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:

How to Make the Most of International Calls from Mobile Phones

It used to be the case before mobile phones became so popular that international calls were made from landlines. Many telecommunication companies provided packages which meant that the cost of phoning abroad was attractive to their customers.

Since mobile phones have overtaken landlines in the telecommunication stakes, it is most likely that phoning internationally will only become more popular with mobile users. At the moment it can still be quite expensive to phone internationally from a mobile phone.

You will be able to find some smaller companies that offer cheap packages that allow you to make international calls from mobile phones. This usually involves purchasing a phone card with a unique code which allows you to call abroad at a set rate per minute.

These options are becoming increasingly popular with mobile phone users as they can save a lot of money when making international calls from mobile phones . Calling an international number without one of these money-saving packages at present can add a lot to your mobile phone bill.

The telecom companies that provide mobile phone services are beginning to realise that they need to offer more to their customers in terms of international calling. Some of the larger companies are beginning to offer reduced rates to mobile users enabling them to call abroad for next to nothing. A few also offer calling packages which lower the cost of calling internationally on a regular basis.

• 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.