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Arlington, Virginia, January 13, 2015 – BlackBridge is pleased to announce that its RapidEye imagery from the U.S. and Canadian Monitoring Program for Agriculture will be available through Agrian’s Technology Platform for Growers beginning in 2015.

BlackBridge’s Monitoring Programs for Agriculture are unique in the market, providing newly collected and archived five-meter RapidEye satellite imagery across all major North American agricultural areas and other regions of the world multiple times throughout the growing season.

The new partnership allows Agrian to provide agricultural retailers, crop consultants, growers, and agronomists with an enormous pool of high-resolution, multispectral RapidEye imagery, as well as soil data, crop and weather history, and crop performance data from Agrian.

“This partnership gives Agrian users access to a vast amount of current and historical satellite imagery over their agricultural areas,” commented Clint Graumann, director of North America, UK, and Ireland for BlackBridge. “Our Monitoring Programs for Agriculture integrate with the Agrian system to help take decision-making to a new level. This information will assist agronomists in producing greater yields at reduced costs, and we’re excited to be part of it. Agrian is a strong partner that will help strengthen our presence in the precision farming market.”

Jeff Dearborn, Agrian’s chief agronomic officer, said, “Imagery plays an important role in crop scouting, model validation, and adjustments of expectations. For many years BlackBridge imagery has been seen as the gold standard and we are excited about our partnership. Archive and in-season imagery will be incorporated into our new Agrian 6 offering. We feel so strongly about the quality and ease of use that Agrian will be helping other companies incorporate RapidEye data into their programs as well. We see significant growth in the use of imagery in agriculture and are proud to be representing BlackBridge in North America.”

About BlackBridge:
BlackBridge provides end-to-end solutions across the geospatial value chain. These include satellite operations, ground station services, and worldwide satellite imagery distribution through over 100 BlackBridge partners, combined with the creation of value-added products and geo-service solutions. www.blackbridge.com

About Agrian:
Founded in 2004, Agrian Inc. offers the most integrated solution to the growing demand for information addressing food safety, environmental concerns, traceability, sustainability, and locally and organically grown food. The company’s flagship products include Agrian Advisor and Documented Advisor; Agrian Grower and Documented Grower; Agrian Applicator and Documented Applicator; and Agrian Handler and Compliance Handler. For more information, visit www.agrian.com.

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Email: lauren.roerick@blackbridge.com

EARSC, in partnership with ESA, is updating the industry survey that we last conducted 2 years ago into the state and health of the EO services industry in Europe. The results of the previous survey can be found at http://earsc.org/library/ (studies). Our goal is to analyse the state of the EO Services Industry and to understand the issues that are important for its future.

A detailed understanding of the Earth Observation sector and the trends is essential to help stakeholders to plan their activities and to assess the effectiveness of their actions. Industry has a strong interest to ensure that accurate and up-to-date information is available. This will help inform ESA on the priorities for future EO value adding activities and pave the way for other stakeholder actions. It will provide critical data to help set budgets for EO research and development. It will enable EARSC to represent the industry in the most effective way.

A web-based questionnaire is being sent to all companies believed to be active in providing or using geo-information containing some satellite data. All European and Canadian EO service providers identified by the study team will receive an email notification from EARSC via Survey Monkey which will enable them to access the EO Survey.

The web-questionnaire will be followed by a limited number of phone interviews. Whilst the first is very focused on figures the second will be more subjective and opinion-oriented and we estimate will take 30 to 45 minutes. We would like as many companies as possible to complete both surveys and ask for your support in doing so.

Active participation by the EO service industry is critical to ensure that the survey can meet the objectives of furnishing a sufficiently comprehensive and accurate picture of the current industry status and health. These information will help also to identify priority issues, dominant opportunities, threats and other concerns facing the industry; therefore to have a clear picture about our sector!

Thank you very much for your active participation, EARSC secretariat.

(Dec 2014) European Space Imaging (EUSI) and TotalView successfully completed the provision of DigitalGlobe’s (DG) satellite imagery products for the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) 2014 project in Greece.

