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SIMBAD: A diary
Hi! We are Carlota Alcubilla and Nerea Alonso, and we have been working for the last few months with an internship at Quasar on Vessel Detection using Multispectral Images from the Sentinel-2 Satellite mission, specifically focusing on the southwest region of Mallorca. During our internship, our main task was to […]
The SIMBAD web page is finally out !
It’s finally here !! We are happy to finally announce the release of the SIMBAD dedicated web pages !! It has been months of hard work, but we made it !! We will use these new pages to announce all our projects when it comes to products and applications being […]
Company Presentation 2023
We have updated our company presentation to include all the main projects we have been involved in up until now. We hope this gives you a flavour for the kind of endeavours we take on board as well as our capabilities as a company … enjoy !
Support to ESA Astronomy Missions: Euclid
Euclid is a scientific mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) dedicated to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. It was lunch this year, in July 2023, from Cape Canaveral in Florida (USA), on board a SpaceX Falcon 9. Its destination, the Lagrange point 2 at 1.5 […]
New Generation of Proposal Handling System (PHS)
for ESA Missions: Evolution of XMM-Newton Software
Last week we attended the Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XXXIII in Tucson (Arizona), were Jose Antonio Quero from Quasar presented his work on the development of the new generation of Proposal Handling System (PHS) for ESA missions. In the latest years, the evolution of the ESA XMM-Newton PHS […]
Open scientist position to work for the User Support Group of ESA’s X-ray mission XMM-Newton
Quasar is looking for a scientist to work for the XMM-Newton Users Support Group (USG). The scientists working in the XMM-Newton Users Support Group (USG) support the scientific users of the mission from proposal submission until they analyse their data for scientific interpretation. In general terms, the candidate will be […]
Air and Sea Traffic Risk Avoidance Model
February 2023 – To lower the risk of human casualties and infrastructural damage on terrestrial assets, Share My Space was selected by ESA to conceptualize an end-to-end software able to model space operations failures’ impact on air and sea traffic. Terrestrial risks presented by explosive or destructive failures from spacecrafts, […]
Industrial Doctorate: Development of forest wildfire risk maps in real time using remote sensing techniques for the Comunidad de Madrid
Forest fires have become a pressing issue in today’s world due to the growing frequency and severity of these disasters. In response to this challenge, Quasar has launched an industrial PhD project to develop a fire risk model. The project awarded by the Industrial Doctorate program of the Comunidad de […]
SIMBAD Product Presentations
We have been working hard over 2022 in expanding our Products and Capabilities in the area of Remote Sensing using satellite data. Not only have we released a full catalogue of Products and Applications, but we have created a set of presentations that we hope give you a good idea […]
Opportunity open for a Remote Sensing Data Scientist position in Quasar Science Resources to work for SIMBAD
Earth Observation (EO) applications and services are rapidly increasing. Sentinel missions are being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Copernicus Program, a European effort to monitor the Earth and its different habitats. Each Sentinel mission is based on a constellation of two satellites to fulfil revisit and […]
SIMBAD Satellite Imagery Products and Applications Catalogue 2022
We are proud to announce the release of our first Catalogue of Satellite Imagery Products and Applications. This is the result of a combined effort of many people over several years that shows our commitment and capabilities in the development of EO products and applications within SIMBAD. DOWNLOADSIMBAD CATALOGUE SIMBAD […]
Quasar is looking for a Software Engineer profile to work with the SIMBAD team
Earth Observation (EO) applications and services are rapidly increasing. Sentinel missions are being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Copernicus Program, a European effort to monitor the Earth and its different habitats. Each Sentinel mission is based on a constellation of two satellites to fulfil revisit and […]