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Call for papers for ISU’S 17th Annual International Symposium, Strasbourg.Tues 5 – Thurs 7 March 2013

During each academic year, the International Space University (ISU) organizes a three-day symposium as an interdisciplinary, international forum to help both the users and the providers of space-related systems to move forward from the discussion of problems to the formulation of innovative solutions. As an independent organization, ISU has developed a winning formula for a “different kind of symposium”:

  • Addressing all aspects of the subject – policy, business, legal, scientific, technical, etc.
  • Creating ample time for discussion
  • Fostering constructive dialogue among different sectors of the space community, or between different communities, that do not often interact in more specialized symposia.

At each of the past several events we have attracted close to 200 participants from agencies, industry and academia in around 30 different countries.
 
ISU’s next annual symposium will address ‘Tele-reach’ where we use this term to refer to technologies and applications which allow remote presence, participation, interaction or control. The emphasis here will be placed on exploring the role that space can play in broadening and sustaining the ‘reach’ of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems to benefit humankind in areas such as education, healthcare and environmental management. Looking beyond the socio-economic benefits here on Earth we will widen the scope to include fields such as tele-presence and tele-operation of remote equipment both on Earth and in space. 

The program will include invited contributions from leading experts in the field plus presentations and posters selected on the basis of abstracts submitted in response to the attached Call for Papers (see www.isunet.edu/symposium by the deadline date of 26th October 2012.
 
More information
CfP-Symposium17.pdf

EARSC is a non-profit-making organisation created in 1989 with the mission to foster the development of European Geo-Information Service Industry. Our main objective is to stimulate a sustainable market for geo-information services using EO data. Today, EARSC has 67 members in more than 20 countries, and is a recognized association both in Europe and worldwide.

EARSC represents the European providers of geo-information services creating a network between industry, decision-makers and users. We consider that the market is at a crucial stage of development as Earth observation becomes more frequently used by society and adds positive value to our daily lives. Nevertheless, there are many issues, opportunities and threats facing industrial actors and, through a small secretariat, EARSC informs and involves its members though its website and newsletters, through the provision of web-tools, as well as organizing events.

Members tell us that they appreciate the opportunity to network with other similar companies and that this helps them develop new business opportunities as well as exchanging on best practices. They also like the regular flow of information as well as the knowledge that EARSC is able to influence EU and ESA policy when it is important for the sector.

The acceptance of new members has to be approved at the Board of Directors. The documents needed are:
1) signed pdf letter quoting an agreement with EARSC status, company interest in the Association, and a brief description of your company activities and
2) common EARSC Template (please request to secretariat_at_earsc.org)

More information on EARSC including how to join could be found at our website (www.earsc.org). Here you can subscribe to eomag if you do not already receive it and learn more about what EARSC is doing.

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. EARSC will shortly be starting to conduct a full survey of the industry to address amongst other matters; which are the key sectors, where are companies located, how many companies there are, what is their ownership structure, and what are their annual revenues? We are firstly trying to identify as many companies as possible in Europe which are involved in providing EO geo-information services.

We are therefore very pleased to have the support of ESA to prepare a current view of the state and health of the industry. In the next few months, and up to the end of the year, EARSC secretariat will be contacting companies to gather information about basic business activities, revenues, employees etc which will bring our understanding of the sector up-to- date. Companies will receive an on-line survey (electronic questionnaire) and a selection by telephone to interview and establish industry facts and figures that can be assessed on an annual basis to provide information on the industry trends. We strongly encourage you to participate. We aim to gather as full a picture as could be possible.

The objectives of the study are to gather analysed data to support future decision making related to the EO services sector. Specifically, we aim to: – Characterise the business of the EO services industries in Europe and Canada – Understand the way in which the industry sector has evolved over the last 5 years – Identify the key issues that the industry is facing today and over the next few years. – Draw conclusions on measures that can be taken to support the development of the sector.

A market place between Earth Observation industry and users

The Earth Observation value added Industry is quickly evolving. It has a pool of resources and services which must be organized, catalogued and presented in a unified tool. eopages.eu has been designed for this purpose. EOpages is a brokerage platform to help potential customers find suppliers whilst service providers will be able to promote their products.

EOpages also included a section on success stories and a photo gallery for you to illustrate possible services to different market sectors; agriculture, forestry, oil & gas, infrastructure, environment, emergency, transport, urban planning, etc. The success stories demonstrate that service companies have the resources, capabilities, knowledge and ability to address and contribute to the goals of different communities.

A clear and common description of EO products and services will help suppliers and customers arrive at a common understanding of what can be offered

By proposing a common language, the taxonomy should also provide a translation between the world of EO services and the world(s) of their customers.

