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Each Member State has to transpose the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) Directive into its national legislation and to develop the interoperable services allowing the management and sharing of spatial data. There will be also requirements on spatial planning to accept the implementation rules of INSPIRE Directive.

The project “SDI-EDU for regional and urban planning” (“SDI” as Spatial Data Infrastructure and “EDU” as Education) is going to support training of responsible people to set up and use some of these services according to the specific problems of the European regions on local and regional level. The SDI-EDU project will thus let the regions participate actively in the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive.

One of the main objectives of the project is to establish a geo-portal that will serve for vocational education of spatial planners. The spatial planners could find here information, educational material and documents which will provide them with the knowledge of the INSPIRE-related topics that will influence their daily work in a very close future. The educational content covers the basics and the most important topics regarding the INSPIRE Directive and also reflects the hot-topic specifics.

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The “Eduspace” website of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been recently updated and improved with new case studies, which are the cornerstone of the website.

This site has been for many years a window on the world for secondary students and teachers, providing a valuable source of ideas on how to introduce Earth observation techniques and applications from space into the classroom. Although it was developed for secondary school students, some material is also suited to university undergraduate level.

The new “Interactive Meteosat” section covers many different aspects of weather forecasting. It includes introductory pages on weather and climate, and a selection of images of Europe sent back from Meteosat. The case study also includes four worksheets with various exercises related to satellite pictures taken at different wavelengths. The final worksheet brings everything together by asking students to make their own measurement and their forecast. Another new section covers one of nature’s most spectacular and powerful creations: volcanoes. A notable addition is the introduction of a Greek version of the website, being now available in nine languages.

More information is available at:

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMSOB6UXSG_index_0.htm

The aim of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme is to provide accurate, timely and easily accessible information. This will improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and support decision-making in emergency and crisis situations.

To achieve these goals, the EU-led initiative relies on a wide range of satellite data from over 40 European and international space missions, along with other environmental datasets, provided through the Data Access system of the GMES Space Component.

With this GMES Space Component Data Access scheme, Earth observation data are made available in a unified manner to European service providers on Earth’s land, oceans and atmosphere, climate, security and emergency response management.Europe Coverage

Since the beginning of the data access initiative in 2007, this scheme has provided a wide range of Earth observation data to GMES services.

This included high-resolution images for the European Urban Atlas, images and data for monitoring land use at European level and delivering validated biophysical products across Europe.

It also provided radar and optical images for emergency mapping during crises and made many other on-demand products based on available satellite imagery.

Now, the initiative is entering a new phase that will last until 2014.

Data will be available faster and easier to a larger community of users through a dedicated web-based portal.

The portal will be used for all data requests and transactions, and integrates all elements into a comprehensive online catalogue.

This new system aims to improve upon the existing service performance and reduce the response time to data requests, especially when dealing with situations like natural and man-made disasters.

ESA and the European Commission have already invested over €50 million into this system and will, in this new phase, invest close to €90 million more.

With the launch of the first Sentinel mission scheduled for mid-2013, even more datasets will be available for the GMES Space Component.

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Researchers across the globe launched the 5-phase HIPPO (HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observation) project to provide this perspective; having generated the first detailed mapping — both vertically and across latitudes — of the global distribution of greenhouse gases, black carbon and related chemical species in the atmosphere.

_Once international agreements demand it, effective, enforceable greenhouse gas reduction will require in-depth information on the fluxes and transports of these and other atmospheric constituents.
Researchers know that concentrations of aerosols like black carbon and gases like carbon dioxide, water vapor, ozone, and nitrous oxide vary across the globe and by season. Until recently, a fine-grained picture of the concentrations and understanding of the dynamics of these atmospheric components did not exist._

bq.“With HIPPO, we now have whole slices of the global atmosphere that, in many cases, appear differently than we expected,” said Steven Wofsy, HIPPO principal investigator and atmospheric scientist at Harvard University.

What HIPPO will tell us

Scientists expect that this detailed view will allow them to more realistically approximate the global atmosphere’s chemical distribution and improve understanding of how the land, ocean and atmosphere interact. In addition to feeding basic scientific understanding, HIPPO will provide a vital source of data useful for informing policy related to climate and climate change. Carbon dioxide levels, sources (areas where more carbon is released to the atmosphere than is taken up), and sinks (where carbon uptake is greater than release) are a significant focus for HIPPO scientists.