The project “Digital Services in the Single Application Renewed Land Parcel Identification System” project was announced by the Greek Payment and Control Agency for Guidance and Guarantee Community Aid (OPEKEPE) and required the provision of 39,600km2 of Greece. LPIS was designed as the main instrument for the implementation of the Common Agriculture Policy first pillar – direct payments to the farmer, i.e. to identify and quantify the land eligible for payments. Surprisingly, since its inception LPIS has also been used by members states as a data resource for use in relation to all sorts of land identification projects where up to date maps and information are required.

The project was awarded to Eratosthenes, Greece, one the of the largest consultancies in Greece in the fields of engineering, planning and GIS applications with the support of TotalView, Greece. TotalView provided Eratoshenes the required pre-sales support and documentation in order to successfully participate and eventually win in the tender procedure.

The project had unique characteristics and several restrictions that needed to be covered. The requested user license (by the terms of references of the aforementioned tender), was for the first time provided in Greece and allowed the internal use of WorldView-2 and GeoEye-1 imagery/ortho-photos and any type of their derivatives to all the public domain authorities and the full resolution viewing to the wide public. The images selection had to be inside a specific time-frame and the land use of the available areas to choose from had to be mostly agriculture. Finally, technical specifications like Off Nadir Angle and Cloud/Snow Coverage had to be under certain limits.

TotalView worked closely together with EUSI, DG, Eratoshenes and Opekepe to find the complying products, organize the digital delivery to help fast-track the schedule and finally deliver the physical media to end customer. The next steps is to deliver the rest of the country area as a continuation of the completed project.

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Working together, EOMAP GmbH & Co KG and MarineFIND, the specialist marine data and service division of FIND Maps, have formed a partnership to offer easy access to coastal high resolution and global bathymetry.

Collecting nearshore zone bathymetry data has, until recently, been an expensive undertaking. However, advances in the processing of satellite imagery means that low-cost, accurate, high resolution bathymetry to a depth of 20m is now available. The EOMAP/MarineFIND partnership has developed a new method for easily distributing this data for preprocessed areas and allows the production of cost-effective custom datasets.

Dr Thomas Heege, CEO of EOMAP, said: “We’ve worked with MarineFIND on several recent projects and the partnership has delivered excellent results for our clients. Building on the work we’ve already done together, we can now deliver bathymetric and other marine data to many more clients worldwide.”

Jon Coleman, Marine Business Manager of MarineFIND, said: “MarineFIND.co.uk is already one of the industry’s leading GIS portals for marine data. Our expert developers have improved delivery mechanisms – allowing us to serve cost-effective high quality marine GIS data directly to client desktops via WMS technology.

Nigel West, of ABPmer, said: “We’re very happy with the satellite derived bathymetry from EOMAP/MarineFIND. It has proved invaluable for the characterisation of shallow coastal areas in the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea. In our areas of interest, satellite imagery showed shallow bathymetric features that were either inaccessible to survey vessels or beyond the remit of the original surveys. The data we received from MarineFIND showed good validation with our echo-sounder collected data.”

EOMAP is the leading and largest commercial supplier of satellite-derived high resolution bathymetry and near-real-time water information products. Clients profit from rapid turnaround times on all scales through EOMAP partner network with DigitalGlobe and global space agencies.

EOMAP holds a unique shallow water bathymetry database that is now available through MarineFIND

Since 2006, EOMAP has provided marine services to clients in the O&G, coastal engineering and environmental sectors. Applications of their large scale techniques include mapping benthic habitats and bathymetry for the Environmental Agency of Abu Dhabi and mapping the whole of the Great Barrier Reef. Recently, EOMAP launched a WaterQuality App to provide easy access to data for Australia (http://eoapp-au.eomap.com/). The aim of their latest partnership with MarineFIND is to extend the provision of easy access to usable, complex data.

Dr Thomas Heege, CEO of EOMAP, said: “MarineFIND is a unique portal for marine data and we’re happy that it now offers our competitively priced Satellite Derived Service”.

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Harwell, December 16, 2014 Deimos Space UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elecnor Deimos created in 2013, is proud to announce that it has taken over the business of Magellium Ltd. which is now incorporated within Deimos Space UK Ltd.