The aim is to present and explain the rationale for the EO taxonomy that is proposed and to address the common products and services from two perspectives:
(1) A market segmentation will provide a tool to help classify and understand the markets for EO services as well as to define the type of customer
(2) A thematic segmentation provides a tool to help describe and classify the products that are offered by the service providers.

Taxonomy for EO services market.pdf

(July 2012) Satellite measurements show that nitrogen dioxide in the lower atmosphere over parts of Europe and the US has fallen over the past decade. More than 15 years of atmospheric observations have revealed trends in air quality.

Satellite measurements show that nitrogen dioxide in the lower atmosphere over parts of Europe and the US has fallen over the past decade. More than 15 years of atmospheric observations have revealed trends in air quality.

As the world’s population increases, economies in many countries are also growing and populations are concentrating in large cities. With the use of fossil fuels still on the rise, pollution in large cities is also increasing.

Nitrogen dioxide is an important pollutant in the troposphere, the lowest portion of our atmosphere.

Satellite observations of it began with the launch of the ERS-2 satellite in 1995 and its GOME instrument, originally designed for monitoring atmospheric ozone.

Monitoring continued with the Sciamachy sensor on Envisat, OMI on NASA’s Aura and GOME-2 on Eumetsat’s MetOp.

This set of instruments shows, that over the years, nitrogen dioxide levels have decreased in the US and Europe, but increased in the Middle East and parts of Asia.

“The changes observed from space can be explained by two effects: increased use of fossil fuels in evolving economies, leading to increased pollution and improvements in technology – like cleaner cars – leading to reduced pollution,” explained Andreas Richter, a scientist with the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen in Germany.

“These changes in pollution levels are surprisingly rapid, and satellites are the only way to monitor them globally.

“For this, the long-term availability of satellite instruments that can monitor pollution is of key importance.”

In the US, urban areas in the state of California showed a consistent drop in nitrogen dioxide.

“Airborne and ground-based measurements supported the findings from the satellite data,” said Si-Wan Kim from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“The satellite measurements are now being used to improve the emission inventory in California.”

These results were recently presented at the ‘Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications’ conference in Bruges, Belgium.

Organised by ESA, the conference looked at the remote sensing of trace gases in the atmosphere, clouds and aerosols, greenhouse gases and air quality monitoring.

Beside the scientific exploitation of satellite data, the conference also focused on how information from past Earth observation missions can complement current data for climate monitoring.

The use of current mission data for defining future missions and exploitation programmes is also important.

The Sentinel-4 and -5 missions being developed under Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme will continue to provide measurements of atmospheric chemistry, enabling the development of services especially for monitoring air quality over Europe.

