Skip to content

The “GMES and Africa” process was launched by the Maputo Declaration, signed on 15 October 2006. The initiative aims to strengthen and further develop infrastructure for a more coherent exploitation of Earth Observation data (space and in-situ), technologies and services in support of the environmental policies for sustainable development in Africa and ACP countries.

In response to the Maputo Declaration, a large event dedicated to “GMES and Africa” was set up in December 2007 in Lisbon, which resulted in the adoption of “The Lisbon Process on GMES and Africa”, requiring an Action Plan in 2010.

On 9-12 March 2009, the GMES and Africa Coordination Group (composed of 14 members, seven from Europe and seven from Africa) met at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. Representatives from DG JRC, DG Development, DG Enterprise and Industry, EU Member States, ESA and EUMETSAT composed the European side of the Coordination Group.

The aim of this meeting was to start drafting the Action Plan on “GMES and Africa” for submission to the next EU-Africa Summit in 2010.

EUMETSAT has a long experience cooperating with Africa on the operational use of Earth Observation, the organisation should therefore play an important role in the GMES and Africa” initiative. EUMETSAT will ensure that that the expected Action Plan builds on existing Earth Observation capacities in Africa.

More information on Eumetsat website

Source GMES.Info

(March 2009) Perspectives Written by Matt Ball.

We need to do a better job as an industry educating decision makers about why geospatial technology matters. This was one of the main points that Anne Hale-Miglarese, principal at Booz Allen Hamilton and chair of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee, made in her talk at the 75th ASPRS Annual Meeting. While the complaint is not new, this time it really struck me because we’re living in a time that requires strong actions, and GIS is essential to informing that action for maximum efficiency.

Despite years of advocacy and outreach, there’s still a disconnect between the capability and promise of geospatial technology, and the public’s perception. In these days of belt tightening, you may be hearing the suggestion from uninitiated executives to jettison GIS, and all our sophisticated data collection efforts, and just use Google Earth. As the current most visible face of the industry, the Google map environment does a good job of representing, with continuously updated content and a strong focus on the user experience. But Google is just an aggregator of maps and geographical information, and will never be a provider of professional applications.

We need to reinforce this distinction between maps and GIS loudly and clearly, and we must illustrate how much more can be done with geospatial technology. We need to show the benefits of investing to collect nationwide imagery, to map elevation and features more accurately, and to collect data in geospatial systems. It’s these enhanced activities, done by a legion of professionals, that provide the underpinnings for sophisticated solutions. But the public largely isn’t aware of these behind the scenes systems.

Global Change

The heightened awareness of global change provides an incredible platform for geospatial technology to make a difference, and to be recognized for its importance. Issues of energy and environment are central to global policy directions right now, and the geospatial toolset is increasingly important for this decision making. Topics such as renewable energy, smart grid, carbon cap and trade, climate warming, coastal impacts, water and food all are geospatial problems with some established solutions.

If you are working on applying GIS to any of these problems of global change, it’s time to become an advocate. Maybe you’re with a municipality that’s starting to consider climate change as it relates to water use or flooding implications or perhaps you’re with a utility that’s starting to consider Smart Grid planning or renewable energy integration. These topics resonate with the public right now, and it’s your duty to your profession to reach out to local media to show how geospatial technology is making a difference.

There’s too much news about impending doom to just sit back in our cubicles and remain anonymous. Let’s show the public that there are tools that are being applied to help us get a better handle on our complex problems.

Analyzing and Communicating

Directives from the Obama administration to make government more accountable and transparent in their actions could prove key for broader awareness of the role that geospatial technology plays. There’s no better tool available for analyzing, prioritizing and communicating policy directions than geospatial technology.

We’ve already seen one state stand up a website to map stimulus spending, and there will likely be more. With billions of dollars being spent in the United States, and trillions being spent globally, the location of projects that receive funding are of strong public interest. The public wants to know where this money is going and how the spending affects their lives. Beyond just a dynamic map, I’d love to see communication of 4D construction tools to illustrate project status and time to completion.

A good deal of work has been done on communicating geospatial ROI, with GITA’s methodology and worksheets and the recent book from ESRI Press. But I think we’re at a point now where in-depth exercises to justify technology spending won’t matter so much. The focus is on results, and the sooner the better.

In this time of great global change, when our society could greatly benefit from broader and deeper applications of geospatial technology, let’s highlight applications and solutions that are having impact. With greater public awareness, we can ride this time of action to realize more technology advancement.

——————————————————————-

Note: This column alternates weekly between Vector1 Media editors. Matt Ball is editor Americas/Asia Pacific for V1 Magazine and V1 Energy magazine.

