\/abbr> is a consortium of world-class academia and industry experts, led by Airbus together with QinetiQ, STFC RAL Space and University of Leicester.  With funding from the UK Space Agency, the Centre provides grants won competitively by teams bidding for EO technology development funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEOI has reached its 10th anniversary, during which time it has funded more than 50 new technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}