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Venice has experienced major subsidence over the last century due to ground water extraction.

As soon as the potential threat to this unique historical site was recognised, extraction activities were stopped. Many studies published in the last twenty years have suggested that the subsidence had stopped.

Research conducted by Yehuda Bock (Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego) and Shimon Wdowinski (Marine & Atmospheric Science University of Miami), together with TRE, has indicated that Venice is indeed still subsiding at the relatively slow rate of about 2 mm a year and tilting gently to the east. The team used a combination of GPS and satellite data to map subsidence over Venice and its lagoon.

“The value of the latest data is in how it helps local authorities plan defences much further into the future”, said team-member Yehuda Bock, during an interview with the BBC.

For more information, see the BBC news article

and TRE

Venice has experienced major subsidence over the last century due to ground water extraction.

As soon as the potential threat to this unique historical site was recognised, extraction activities were stopped. Many studies published in the last twenty years have suggested that the subsidence had stopped.

Research conducted by Yehuda Bock (Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego) and Shimon Wdowinski (Marine & Atmospheric Science University of Miami), together with TRE, has indicated that Venice is indeed still subsiding at the relatively slow rate of about 2 mm a year and tilting gently to the east. The team used a combination of GPS and satellite data to map subsidence over Venice and its lagoon.

“The value of the latest data is in how it helps local authorities plan defences much further into the future”, said team-member Yehuda Bock, during an interview with the BBC.

For more information, see the BBC news article

and TRE

Space Technologies for the Arctic Region exploration,…

Space Technologies for the Arctic Region exploration, mastering and conservation:“Earth from Space…” magazine issue #10 materials are available (2012-04-13)

All the articles of the 10th bilingual issue of the “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” magazine are available at the website of the edition www.zikj.ru in section Archive/№10. The cover story of the issue is “Space Technologies for the Arctic Region exploration, mastering and conservation”.

The Arctic — a region of a unique combination of the inimitable nature and severe climate, richest natural resources deposits and low population, extremely vulnerable and intact ecosystems, an arena of international integration and geopolitical antagonism. Nowadays the exploration of the Arctic Region requires new approaches, ensuring rational subsoil use and nature protection based on state-of-the-art science and technologies and first of all space ones. Space technology ought to become an efficient tool in the national economy development to make the might of Russia that used to “grow by Siberia” grow by the Arctic Region as well.

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Images from UK-DMC2 satellite will help in monitoring floods and agricultural lands status (2012-04-11)

Requests for taking UK-DMC2 images of Russia and adjacent areas can be placed now. The imagery is conducted by ScanEx RDC using the network of “UniScan” ground receiving stations. The respective agreement has been signed between ScanEx RDC and this satellite Operator – the DMCii company.

In compliance with the distributor agreement ScanEx RDC is entitled to distribute UK-DMC2 images in Russia, Beralus, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

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Participants of the “Symbols of the Millennium” festival draw attention to disabled persons’ problems (2012-04-13)

“Symbols of the Millennium” festival: on April 9 the Bluetooth, RSS, open-source software, “Like” and some other signs became new candidates into the list of the symbols of the millennium. For the first time the “glasses” symbol (indicating blind people or those with bad eyesight) was included into the list of the millennium to draw the attention of the public to the problems of people with limited capacity. Vote for the symbols that in your opinion should be included in the final composition. It will then be put on top of the roof of the “Rumyantsevo” business-park and “shot” using RS satellites. You may cast your vote in the thematic groups of the Vkontakte (http://vk.com/symbol.fest) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/groups/symbol.fest) social networks.

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Festival “Symbols of the millennium. Space technology — to the society (2012-04-03)

The “Symbols of the millennium” festival will take place in 2012. Graphical pictures – symbols of the third millennium – will be put on the surface of the roofs of the Moscow Region “Rumyantsevo” business park buildings. The final composition will be imaged by space satellites. Highly detailed satellite images will be posted for free access and integrated into popular web-mapping resources.

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Remote Sensing Application Center – ReSAC has a keen interest on prevention of natural disasters, including floods – an actual topic in the last week. The natural continuation of the work in this field is the participation of ReSAC in a joint project with the Basin Directorate Danube region, which supports the Directorate in preparation of “Preliminary flood risk assessment”.

The aim of the project is to analyze the flood risk in the settlements, located on major rivers and to make a potential flood risk assessment. The project is in implementation of the requirements in the Water Act and Directive 2007/60/EC about the flood risk assessment and management. The project is successfully finalized in December 2011, detailed information can be found on the website of Basin Directorate Danube Region – Pleven

The flood topic and the necessity of preventive activity are very actual in the last few weeks because of the floods, which caused serious damages and human victims in different parts of the country. The tragedy in Biser village, municipality Charmanli occurred after the dam failure of Ivanovo reservoir, as a result a high water wave raised, which affected the settlement in the morning hours of 06.02.2012.