The team is now employed by Deimos Space UK and has been joined in building R103 at Harwell by the existing Deimos UK team bringing the total number of Deimos UK staff to 15. This represents a high growth rate from the start of 2014 when the company employed just 2 people.

This new team provide additional capability in satellite image processing, remote sensing, systems integration and geographic information systems which will complement the existing Deimos team which is already delivering projects in the areas of flight systems, satellite ground segments, space situational awareness, satellite navigation and satellite applications.

Deimos will continue the current R&D activities of the incorporated company which focus on developing and operating new services based on satellite data and digital geography.

Three main markets are being explored:

  • Agriculture – including crop classification for land use monitoring, crop health monitoring for precision agriculture and crop disease prediction based on micro climate modelling
  • Education – exploiting satellite data in low cost accessible applications relevant to a wide range of curriculum areas
  • Web Maps for economic development -simple interactive web maps to encourage collaboration and innovation

Elecnor Deimos is the owner and operator of two remote sensing satellites; DEIMOS-1 which provides wide-area medium-resolution imagery in the visible and near IR bands and DEIMOS-2 which provides very-high-resolution (sub 1m pixel) imagery in the visible and near IR bands. DEIMOS-1 has been fully operational since 2009 and DEIMOS-2 declared initial operational capability at the start of November 2014 and will start its full operational service in January 2015.

The incorporation of the Magellium team into Deimos UK will strengthen the ability of the company to offer complete end-to-end solutions based on the use of data from the company’s satellites in end-user applications and services.

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Munich, 4 November 2014 – CloudEO, the world-leading content and software provider offering a unique geo-infrastructure, challenges participants to develop innovative cloud solutions that will revolutionize the way we do business and live our lives. Entrepreneurs, developers, innovative start-ups and researchers from all over the world are invited to submit their innovative solutions from 4 November 2014 to 15 April 2015 in the categories Smart Living, Mobility, Industry 4.0, Urban Infrastructure, and ICT Business Services. Contestants of the Cloud Innovation World Cup will be competing not only to become ‘Cloud Innovator of the Year’ but also to win the special prizes of partners CloudEO and Google. CloudEO is looking for the “GEO Innovator of the Year” integrating geospatial information to its cloud based service offered.

The “Google Cloud Innovator of the Year” will be the best solution built on Google’s cloud infrastructure. The Cloud Innovation World Cup will open for registration at the on 4th of November 2014 in San Francisco at Google Cloud Platform Live event.

All of the submitted solutions will be evaluated by an international committee of experts against a set of criteria including the degree of innovation, business potential and go-to-market approach. The international experts will identify three finalists for each category and choose the ‘Innovator of the Year’ of the Cloud Innovation World Cup as well as the “GEO Innovator of the Year”.

The Cloud Innovation World Cup enables developers worldwide to stand out with their innovative solutions. The unique innovation competition is a catalyst for cloud solutions in new arenas beyond ICT business solutions.

Participants of the Cloud Innovation World Cup not only get the chance to win exciting prizes worth more than $200,000, they will also benefit from direct access to a global network of potential partners and customers. Breakthrough cloud solutions can be submitted until 15th of April 2015.

For more information and free registration visit www.innovationworldcup/cloud
Innovation World Cup Series contact
Navispace AG
Serpil Döring
s.doering@navispace.de

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About ‘GEO Award’ by CloudEO
With the “GEO Award” CloudEO is seeking solutions that integrate geospatial information and provide additional benefit to the cloud based service offered.

Life is geospatial. Every activity is related to a geographical location and its surrounding. For application fields like agriculture, forestry, transportation and mobility, it is clear that the geo context is crucial to evaluate the current status and take the right course of action for each location. Cities and rural areas need information about critical points of interest like roads, bridges, buildings, and further information linked to it like satellite images about congestion or pollution. A lot of industries could use geo data to optimize their processes (e.g. smart metering). And even individuals use a lot of information related to their geographical position and many more use cases will arise in the future.

The Commission moved a step closer to the start of the operational stage of three of Copernicus’s earth observation services: Atmosphere Monitoring, Climate Change, and Marine Environment Monitoring.

Implementation of these services was today delegated to two expert organisations who will now manage the provision of the €435 million of EU funds available for this purpose to appropriate EU service providers, in order to obtain the additional components necessary to finalise the service provision in all three areas.

