Satellite Observing Systems

Satellite observing systems are unrivalled in expertise in all aspects of satellite remote sensing of the marine environment. Serving the public and private sector organisations by providing:

All You Need to Know About 0845 Numbers

The era of the landline telephone is clearly over, what with the infiltration of the mobile telephone into our lives. Mobile phones are everywhere nowadays and with over 4 billion of them worldwide, there is no sign of them becoming defunct anytime soon.

One of the areas where landline numbers are still prominent is in the world of business. There are hardly any companies that use mobile numbers as a means for customers to contact them. Local and small businesses tend to use regional numbers too, which re-iterates the fact to customers that they are using somewhere local (as well as costing less for the phone call).

When you call a business it may also have 0845 numbers instead of regional numbers. These 0845numbers used to be charged at the same rate as a local number and were known as Lo-call numbers. Nowadays they cost a little more than a local call but are not as much as phoning national or Premium Rate numbers.

You can find the numbers for businesses that have 0845 numbers very easily. One of the easiest ways is to use an online telecom directory. Simply type in the name and address of the company you are looking for and it will bring up the contact number, even if it is not a standard landline number.

Another way is to use a telephone book which you can get from your chosen telecommunications company. There s also the option of checking advertisements in local newspapers and magazines as businesses will list their contact numbers within the advertisements.

• Consultancy on the applications and exploitation of marine remote sensing,
• High quality marine statistics and climatology,
• Real-time sea-state monitoring from space delivered to ships at sea,
• Training programmes world-wide.

Some of the problem areas recently tackled by us including ongoing programmes, are:

• Calibration of radar altimeters on the ERS-1, ERS-2 and ENVISAT satellites,
• Statistical data on the occurrence of the highest wave at an offshore site or along a shipping route anywhere in the world,
• The prevalence of oil slicks in summer off a tourist beach in the mediterranean,
• Seasonal cycles in the vertical migration of nutrients along a coastline, and their dependence on marine weather patterns,
• A model of sea level changes around Britain's coastline over the last decade,
• The design of an easy-access coastal information system containing data derived from the satellite record,
• Accessibility of environmental information of coastal zones by NATO navies,
• Trends in global climate change revealed in the middle of the Atlantic by satellite observations repeated over a decade.

The latest venture is the design of a system of dedicated microsats that will deliver observations of storm location and intensity in 'real-time' to forecasting centres and ships at sea.

We have longer experience in the field of creating useful marine products from raw satellite data than any company in Europe, and this is reflected in the number of Training Workshops it has been asked to organise around the world.

• We are completely current with the programmes and aspirations of all the major space agencies and we are a leading promoter of 'real-time' constellations.
  
  
• No organisation, whose interest lies in the sea, can afford to remain ignorant of the increasingly relevant role of satellite surveillance to its operations.