Every other summer, thousands of sailors converge on the south coast of England to compete in one of the marquee events on the yacht racing calendar.

This year’s Fastnet Race took place over seven days from July 22 to July 28. It was the 50th edition of the biennial race, and featured the largest fleet ever assembled, with 430 yachts taking part.

The 625-nautical mile course begins near Cowes on the Isle of Wight, rounds Fastnet Rock off the Irish coast, and finishes in the Normandy port of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.

In this blog, we discuss the likely scenarios based on proprietary datasets created by Ursa Space that are derived from radar satellite imagery. 

Oil market 

A major shipping route in the oil market connects Middle East producers with European consumers via the Suez Canal.

an Ursa Space, March Madness-inspired event to spotlight the array of real world problems that can be solved using synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

The winner was… Illegal Fishing Monitoring. This use case dominated a tough field, beating out Sanctions Enforcement, Deforestation and Flood Mapping. Check out the bracket below.