The Atmosphere Monitoring Service provides the capacity to continuously monitor the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere at global and regional scale and provides highly useful information for domains such as public health, safety and air traffic. The Marine Environment Monitoring Service provides information about the physical state and dynamics of the ocean and marine ecosystems which can be used for example in the context of fisheries, mariculture, tourism, and the overall management of coastal zones. As a result of the delegation agreement, the Atmosphere and Marine Environment monitoring services will both become operational in 2015.

The Climate Change service is designed to help policy makers respond to changes in the environment and society associated with human-induced climate change. Following the delegation agreement, it will first go through a running-in phase and is then expected to start its operational phase before the end of 2017.

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) – an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 34 countries – was entrusted with the implementation of the Copernicus Services for Atmosphere Monitoring and Climate Change. Mercator Océan, a non-profit organisation producing oceanography products, will deal with the implementation of the Marine Environment Monitoring Service.

To enable the implementation of the services over the period 2014 to 2020, ECMWF will have access to up to €291 million, while Mercator Ocean will receive up to €144 million. ECMWF and Mercator Océan will ensure the technical coordination and procure the majority of the underlying services related to the Atmosphere and Marine Environment Monitoring and Climate Change services, while the European Commission will retain the overall responsibility for all Copernicus’ services and will continue to define its strategic priorities and objectives.

Copernicus is the European system for observing and monitoring the Earth. It consists of a complex set of systems which collect data from multiple sources: earth observation satellites and in situ sensors such as ground stations, airborne and sea-borne sensors. It processes these data and provides users with reliable and up-to-date information through a set of services related to environmental and security issues.

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[Via Satellite 11-12-2014] MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) is optimistic it can capture new business in the small satellite market through its subsidiary Space Systems Loral (SSL).

In February 2014 Skybox Imaging partnered with SSL to build 13 small Earth imaging satellites known as “SkySats.” Skybox built the first two satellites, SkySat 1 and SkySat 2, on its own before turning over large scale manufacturing to SSL. As part of the agreement, SSL gained intellectual property rights that the company hopes to use to win more small satellite business.

SSL is headquartered in Silicon Valley where a number of entrepreneurial space companies are located — including Skybox. SSL has expressed a strong interest in working with satellite startups, having also partnered with NanoRacks for the U.S. Air Force’s Hosted Payloads Solutions (HoPS) program. Existing relationships and geographic proximity to startup companies operating in this sector have created an ideal situation for SSL. Speaking during MDA’s third quarter 2014 earnings call, MDA President and CEO Daniel Friedmann said this was a market that was never anticipated when acquiring SSL, but one that has great potential for new contracts.

“We are perfectly situated for the Skybox-like opportunities,” he said. “That’s a whole funnel that has developed in the last six to eight months.”

SSL’s Vice President of Business Development, David Lackner, confirmed the company is working hard to become the partner of choice for new entrants. MDA has been very intentional about increasing SSL’s satellite manufacturing capacity to maintain a competitive edge, though he did not disclose exactly how the company plans to do this. In the long run, Lackner said SSL’s goal is to be as diverse as possible.

“Our vision is to have a fully diversified product line that spans from LEO CubeSats to our traditional GEO birds. You may even see ‘atmospheric satellites’ in the mix,” he said. “We will be capable of rapidly responding to a variety of different needs through a streamlined product development process where customers can show up with a business plan, and we provide the entire enabling infrastructure to make it real. We are progressing in this direction.”

SSL’s growing product line for small satellites meshes knowhow and practices from building larger satellites, such as those that use the SSL 1300 bus, with knowledge gained from Skybox. Likewise, new small satellite technology is having an influence on other products. Lackner said the company is currently looking at a broad range of commercial and government applications; the majority for remote sensing projects, but SSL small satellites are not limited to this purpose, he said.

Friedmann identified the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) marketplace as a new focus for both communications and additional Earth observation projects. To date the company has already seen interest, though he said most are for single satellites, rather than full constellations.

