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Space detectives

09 October 2014
Issue: 7625 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Lift off for the world’s first “space detective agency”!

The company, Air and Space Evidence, will provide an unprecedented service offering data from Earth Observation technologies to be used as evidence in legal and insurance cases. It will specialise in providing photographic, Earth observation and radar based imagery from satellites, unmanned aerial systems and aircraft as evidence in legal or insurance cases.

It is run by Ray Harris, Professor of Geography at University College London (UCL), Ray Purdy, visiting senior research fellow at the Faculty of Laws, UCL, and Peter Hjerp, Institute of European Environmental Policy associate.

Issue: 7625 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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