“In tracking carbon dioxide exchange, we’re particularly interested in the tropical forests, the northern forests and the ocean around Antarctica,” said Britton Stephens, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and HIPPO co-investigator. “HIPPO provides such a broad perspective, giving us an opportunity to see the different regional influences on carbon dioxide distributions around much of the globe.”

HIPPO, supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and a number of universities, collects detailed, high-accuracy measurements of atmospheric constituents. After launching its proof of concept in spring 2008, the first series of global flights began in January 2009 with subsequent flights occurring twice in 2010 and twice in 2011.

The HIPPO plane, a Gulfstream V flew researchers and precision instruments measuring about 150 gases and atmospheric constituents, from nearly pole to pole across the Pacific Ocean, flying at altitudes varying between 500 and 47,000 feet above sea level, depending on the daily project objective. The first campaign — typical of the ones to follow — began in Boulder, Colorado, explored the air over the Arctic, the moving lab headed next to Christchurch, New Zealand, before flying over the Southern Ocean, with subsequent layovers in Tahiti, Easter Island and Central America.

The big exhale: Carbon dioxide

With the last of the five missions recently completed, Stephens brings attention to what he calls the Northern Hemisphere’s “exhale.” HIPPO experimental design called for seasonal data collection to get a complete, year-round perspective on global atmospheric processes. In the first three missions, occurring during Northern Hemisphere’s fall, winter and early spring, the scientists noted significant changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) distribution and concentrations.

“By lining up the same slice of atmosphere in seasonal order over the course of the first three missions, it’s possible to see build-up of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere over fall, winter and spring,” said Stephens. “A giant pool of CO2 grows in the Northern Hemisphere as photosynthesis slows and as fossil-fuel CO2 emissions and plant and soil respiration continue.”

Notably, in the most northerly regions of the Arctic, the researchers found rapid filling of the atmosphere with CO2 at high altitudes during winter and spring, likely moved by the warm conveyor belt, which challenges existing perceptions of atmospheric processes.

The last two HIPPO missions helped provide a clearer view on the all-season, big picture perspective on carbon dioxide dynamics. The fourth mission occurred in June and July of 2011 and the fifth during August and September; during these periods, Northern Hemisphere CO2 concentrations were at their lowest as vegetation growth and photosynthetic processes peaked. As expected, throughout this period the researchers saw a massive inhalation of CO2 across the Northern Hemisphere, as the growing plants breathed in the CO2.

Measuring CO2at the variety of altitudes and latitudes gives scientists much tighter constraints — and therefore greater understanding — on the total amount of CO2release (or uptake) for the hemisphere. Older estimates of hemispheric exchange, which relied on information collected at the surface, turn out to be off by about 30 percent, said Stephens: “Looking up through the boundary layer using imperfect atmospheric transport models has been like staring through foggy swim goggles — finally, HIPPO is giving us a clear view.”

Other important atmospheric components: Black carbon and nitrous oxide

Other measurements are generating excitement from the three completed campaigns, Wofsy said. HIPPO observations show a more widespread, uniform distribution of black carbon than anticipated, with greater than expected abundances occurring at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Additionally, concentrations of nitrous oxide (N2O), the third most important long-lived anthropogenic greenhouse gas (the other two being CO2 and methane), are higher than expected in the mid- and upper-tropical troposphere than on the surface; without the instrumentation and measuring capabilities of HIPPO, scientists could not have known this. Details on some of the unexpected — and unpredictable — findings related to these atmospheric components are outlined below.

Black Carbon

Black carbon affects climate, doing so both directly (by absorbing solar radiation) and indirectly (by forming clouds that will either reflect or absorb radiation, depending on their characteristics and location). Black carbon deposited on snow or ice also enhances melt leading the Earth’s surface to absorb more sunlight. These dark aerosols have a variety of sources, coming from diesel fuel or coal combustion, burning plants in forest fires and various industrial processes.

Most black carbon remains in the atmosphere for only days to weeks, but it can still have a dramatic impact on global warming. HIPPO’s pole-to-pole measurements of black carbon may assist policy makers in developing strategies for reducing its climate change impact.