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Events Summer 2012


Start Date End Date Event Web Venue
14-jul-12 22-jul-12 COSPAR 2012: 39th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research web Mysore, India
22-jul-12 27-jul-12 IGARSS 2012 web Munich, Germany
23-jul-12 27-jul-12 Esri International User Conference web San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
30-jul-12 10-aug-12 Earth Observation Summer School on “Earth System Monitoring & Modelling” web Frascati, Italy
06-aug-12 10-aug-12 8th International Conference on Urban Climate web Dublin, Ireland
12-aug-12 16-aug-12 SPIE Optics + Photonics 2012 web San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
15-aug-12 17-aug-12 Latin America Geospatial Forum web Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
17-aug-12 21-aug-12 European Space Expo in Helsinki web Helsinki, Finland
25-aug-12 01-sep-12 ISPRS Congress 2012 web Melbourne, Australia
26-aug-12 30-aug-12 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2012 web Davos, Switzerland
28-aug-12 01-sep-12 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology web Glasgow, UK
03-sep-12 05-sep-12 GRSG/EAGE Remote Sensing Workshop web Paris, France
03-sep-12 07-sep-12 2012 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference web Sopot, Poland
06-sep-12 08-sep-12 State of the Map 2012 web Tokyo, Japan
10-sep-12 11-sep-12 Satellite Data for Storm Surge Modelling and Forecasting web Copenhagen, Denmark
10-sep-12 12-sep-12 5th International Urban Design Conference web Melbourne, Australia
11-sep-12 11-sep-12 Renewable energy: the added value of satellite solutions for SMEs web Graz, Austria
11-sep-12 14-sep-12 ForestSat web Oregon, USA
12-sep-12 14-sep-12 SimHydro 2012 web Nice, France
13-sep-12 14-sep-12 GMES Academy web Salzburg, Austria
13-sep-12 15-sep-12 4th Earth Observation Symposium, Euroconsult web Paris, France
14-sep-12 14-sep-12 Water resources and wetlands web Tulcea, Romania
14-sep-12 14-sep-12 3rd OGEO workshop web Perth, Australia
17-sep-12 17-sep-12 Joint NCEO/CEOI Science Conference web Nottingham, UK
17-sep-12 20-sep-12 IceTech web Alberta, Canada
17-sep-12 19-sep-12 Asian Geospatial Forum web Hanoi, Vietnam
19-sep-12 22-sep-12 3rd EARSeL Workshop Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaelogy and cultural heritage management web Ghent, Belgium
20-sep-12 21-sep-12 6th Coastal Altimetry Workshop web Riva del Garda, Italy
21-sep-12 26-sep-12 FOSS4G 2012 web Beijing, China
24-sep-12 26-sep-12 International Conference on Managing Protected Areas under Climate Change web Dresden, Germany
24-sep-12 27-sep-12 SPIE, Remote sensing 2012 web Edimburgh, UK
24-sep-12 29-sep-12 20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry web Venice, Italy
25-sep-12 30-sep-12 European Space Expo in Brussels web Brussels, Belgium
26-sep-12 26-sep-12 4th Space Days 2012 – Zoom on Earth web Liege, Belgium
26-sep-12 27-sep-12 Space Days 2012 – Space on Earth web Liege, Belgium
27-sep-12 27-sep-12 European Satellite Day 2012: MayDay! A day without satellites web Brussels, Belgium
27-sep-12 28-sep-12 Implementing Flood Resilience web Athens, Greece
30-sep-12 04-oct-12 GIS-Pro 2012: URISA’s 50th Annual Conference for GIS Professionals web Portland, OR, U.S.A.
02-oct-12 04-oct-12 African Geospatial Forum web Accra, Ghana
08-oct-12 08-oct-12 Bringing GMES and regions closer web Brussels, Belgium
10-oct-12 10-oct-12 Launch Event NEREUS/ESA-Publication “60+ Uses of GMES across European Regions” web Brussels, Belgium
08-oct-12 11-oct-12 GeoInt 2012 Symposium web Orlando, FL, USA
09-oct-12 11-oct-12 2012 INTERGEO web Hannover, Germany
08-oct-12 10-oct-12 CAMUSS, the International Symposium on Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Spatial Systems web Oporto, Portugal
10-oct-12 10-oct-12 Launch Event NEREUS/ESA Joint Publication “60+ uses of GMES across European Regions” web Brussels, Belgium
12-oct-12 16-oct-12 6th URISA Caribbean GIS Conference web Montego Bay, Jamaica
15-oct-12 17-oct-12 Esri European User Conference web Oslo, Norway
15-oct-12 18-oct-12 10th Seminar on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Forestry web Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
15-oct-12 19-oct-12 MERIS/AATSR and Sentinel-3 (OLCI/SLSTR) Workshop web Frascati, Italy
15-oct-12 19-oct-12 3rd MERIS/(A)ATSR & OLCI/SLSTR Preparatory Workshop web Frascati, Italy
16-oct-12 17-oct-12 International Symposium on Assessing the Interplay: Climate Change, Development and Human Rights web Bergen, Norway
16-oct-12 17-oct-12 GOCE Solid Earth Workshop web Enschede, The Netherlands
17-oct-12 19-oct-12 EUROPE-INBO 2012 web Istanbul, Turkey
18-oct-12 18-oct-12 Valuing and managing biodiversity: how satellite applications can help web Lille, France
22-oct-12 26-oct-12 ITS Vienna 2012 web Vienna, Austria
22-oct-12 26-oct-12 European Space Expo in Vienna web Vienna, Austria
24-oct-12 26-oct-12 IIM Conference: Knowledge Discovery from Earth Observation Data web DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
29-oct-12 02-nov-12 9th AARSE Conference web El Jadida, Morocco
07-nov-12 09-nov-12 United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster
Management: “Risk Assessment in the Context of Climate Change”
web Beijing, China
08-nov-12 09-nov-12 Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems and Networks for Fire Detection and Management web Antalya, Turkey
12-nov-12 16-nov-12 European Space Expo in Cyprus web Larnaca, Cyprus
13-nov-12 13-nov-12 Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science web Frascati, Italy
15-nov-12 16-nov-12 FP7 Space Conference:Let´s embrace the Space web Larnaca, Cyprus
19-nov-12 23-nov-12 XV Symposium SELPER web Cayenne, France
26-nov-12 30-nov-12 33rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS 2012). web Pattaya City, Thailand
20-nov-12 20-nov-12 Challenge Workshop – Challenges in Calibration of EO Instrumentation web Oxford, UK
28-nov-12 28-nov-12 SEMWO 2012 – Space Economy in the Multipolar World Third international conference web Vilnius,Lithuania
01-dec-12 06-dec-12 European Space Expo in London web London, UK
03-dec-12 05-dec-12 European Space Solutions web London, UK
04-dec-12 05-dec-12 ELMF European Lidar Mapping Forum web Salzburg, Austria
11-dec-12 13-dec-12 GRSG AGM 2012: Monitoring and Managing the Earth’s Resources web London, UK
13-dec-12 16-dec-12 8th International Conference on Geo-Information for Disaster Management web Enschede, Netherlands
16-dec-12 18-dec-12 Computer Vision in Remote Sensing web Xiamen, China
17-dec-12 19-dec-12 Paris Space Week web Paris, France
07-jan-13 09-jan-13 IPWE 2013 web Izmir, Turkey
21-jan-13 23-jan-13 DGI 2013 web London, UK
21-jan-13 25-jan-13 2nd Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry web Frascati, Italy
28-jan-13 01-feb-13 POLinSAR 2013 web Frascati, Italy
29-jan-13 29-jan-13 European Space Conference web Brussels, Belgium
24-feb-13 01-mar-13 GEOProcessing 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Advanced
Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services
web Nice, France
26-feb-13 28-feb-13 Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2013 web Munich, Germany
05-mar-13 07-mar-13 ISU 17th Annual International Symposium:‘Space Technology And Tele-Reach:Benefiting Humanity on Earth and Beyond’ web Strasbourg, France
12-mar-13 14-mar-13 CryoSat Third User Workshop web Dresden, Germany
18-mar-13 20-mar-13 3rd EOS Topical Meeting on Blue Photonics – Optics in the Sea web Texel, Netherlands
08-apr-13 10-apr-13 ‘First International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geo-information of Environment’ web Pafos, Cyprus
09-apr-13 11-apr-13 Third International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering web Gran Canaria, Spain
21-apr-13 23-apr-13 JURSE 2013 web Sao Paolo, Brazil
22-apr-13 26-apr-13 35th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE35) web Bejing, China
13-may-13 16-may-13 Geospatial World Forum web Rotterdam, Netherlands
03-jun-13 06-jun-13 33rd EARSeL symposium 2013 web Matera, Italy
04-jun-13 04-jun-13 Education&Training web Matera, Italy
06-jun-13 07-jun-13 5th Workshop on Remote Sensing for Developing Countries web Matera, Italy
06-jun-13 07-jun-13 4th Workshop on Cultural and Natural Heritage web Matera, Italy
17-jun-13 21-jun-13 13th Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering web Lille, France
07-jul-13 11-jul-13 9th European Conference on Precision Farming web Lleida, Spain
22-jul-13 24-jul-13 COM.Geo 2013 web Silicon Valley, CA, USA
25-aug-13 30-aug-13 26th International Cartographic Conference web Dresden, Germany
09-sep-13 13-sep-13 ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013 web Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Eomag launched 17July2012