Based on the available information, ReSAC immediately prepared a flood simulation model in the village. Heavy rainfalls caused significant damages to other settlements – Charmanli, Svilengrad, in which some neighborhoods were under water. More information is available on the website of the Agency for Sustainable Development and Eurointegraton – Ecoregions

The broken dam of Ivanovo reservoir and the overflowing reservoirs in different parts of the country set the agenda and some other important questions, related to the management of reservoirs in Bulgaria and establishing of register. Recognizing the importance of this information, ReSAC has set itself the ambitious task to map all standing water bodies within the territory of Bulgaria, including reservoirs, based on satellite imagery and aerophotos with very high spatial resolution and applying information about them. At present, ReSAC has a detailed register of all standing water bodies in the country, which can be seen here

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Brandenburg / Havel, Germany, March 13, 2012 – RapidEye, the leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of satellites announced today that its imagery is being used by the MALAREO project to assist with malaria control programs in countries in southern Africa.

While mosquitoes can obviously not be observed via satellite, their habitats, which are considered malaria risk areas, can be. The MALAREO project, funded by the European Commission under FP7, is a mixed European-African consortium which incorporates years of experience in malaria control with the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) EO capacity.

Approximately 25,000 square kilometers of RapidEye data was provided via the EC/ESA GMES Space Component Data Access (GSC-DA) covering the MALAREO study area in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. The data was acquired on five different days between July 18 and November 10, 2011, with total cloud cover of less than one percent. RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, partner in the project consortium, is responsible for data processing and the development of Earth Observation (EO) products.

Even small water bodies and wetlands play an important role as larval breeding sites for malaria transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes. The identification of water bodies and wetlands are a direct indicator for malaria risk and the distance of local population to water is a major determinant for malaria incidence. In addition, the relation between different land cover types and malaria incidence will be geo-statistically investigated by incorporating other remotely sensed environmental parameters such as elevation, land surface temperature, rainfall estimates, vegetation indices, etc. In addition, it is a hypothesis that recently introduced large-scale irrigated agriculture in the region has caused a change in malaria incidence patterns. High resolution RapidEye data will be used to investigate the relationship between these factors and malaria incidence.

Last month, a meeting with end-users from the Southern African National Malaria Control Programmes and the MALAREO project team took place in Durban, South Africa, where RapidEye imagery and the first derived products were presented. The end-users emphasized the benefit of these EO products for malaria control, since these products will greatly improve planning of malaria control measures and will compliment the approach of linking environmental and epidemiological data, which is a first step towards an early warning system for malaria.

Project partners are the South African Medical Research Council and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; The National Malaria Control Program of Swaziland, RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions from Germany, The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and EUROSENSE, the project coordinators, based in Belgium.

For more information about the MALAREO project, please visit the website www.malareo.net.

A large portion of this press release was contributed by Dr. Jonas Franke, from RSS near Munich. www.rssgmbh.de

About RapidEye

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PCI news about Geomatica 2012, GXL technology used to process 1m imagery for ArcGIS Online World Imagery Map, online courses, ….

PCI Geomatics releases Geomatica 2012 Service Pack 2

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—April 12, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it has released Geomatica 2012, Service Pack 2 (SP2).

This release contains maintenance fixes and includes all updates delivered since Geomatica 2012 Service Pack 1. The update is available for both Windows and Linux-based operating systems….

PCI Geomatics’ GXL Technology used to process 1m imagery for ArcGIS Online World Imagery Map

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 26, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that the GXL Cloud system it deployed for Esri in 2011 has successfully been used to process large volumes of 1 meter pansharpened Ikonos imagery. Imagery processed through the use of the GXL Cloud system is now available for free through ArcGIS Online.

The imagery processed using PCI’s GXL system was published to the ArcGIS Online World Imagery map earlier this month. Expanded coverage is now available for Korea and several countries in the Middle East and North Africa – with several more updates planned over the coming months. Samples of the imagery processed using PCI’s GXL technology can be accessed here: http://pci.gl/wdqxP7….

PCI Geomatics Announces Availability of Online Courses for Geomatica

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 22, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it is now offering online courses for its desktop image processing software, Geomatica.
PCI has a large base of Geomatica customers throughout the world, and offers a number of resources to help new and experienced users get the most out of their software investment. Based on market research and customer feedback, instructor-led training continues to offer the highest value in terms of operational knowledge obtained versus instruction time/approach. Over the past few years, PCI has observed a shift towards offering training online, due to the convenience it offers in terms of travel and the reduced time commitment (because there is no travel required to participate)….

PCI Geomatics Releases GXL Aerial v2.1

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 20, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo- imaging software and systems, today announces the release of its GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-Aerial) version 2.1; the latest version of the company’s high-speed, high-volume multi CPU/GPU distributed processing software for aerial workflows.