SOURCE V1

India is all set to launch a radar imaging satellite (RISAT) built with “substantial inputs” from the Israel aerospace industry from Sriharikota spaceport, an ISRO official said.

Israel has supplied Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which is in fact “heart” of the 1780-kg remote sensing satellite, the official told PTI on condition of anonymity. “Israel has supplied substantial systems,” the ISRO official said.

The Israeli “inputs” are seen as a “return gesture” by the Jewish State to New Delhi for launching an Israeli spacecraft Techsar on board India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota last year.

RISAT is likely to be launched in the first half of April. We are looking at April five or six,” the official said.

An active sensor, SAR operates in the microwave range of electromagnetic spectrum and provides the target parameters such as dielectric constant, roughness, and geometry.

Source: Press Trust of India

Due to popular demand DMCii has extended the proposal deadline for the free imagery for Science until 30th of April 2009.

Free high resolution multispectral satellite imagery from the next generation DMC satellites (UKDMC2 and Deimos-1) is offered to UK and Spanish researchers in support of important global environmental monitoring projects. DMCii and Deimos will provide free high resolution multispectral satellite imagery to 10 projects (5 in UK and 5 in Spain) from the two 22-metre multispectral satellites, due for launch in spring 2009.

For further information please have a look at DMCii

“related artcile“http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102628335197&s=12493&e=001tYYdO3ifR-P6hs-w6LguPEcQXOYfKL16Duot2T728260bpJ7×2xGNObeq-Jd5qmAmdpzDfCv79TMQK0G7XFH2iM8nLXDQFuyUm4qiMVOpYTcE3UAli1pFMCj82SOLo19UEMQ8SQFhm_mazuGCTZWY3jwmWlsLZgYU4bQK5_Iw9Sbq5-5FpUcd0-w8XZm2m2MCBpXyrMy-_0R9lRZdxFYGg==

VAE is an element of the ESA Earth Observation Envelope Program (EOEP-3).

More than 140 proposals were received in response to the first three Invitations To Tender issued in 2008 under the new program VAE (Value Adding Element). This confirms that issues of high interest for the EO service industry are being addressed in VAE.

VAE is an element of the ESA Earth Observation Envelope Program (EOEP-3). It follows on from its predecessor (EOMD) and maintains focus on the needs of the EO service industry. VAE is starting now its new activities over the financing period of the next 5 years (2008-12).

Out of the total pool of proposals, more than 40 have been evaluated as above good in quality and meriting contracts. This exceeds (by a factor 2) the level of activities originally foreseen in the 2008 work-plan for VAE. Currently, a first batch (BATCH1) of 22 contracts are in the negotiation and placing phase for a total value of 4 MEuros. In order to fully cover the most promising ideas submitted by industry, a second batch (BATCH2) of about 20 contracts is going to be started before summer for the remaining positively evaluated proposals.

The list of activities to be started now (BATCH1) is provided below.

AO5828 – INTEGRATE NEW TECHNIQUES/TECHNOLOGIES INTO CURRENT EO SERVICES

Ten contracts have been selected (note the prime contractor is indicated in brackets):

  • PolSAR mapping services for Forestry (Dendron Resource Surveys)
  • New polarimetric Detection for Marine applications (eOsphere)
  • EO Jelly (starlab)
  • Integration of ground photos and EO for risk reduction, disasters and climate change (AnsuR Technologies AS)
  • EO services for CO2 Capture and Storage Facilities (SciSys)
  • Renewable Energy Potential Mapping (Geoville)
  • CO2 Capture and Storage for the Energy Industry using high-resolution SAR (InfoTerra Gmbh)
  • EO for Legal Use (University College London)
  • MERIS-based Chlorophyll and LAI products (InfoTerra Ltd)
  • De-Forestation monitoring services (DMCii)

Companies have been contacted to provide a full proposal. The second batch will include 10-12 contracts.

AO5825 – ADDRESSING NEW AND EVOLVING INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES FOR EO BASED INFORMATION SERVICES

The first group of eight contracts to be started in first quarter of 2009 includes:

  • Geo-Marketing (TeleAtlas)
  • Geo-Marketing (GIM)
  • Climate Change & Industry (Civil Engineering) (COWI)
  • Climate Change & Industry (Carbon Trading) (Hatfield)
  • Waste Management (Environmental)(ERA-MapTec)
  • Waste Management (Mining) (ViaSat Geotechnologies)
  • Insurance (Logica)
  • Agro-Chemical (Spatial Business International)

8-10 contracts will be started in the second batch.

AO 5870 – GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION FOR EUROPEAN AND CANADIAN EO SERVICES

The four selected contracts will all be starting in the first quarter of 2009:

  • Persian Gulf States / Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. (Vega Group plc)
  • South-East Asia / Indonesia and Vietnam (C-CORE)
  • North-East Asia / China (InfoTerra Gmbh)
  • North-Africa Mediterranean Coast / Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt(Indra)

There are no further contracts to be started for this ITT.