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is announcing the planned launch of exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built, on 22nd July by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

exactView-1 (previously known as ADS-1b) was built under contract for exactEarth and will become the fifth deployed satellite in exactEarth’s advanced vessel monitoring satellite constellation. COM DEV Canada acted as prime contractor and COM DEV Europe(UK) supplied the advanced AIS transceiver payload system for this mission. The satellite is based on SSTL’s off-the-shelf SSTL-100 platform, adapted for the mission with an additional deployable solar panel providing extra power for the COM DEV designed AIS receiver payload.

AIS is currently deployed on more than 80,000 vessels globally, however AIS base station receivers are mostly based on land and can only track ships moving up to 50 nautical miles off the coast. exactEarth is pioneering space-based AIS services that increases the range, enabling the monitoring of vessels throughout the World’s oceans. Operating from a polar orbit, exactView-1 will utilise high-speed S-band and C-band communications to frequently downlink information to ground stations in Svalbard, Norway, Guildford, UK and several other locations around the world. exactEarth will use a constellation of AIS satellites to provide near real time information about vessel locations, routes and traffic for commercial and governmental customers.

Internet: www.sstl.co.uk/launches/exactView-1

(July 2012). Speaking in Japan at the Google-hosted event, “Big Tent: The Role of Technology in Disaster Preparedness and Relief”, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) head of office Margareta Wahlström said Google and other providers of information can make an important contribution to raising awareness about disaster risk reduction in disaster-prone countries.


“Experience shows that early warning messages save lives if people receiving the message know how to act – what to do when the emergency strikes.

She pointed out that the internet combined with technologies such as Geographic Information systems make it possible to better understand hazards, and, in particular, the growing exposure and vulnerability of cities to disasters and risks.“There is an opportunity for Google and other providers of information to make themselves part of the chain of education and awareness raising that is necessary to reach all people in exposed and vulnerable regions and to save lives. In a number of high risk countries, 90 percent of the people have a cell phone, and only 10 percent have internet access. Innovative partnerships will overcome this gap.”

Google took the opportunity of the event to urge governments to get better at sharing information to allow citizens and first responders to make better use of the Internet during natural disasters. Rachel Whetstone, the firm’s senior vice president of public policy and communications, said that some countries hesitate over disclosing data and that this prevents civil society from creating new services to help citizens in need.

Read more: UNISDR