Among other things, the HIPPO measurements have provided new knowledge on the life cycle of a black carbon particle as it travels from source (emission) to sink (removal) in the atmosphere. Used together with global aerosol models, HIPPO’s pole-to-pole measurements of black carbon captured in different seasons can be used to refine our knowledge of how black carbon aerosols affect climate, said Ryan Spackman, an atmospheric chemist in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory.

Prior to HIPPO, a limited number of airborne measurements of black carbon were conducted. Of the studies available, all lack HIPPO’s combination of vertical and latitudinal detail. Since global aerosol models vary widely in projected black carbon concentrations, HIPPO data will prove invaluable for many aspects of climate research. Because most black carbon emissions occur at the surface, typically the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere decreases with altitude. In the Southern Hemisphere, which has fewer pollution sources than the Northern Hemisphere, however, this is not the case.

“In our first flights near the southern Pole, we saw the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere increasing with altitude,” said Joshua Schwarz, a physicist working in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory. “This indicates that the black carbon was transported to the region from far away, with rain-out occurring at lower altitudes. This conclusion offers insights on the interplay of transport and removal mechanisms that can help in validation of global model results.”

HIPPO covers a wide range of latitudes over a short time, reducing the likelihood that the scientists would miss transport of black carbon across the Pacific. This perspective helped them unravel the nuances of transport dynamics from removal processes, which strengthened the impact of their results.

In the first HIPPO mission, which occurred during Northern Hemisphere winter, the black carbon team analyzed pole-to-pole distributions of black carbon, in the process learning that global aerosol models often overestimate black carbon in the atmosphere. “For black carbon, these observations have helped us to more easily separate the impacts of errors in modeling removal and errors in modeling transport and emissions,” said Schwarz.

During the second and third HIPPO missions, which occurred in Northern Hemisphere fall and spring, the scientists observed large-scale black carbon pollution events associated with the intercontinental transport of vast amounts of pollution from Asia. Investigators observed elevated pollution at almost all altitudes in the Arctic, but especially at higher altitudes, where one might expect the air to be relatively clear and clean. The scientists discovered that pollutants can be easily transported to the Arctic as thin sheets of air in almost any season.

Another surprise waiting for the scientists was the seasonality of the plumes of black carbon-laden pollution at mid-latitudes (between Hawaii and Alaska). During springtime, the scientists identified pollution contributions from two predominant sources — human-made pollution from Asia and biomass burning from Southeast Asia.

“The black carbon mass loadings in pollution plumes in the remote Pacific were comparable with what we have observed in large American cities,” said Spackman. “Even more surprising, we discovered that this pollution extended over the entire depth of the troposphere — from near the surface of the ocean to 28,000 feet.”

Nitrous Oxide

On each HIPPO flight the scientists frequently saw higher levels of N2O at higher altitudes than at the surface. Not only is N2O a powerful greenhouse gas, it may be the most important stratospheric ozone-depleting substance in the atmosphere. Consequently, more than simply being scientifically intriguing, a better understanding of where it is found and in what concentrations is important information for both scientists and decision makers.

Primary N2O emissions come from soils and the ocean; a large human-generated component originates as a result of fertilizer use for agriculture. These anthropogenic emissions are a relatively new source, and have been increasing since the mid 1800s — from 260 parts per billion (ppb) to 320 ppb, said Eric Kort, who recently completed his Ph.D. with Wofsy at Harvard. While not the only driver of the N2O-related research on HIPPO, the rapid rise in human-generated N2O concentrations in the atmosphere adds urgency to the N2O investigation.

To the surprise of HIPPO investigators, they often found elevated concentrations of N2O high in the atmosphere — even over areas where ground-based monitors did not indicate presence of the gas at the surface. The higher-than-expected levels of N2O at altitude indicate more dynamics at work than previously appreciated, explains Kort.

Some analysis shows that large-scale convective activity (i.e., storms) and a lot of rainfall, which might result in increased microbial activity, might have a hand in achieving this reality. Convection wafts N2O up into the atmosphere, where the wind catches it, pushing the gas further upward and mixing it at higher altitudes.

“Lots of N2O is lofted from tropical regions,” said Kort. “HIPPO sensors show increased emissions in the tropics, but we don’t know if this occurs naturally, coming from tropical soil sources, or if other processes or perturbations, such as increased use of fertilizers upwind from the forests, causes this.”