Following feedback from its user base, PCI has made numerous improvements to the GXL including increases in accuracy and speed, advanced automation, and an enhanced user experience. GXL Aerial v2.1 also adds support for the DMC camera format providing wider usability and flexibility….

PCI Geomatics and University of New Brunswick receive Innovation Award

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 7, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it was the co-recipient of a prestigious Synergy Award for Innovation for 2011, along with the University of New Brunswick (UNB).

The Synergy Awards for Innovation were launched in 1995 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to recognize partnerships in natural sciences and engineering research and development between universities and Canadian industry. Since their inception, the Awards have honored the most outstanding achievements of university-industry collaboration in the natural sciences and engineering….

Education Alliance Agreement signed with Northeastern University

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 01, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it has signed an Education Alliance agreement with Northeastern University (NEU), located in Boston, MA.

In order to promote cooperation and knowledge exchange, PCI Geomatics has created the ‘PCI Geomatics Education Alliance Program’ designed to create strong reciprocal relationships with select educational institutions. Under the terms of the Alliance Program, PCI Geomatics provides software licenses to support teaching and research activities in exchange for insights into the work being conducted at the University with PCI Geomatics software. The program fosters communication between the University and PCI scientists, and provides an outlet to the commercial world, highlighting the work conducted at the University using PCI Geomatics software….

PCI Geomatics launches GXL Professional Production Services

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—February 10, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it is now offering image processing services — leveraging its award winning GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) technology.

PCI has invested significantly in developing highly automated, high-performance image production systems designed to process large volumes of imagery quickly, efficiently, and with a high degree of quality. A service which leverages these systems is now available through PCI’s new GXL Professional Production Services. The GXL Professional Production Services are ideally suited to help customers who are faced with sudden peaks in demand for their color-balanced, orthorectified mosaic products, derived from raw aerial or satellite imagery. Calling upon PCI’s GXL Professional Production Services can provide these customers with additional processing capacity….

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  • GeoMedia® Smart Client Widens GIS Availability
  • Russian State Center for Applied Microbiology Selects Intergraph’s ERDAS IMAGINE and ERDAS APOLLO to Aid Infectious Disease Management
  • Saving Lives and Property with GeoNexus for iPad
  • Trainer’s Tip — GeoMedia

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MFB-GeoConsulting Training Course: Monitoring and Early Warning System in the area of Yarkant River, Xinjiang Province

The one day-training “Early Warning System Workflow in ERDAS Imagine and LPS”, which took place on 21 March 2012 at MFB-GeoConsulting focused on one hand on tasks to be mentioned by decision-makers and second on practical hints of SW-user for future Chinese system operators. We gave a broad introduction on optical remote sensing in terms of further background for decision-making, and on the other hand we provided processing details in ERDAS Imagine and LPS software.

The focus of the course on the application side of the optical remote sensing data was on monitoring for the glacier lake in order to forecast outbursts, including all the steps from image acquisition to the map production.

Moreover, a specially prepared Service Manual was provided to the trainees.

Key issues of training course:

  • Introduction to optical remote sensing
  • Archive Data Search
  • New Data Ordering
  • Geometric Correction and Orthorectification
  • Image Classification with Region Growing
  • Precise DSM Generation from Worldview-2 Stereo Imagery
  • Image Mosaicing
  • Base Map Poduction
  • Change Detection
  • Early Warning Systems Workflow

The Training Course was performed PD Dr. Michael Baumgartner (Managing Director MFB-GeoConsulting) by our specialists in photogrammetry (Dr. Sauerbier) and remote sensing (MSc. Olga Chesnokova).

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(4 April 2012) Cosmos class reconnaissance satelllite successful in orbit

Russia has confirmed the launch Friday of a Cosmos class military satellite atop a Space Forces Proton-M carrier rocket. “The rocket put the Cosmos-series military satellite into the designated orbit at 09:49 p.m. Moscow time (12:49 a.m. EDT),” Space Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Alexey Zolotukhin told RIA Novosti. The launch was conducted by the Aerospace Defense Forces, Zolotukhin said.

Russia reportedly operates a constellation of 60-70 military satellites capable of reconnaissance, missile early warning and other operations.

Credits: UPI/RIA Novosti/Space War

(2012-02-02) Metria won GMES GIO Land contracts to map the Nordic countries/Baltic States, but also as a subcontractor perform pre-processing of satellite data covering Turkey.

Starting from 2012 Metria will map forest and imperviousness based on new satellite data covering northern Europé. Other service providers will do the rest of Europe in order to compile a pan-European coverage based on image data from 2011 and 2012. This is the first land related contracts issued within GMES GIO Land and provide maps and databases possible to use for a wide range of applications.

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