“We have today U.S. government classified opportunities for [LEO small satellites]. We have about four or five international opportunities, traditional MDA-like customers, and we have several U.S. commercial opportunities,” said Friedmann. “We are pursuing all of those. Some of those use the Skybox technology, some use other technology but they are all LEO-based communications or Earth Observation or both in one satellite.”

Friedmann cautioned that it is too early to tell if any of these will turn into contracts. If Skybox, now owned by Google, were to order more satellites, he said MDA would have enough notice to prepare. For now, Lackner said SSL would continue to diversify its product line to gain business from those seeking satellites of all sizes.

“SSL is committed to pursuing small satellite contract awards as a critical path to growth and we are actively looking for this type of opportunity. We see this as key to our future strategy of expanding the product line and bringing a Silicon Valley mentality into the aerospace community,” he said.

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(Nov 2014) A ground-breaking agreement was signed in Brussels today between the European Commission and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). This agreement means that ECMWF will be managing the Copernicus Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services. The European Union’s flagship Copernicus programme ensures operational monitoring of the atmosphere, oceans, and continental surfaces, and will provide reliable, validated information services for a range of environmental and security applications. It comprises six services: Land Monitoring, Marine Monitoring, Atmosphere Monitoring, Emergency Management, Security and Climate Change that provide reliable and consistent environmental information.

The Copernicus Climate Change and the Atmosphere Monitoring Services represent an investment by the EU of €291 million over seven years and will draw together contributions from across Europe. ECMWF is an intergovernmental organisation that is both a research institute and an operational centre producing and delivering data on weather, climate and atmospheric composition to users across its member states.

ECMWF’s Director-General Alan Thorpe said:

“The Copernicus programme is a milestone for Earth observations and its many scientific and operational applications. The two services that ECMWF is managing are vital to provide to European policy-makers, businesses and society at large the highest quality environmental information. ECMWF will build upon its expertise in these fields and its extensive scientific and technical partnerships across Europe and beyond to lead this ambitious and extremely timely initiative. There is a critical need for science-based and user-driven services to be made available to policy-makers and citizens alike, and the EU’s investment in the Copernicus Services will deliver just that.”

The Atmosphere Monitoring Service will combine state-of-the-art numerical models of the atmosphere, such as those used for the daily weather forecasts, with satellite and in-situ observations to provide daily forecasts of the composition of the air around the globe with a particular focus on Europe. This combination of millions of daily observations and the predictive power of numerical models will drive the reliability of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. It will deliver up-to-date information in a number of areas of high societal relevance including air quality, climate forcing, ozone layer and UV radiation, solar radiation and solar energy resources, emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.

The Climate Change Service will deliver substantial economic value to Europe by providing authoritative climate information for the protection of citizens from climate related hazards such as high-impact weather events, improving planning of mitigation and adaptation practices for key human and societal activities, and promoting development of new services for the benefit of society. The Service will build upon and complement capabilities existing at national level and it will become a major contribution from the European Union to the WMO’s Global Framework for Climate Services. It will provide comprehensive climate information covering the atmosphere, land, ocean, sea-ice and carbon, for timescales spanning decades to centuries. It will maximise the value of past, current and future Earth observations (from in-situ and satellite observing systems) by using state-of-the-art modelling, supercomputing and networking capabilities. This will produce a consistent, comprehensive and credible description of the past, current and future climate aimed at supporting adaptation and mitigation policies.

Speaking at the joint signing session where three Copernicus Services were being signed -Mercator, the French centre for ocean analysis and forecasting taking on Marine Monitoring, and ECMWF for Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring, Daniel Calleja, Director General, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission said:

“The signature of these delegation agreements represents another major milestone for the Copernicus programme towards full operational status. The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts and Mercator Océan are the best possible partners for the Commission to implement the Copernicus services for monitoring the Atmosphere, Climate Change and the Marine Environment. Together we will develop services which will both support policy-making and stimulate the economy to the benefit of European citizens”.