Again, lacking direct observations, models of these dynamics historically have played a large role in gaining better predictions of likely N2O behavior. While some models accurately anticipated near-surface N2O abundances, none predicted the persistent elevated levels seen at altitude in the tropics.

Achieving better modeling results will be particularly important in the case of atmospheric N2O, which has increased year after year at a rate approaching 1 part per billion. As society moves toward using and producing biofuels, use of fertilizers will likely increase, which will, in turn, amplify N2O emissions. At some point, N2O could offset benefits from CO2 reduction. Because of this, and because of its importance as a greenhouse gas, scientists and policy makers want to have a well-honed awareness on the transport, fluxes and removal processes affecting N2O.

“Nitrous oxide emissions are certainly something we need to be concerned about in terms of future international regulatory treaties because such non-CO2 emissions will be important. Currently, our knowledge of these emissions is far more limited than is the case for CO2,” said Kort.

Improving global models

Matching up observed and modeled N2O data to better predict behavior of the atmospheric constituents is a significant reason HIPPO exists. The complexity, time and expense of missions like HIPPO make modeling an important way to extend use of the HIPPO data and develop models that better replicate observed atmospheric characteristics.

Alone, neither observations nor models can fully resolve real-world processes. But improved observations that then feed into models can provide revealing new insights on climate dynamics. The major model challenge from the perspective of CO2, said Stephens, is representations of atmospheric mixing. Often the models used have grid structures that are coarser than the fine-scale processes responsible for mixing.

“So, if mixing happens due to convective cells or transport up and over a cold air mass, for example, the transport models used to track CO2 in the atmosphere do not represent these dynamics well,” Stephens said.

Increase in model resolution may improve these issues somewhat, but it does not get around the need for robust observations that capture the characteristics of broad swaths of atmosphere, from the ground to high altitudes. HIPPO profiles extend through the troposphere, expanding existing observational data sets — and knowledge — beyond that allowed by current ground-based capabilities.

Using HIPPO data, researchers will be able to test the accuracy of existing atmospheric models to better identify those that most accurately represent observed processes. Moreover, these observations will aid the design of more innovative models and data-assimilation systems — models and systems able to take full advantage of HIPPO observations. Such improvements will push forward understanding of the processes responsible for uptake of human-emitted CO2 during and between field campaigns — and beyond.

Editor’s Note: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the federal agency charged with funding basic research and education across all fields of science and engineering. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. See the Behind the Scenes Archive.

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EADS Astrium entered uncharted territory this month in accepting financial backing from the European Space Agency (ESA) to build a new high-speed data relay service for Europe while simultaneously creating a market for it.

Astrium has taken privatization of satellite communications and remote-sensing services further than anyone else in the business, showing a willingness to spend hundreds of millions of its own euros with little or no government backing.

But David Chegnion, vice president of business development for Astrium Services, says the public-private partnership agreement inked Oct. 4 with ESA to build, test, launch and operate the new European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) system is different.

“We are pioneering a new service and a new market,” Chegnion says.

Under the terms of the agreement, ESA is to provide Astrium €275 million ($374 million) toward establishing an EDRS system. Development of the service’s two payloads—EDRS-A, which will piggyback on the Eutelsat 9B commercial communications satellite; and EDRS-C, to fly on a yet-to-be-built bird—is estimated at nearly €400 million. Operational transmissions are scheduled to begin in 2014, ending reliance on non-European ground stations for the reception of data from Earth-observation satellites, a potential threat to European independence. Current transmissions of Earth-observation data are limited to the times when satellites fly over ground stations.

Although Astrium has no customers yet for EDRS, Chegnion is quick to point out that ESA and its industrial partners have an anchor tenant for data relay services in the European Commission’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) project, which is expected to launch its first two satellites in the next couple of years.

Funding for GMES maintenance and network operations, however, is still being hashed out within the EC, which in July signaled its intent to eliminate GMES from the forthcoming multi-year funding plan that begins in 2014. If implemented, GMES would be left to rely on voluntary funding contributions from individual EU member states to pay annual operations and maintenance costs estimated in excess of €800 million.

Beyond GMES, Chegnion sees a market for EDRS among national militaries in Europe in need of Earth-observation services. “We are targeting the next generation of national military satellites or commercial Earth-observation satellites,” Chegnion says. “That could include meteorological satellites or commercial Earth-observation satellites.”

Rudi Schmidt, head of ESA’s satellite telecommunications department, says the time is right to pursue a public-private partnership for EDRS.

“The advantage we have is the combination of technology that is ready and GMES [as an anchor tenant],” Schmidt says. EDRS is the fourth public-private partnership the agency has negotiated over the past several years, he notes, adding, “Admittedly, this is the most complicated one.”

Previous partnerships include development of the Hylas-1 telecommunications satellite, under which ESA subsidized construction of an advanced telecom payload built by Astrium Satellites and launched on Hylas-1 last year by start-up satellite operator Avanti Communications of London. Avanti, a publicly traded company, is slated to launch its second Hylas spacecraft next year with no ESA involvement.

Another public-private venture aimed at helping European satellite manufacturers compete with established U.S. giants like Boeing and Space Systems/Loral is Alphasat, a satellite in development for mobile satellite services operator Inmarsat. Featuring a payload financed by ESA, it is slated to launch in late 2012 or early 2013.

The agency’s third foray into public-private partnerships involved Germany’s Small GEO platform, an ESA-subsidized development that gives German Space Agency DLR its own prime contractor in the small telecom satellite market. OHB Technology, based in Bremen, Germany, is building the Small GEO platform and has contracted with Spanish communications satellite operator Hispasat to launch the Hispasat AG1 in 2013. OHB is also expected to sign a contract soon with Astrium Satellites to build the EDRS-C spacecraft. Separately, OHB is negotiating with DLR to construct Heinrich Hertz, a telecommunications research satellite that would feature advanced Ka-band broadcast technologies.

It is too soon to gauge whether ESA’s use of public-private investment schemes is panning out. But Schmidt and Chegnion are confident EDRS as envisioned will succeed.

“It’s inconceivable that we will build and launch the satellites and nobody will operate them,” Schmidt says. “I think this will not happen in the end.”

But if it does, Chegnion says Astrium will work with ESA to find a solution.

“We do not see it as a possibility that the European Union would not need this service, so we are committed with ESA to develop EDRS,” he says. “In the unlikely event that the program with the European Commission and GMES does not happen, we will address that jointly with ESA.”

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Brandenburg / Havel, Germany, October 14, 2011 – RapidEye, a leader in wide area, repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of five satellites announced today that it has secured a multimillion Euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA).


“This contract is for a full coverage of Europe.” said Dr. Marcus Apel, Market Manager for European Governments at RapidEye. “We are looking forward to a successful completion of this project and the opportunity to demonstrate within the European Community the quality and speed with which RapidEye can complete such a mission.”

RapidEye will deliver 39 full country coverages over Europe in varying resolutions. ESA has requested a delivery time line for the project which calls for one third of Europe by November this year and complete delivery by the end of 2012.

For more information about ESA, visit www.esa.int

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About RapidEye

RapidEye is a provider of quality high-resolution satellite imagery and derived geo-information products. With a constellation of five Earth Observation satellites, RapidEye images over 4 million square kilometers of earth every day, and amassed 2 billion square kilometers in its archive in just over two years of commercial operation. With an unprecedented combination of wide area repetitive coverage and five meter pixel size multi-spectral imagery, RapidEye is a natural choice for many industries and government agencies. RapidEye: Delivering the World. www.rapideye.de.

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RapidEye’s EyeFind tool provides online viewing access to the complete RapidEye archive of Earth Obersvation imagery.

EyeFind allows for quick and easy browsing of images collected by the RapidEye constellation satellites over a defined area of interest.

Users can browse RapidEye’s rapidly growing archive based on date, cloud cover and product type. Advanced options allow for parameters to be entered on a map or for a shape file to be uploaded outlining an area of interest.

EyeFind gives you access to over 2.5 BILLION* square kilometers of earth.

Once the desired images have been located, an inquiry can be sent to RapidEye through EyeFind for a quote on price and an estimated delivery time. RapidEye invites you to try EyeFind for yourself for all of your imagery inquiries. EyeFind can be accessed at http://eyefind.rapideye.net

Amount of RapidEye imagery collected between February 2009 and October 2011

The SPOT/VEGETATION programme is the result of a space collaboration between various European partners: Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden and the European Commission.
The programme consists of two optical multispectral instruments in orbit, VEGETATION 1 and VEGETATION 2, respectively launched in 1998 and 2002, as well as the necessary ground infrastructures.