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Notes to editors

Copernicus
Copernicus, the EU’s Earth Observation Programme, ensures the regular observation and monitoring of Earth sub-systems, namely the atmosphere, oceans, and land surfaces. Through a combination of state-of-the-art satellites, contributing missions and in-situ data, Copernicus provides timely, reliable, and validated information in support of a broad range of environmental, climate and security policies and applications.
Copernicus will support its users – public authorities, the global scientific community, the private sector and citizens – in their vital tasks of monitoring our environment and security, by providing Earth Observation data and information, as well as added value services. This programme will enable considerable progress in improving maritime security, monitoring climate change, and providing support in emergency and crisis situations.
Copernicus will also help Europe’s enterprises creating new jobs and business opportunities, through added-value services for environmental data exploitation, as well as supporting the space industry itself. Indirectly, a variety of other economic sectors will benefit from the advantages of timely, accurate and reliable Earth observation data, such as transport, oil and gas, insurance and agriculture.
Independent studies show that Copernicus could generate a financial benefit of some EUR 30 billion to Europe’s total GDP and create around 50,000 jobs in Europe by 2030. Moreover, the free, full and open dissemination of Copernicus data and information will help citizens, businesses, researchers and policy makers to integrate an environmental dimension into their activities.

ECMWF
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 34 countries.
ECMWF is both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service producing and disseminating numerical weather predictions and other data to our Member and Co-operating States. The Centre also offers a catalogue of forecast data that can be purchased by businesses worldwide and other commercial customers. The supercomputer facility (and associated data archive) at ECMWF is one of the largest of its type in Europe.
ECMWF was established in 1975 as a major initiative in European scientific and technical co-operation in meteorology, based on the concepts of a high-performance computing facility, a scientific and technical workforce, the production of medium-range weather forecasts, and related research and development, notably in the fields of climate monitoring and atmospheric composition.
ECMWF is based in Reading UK.
More information available at:

http://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/what-we-do/copernicus/copernicus-climate-change-service
http://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/what-we-do/copernicus/copernicus-atmosphere-monitoring-service

For any further information, please email pressoffice@ecmwf.int
(tel. +44 118 949 9000)

Airbus Defence and Space has signed a partnership agreement with TerraNIS, a geo-information services company working in the fields of agriculture, environment and land management, and ARTAL Technologies, a company specialising in software development. This agreement aims to boost the use of services based on satellite imagery by private and public players, both in France and internationally.

The new partnership will further intensify the deployment of geo-information services through robust processing channels and an expanded customer portfolio, ranging from SMEs and local authorities to national institutional entities. All of these services will benefit from the advantages offered by the fleet of satellites operated by Airbus Defence and Space, which is the market’s most extensive in terms of resolution, reactivity and availability: radar satellites with TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X and soon PAZ, optical satellites with SPOT 6 and SPOT 7, DMC-2, DEIMOS-1, plus the constellation of very high-resolution Pléiades 1A and 1B satellites.

Bernhard Brenner, Head of Geo-Intelligence at Airbus Defence and Space, said: “We are very happy with this collaboration, which will enable a large number of private and public players to access the best of our space technology, thanks to tailor-made services developed to precisely address their needs.” For more than 30 years, the company has been providing geo-information services using satellite imagery, across a broad market spectrum comprising mapping and land management, the environment and agriculture, oil and gas exploration and defence and security.

Marc Tondriaux, CEO of TerraNIS, said: “Thanks to the ‘Eugenius’ (European Group of Enterprises for a Network of Information Using Space) initiative that we have just launched and are coordinating, we will be setting up a network of European SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) that, each in their own region, will be providing these cutting-edge services, using the same technical platform and sharing a common catalogue of products and services.”

TerraNIS specialises in the development and marketing of geo-information services in the fields of agriculture, environment and land management, and also provides consulting, support and expertise for users of Earth observation-based technologies. For several years now, TerraNIS has been offering worldwide operation and distribution of the Pixagri and œnoview precision agriculture and wine-growing services developed by Airbus Defence and Space, in partnership with ICV (Institut Coopératif du Vin) for wine-growers.

ARTAL Technologies is an IT consulting and services company that has real expertise in the architecture of software infrastructures for industrial fields such as aeronautics, space and defence. “Thanks to this technical expertise, we provide industrialisation and lifetime maintenance for the production tools developed by Airbus Defence and Space and TerraNIS for the benefit of their customers,” said Pierre Duverneuil, CEO of ARTAL Technologies. The activities of ARTAL Technologies involve around one hundred staff, with offices in France and Canada.