In 2013 the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), will have been hosting the user segment of both SPOT-VEGETATION instruments uninterruptedly for 15 years.

This activity includes the continuous processing, correction, archiving and distribution of the VEGETATION data and added-value products to scientific and commercial customers.

Obviously we will not let the occasion of this 15th anniversary pass unnoticed …. We will, amongst other activities, organize a contest to employ a PhD student at our Institute to work on the extensive VEGETATION (VGT)-archive for a 4-year period. Since VITO, as part of an industrial consortium, is developing the user segment of the ESA PROBA VEGETATION (PROBA-V) mission, methods or improved products based on PROBA-V can also be part of the PhD research. The PROBA-V context is however not a prerequisite. The PhD candidate selected in this contest will be fully funded by VITO. The research will be conducted in close cooperation with a University, which will also act as promotor of the PhD thesis, whereas the Scientific Coordinator of the Remote Sensing Unit (TAP) at VITO will act as co-promotor. Please find more information, as well as a link to the application form, at:

www.spot-vegetation.com

A tentative timeline for the contest described is as follows:
• September 2011: Publication of the announcement of opportunity
• December 2011: Deadline for proposal submission
• March 2012: Contractual issues and start of the PhD activities at VITO
• By mutual arrangement: start of the PhD

Taking part in this contest is exclusively possible via the VGT website. The process is self-explanatory, but if in doubt, please contact the VGT helpdesk at helpdesk@vgt.vito.be

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TechNavio’s analysts forecast the Geographical Information System market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 9.5 percent over the period 2010–2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the initiative to create a borderless Europe. The Geographical Information System market in Europe has also been witnessing an increasing utilization of GIS for transportation management (road, rail, and air traffic).

However, GIS vendors are finding it difficult to adhere to the legal limitations of each country, which could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

Key vendors dominating this market space include Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Hexagon AB, GE Energy, Autodesk Inc., and Bentley Systems Inc.

TechNavio’s Geographical Information System Market in Europe 2010–2014 report has been prepared based on an in-depth analysis of the market with inputs from industry experts. The report focuses on the GIS market in Europe and covers the market for traditional GIS software and services in the European region. This report does not cover the market for geospatial data, geo-enabled engineering, GPS, photogrammetry, and remote sensing. However, the report does include a discussion on the key vendors operating in this market.

Key questions answered in this report:

  • What will the market size be in 2014 and at what rate will it grow?
  • What key trends is this market subject to?
  • What is driving this market?
  • What are the challenges to market growth?
  • Who are the key vendors in this market space?
  • What are the opportunities and threats faced by each of these key vendors?
  • What are the strengths and weaknesses of each of these key vendors?

01. Executive Summary
02. Introduction
03. Market Coverage
04. Market Landscape
05. Vendor Landscape
06. Buying Criteria
07. Market Growth Drivers
08. Drivers and their Impact
09. Market Challenges
10. Market Trends
11. Key Vendor Analysis
11.1 Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.
11.2 Hexagon AB
11.3 GE Energy
11.4 Autodesk Inc.
11.5 Bentley Systems Inc.
12. Other Reports in this Series

List of Exhibits:

Exhibit 1: Geographic Information System Market in Europe 2010–2014 (US$ million)
Exhibit 2: Geographic Information System Market in Europe by End–user Segmentation–2010
Exhibit 3: Geographical Information System Market in Europe by Vendor Segmentation–2010
Exhibit 4: Acquisitions by Hexagon AB in GIS Market
Exhibit 5: Acquisition by GE Energy in GIS market

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The Space Research & Development Unit of DG Enterprise & Industry of the European Commission has taken Space Research to the smart phone platform (iPhone & Android).

The “Embrace Space” Space Research app is the first EU-funded FP7 initiative that allows the user to discover the FP7 Space projects in one convenient and easy-to-use mobile application. The contents are labeled under 3 themes: ISS, Earth & Space. In addition, the app offers a media-rich experience with a video, images and the people behind the scenes. This new version keeps you posted on the latest news regarding the FP7 Space Research projects and allows you to bookmark your favourite subjects.

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