When all of these BATCH1 contracts have been successfully negotiated and started, summary information will be posted on the website.
Information on the contracts selected under BATCH2 (a further 20 contracts) will be posted here in May.
Information on the new opportunities for 2009 within the VAE program will be posted during April.

SOURCE

A Eurisy-SME Union Working Breakfast in the European Parliament

Eurisy is enlarging its User Programme to encompass small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as users of satellite based services.

Eurisy’s on-going User Programme has already achieved a high degree of success in raising the awareness of local and regional authorities of the benefits of Satellite Information and Services (SIS). In the process, Eurisy has set close partnerships with user organisations such as the Assembly of the European Regions, the Committee of Regions and others.

As more and more regions and cities gain an interest in how to use SIS, and ask our advice in implementing them, Eurisy moves towards including user SMEs in our programme of raising awareness and anchoring space in society.

The move was kicked-off during a Working Breakfast in the European Parliament, which was co-organised by the SME Union of the EPP and Eurisy. Several MEPs, representatives from the European Commission and industry welcomed the proposal by Eurisy that support mechanisms, including financing, should be implemented so that more and more SMEs can invest in and use satellite-based services.

The benefits SMEs can draw from using satellite applications were eloquently illustrated by Mr Seppo Hovi, representing Hyotypaperi, a Finnish company which recycles and sells forest residues to energy power plants. Mr Hovi highlighted how using a satellite based service (combining satellite maps and GPS) has helped improve all levels of the supply chain. Mr Hovi pointed out the considerable economic advantages obtained through the use of these innovative satellite tools.

Eurisy’s initiative for supporting users of Satellite Information and Services – be they local or regional authorities or SMEs – continues through a series of events throughout the year, the next one being an information session on EU’s broadband initiative, to be hosted by the Council of European Municipalities and Regions during their General Assembly in Malmö, this April.

We invite all satellite service providers interested in collaborating on Eurisy’s activities of promoting satellite applications to contact Teodora Secara at Teodora.Secara(at)eurisy.org

“Working Breakfast at European Parliament. L-R: Jean Bruston, Eurisy Secretary General; Seppo Hovi, Hyötypaperi; Malcolm HARBOUR, MEP; Stefan NONNEMAN, Head of Unit, Space policy and coordination, EC; Christian ROVSING, MEP”

Source EURISY

GMES needs to evolve into full operational maturity. This requires a sustainable programme including long-term funding commitment; a suitable governance structure and a specific legislative and regulatory framework.The type of governance which will be adopted might have a strong impact on the structuring and future of the industry.

We are glad to announce the high-level event on GMES Governance (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). It will take place in Brussels on Monday, 11th May 2009 with the title THE IMPACT OF GMES GOVERNANCE MODELS ON INDUSTRY and it is organised by the EARSC and EUROSPACE Associations in cooperation with the GMES Bureau and the European Economic and Social Committee, EESC.

GMES needs to evolve into full operational maturity. This requires a sustainable programme including long-term funding commitment; a suitable governance structure and a specific legislative and regulatory framework.The type of governance which will be adopted might have a strong impact on the structuring and future of the industry.

Recent challenges are to find new legislative and governance environment, new funding opportunities and to ensure appropriate business model, governance structure and longer-term financial sustainability as well as fostering downstream sector investments and pan-European level services.

This workshop will be an opportunity for all interested parties to expose possible governance models and to make a first evaluation of their impact on the industry. The presence and experience of all stakeholders is thus desirable to cover in the best way these issues in the workshop discussion. With this event Industry aims to accord recommendations of its vision on GMES Governance models.

PROGRAMME
THE IMPACT OF GMES GOVERNANCE MODELS ON INDUSTRY
MORNING
09h00 – 09h45: Registration
09h55: Opening by P. Kamoun (Eurospace WG on GMES)
10h00: Welcome by V. Moutarlier (EU – GMES Bureau)
Presentation workshop by N. Faller (EARSC) and O. Lemaitre (Eurospace)
10h15 – 11h30: SESSION 1: Governance models and Industrial Views
10h15 – 10h30 : Views from EARSC, A. Jadot
10h30 – 10h45: Views from Eurospace, J-J. Tortora
10h45 – 11h00: Perspective from EU, GMES Bureau, V. Moutarlier
11h00 – 11h15: Perspective from ESA , J. Aschbacher
11h15 – 11h30: Perspective from EUMETSAT, P. Counet
11h30 – 12h00: COFEE BREAK
12h00 – 12h30: SESSION 2: Industry Views
12h00 – 12h15: GMES Organisational and System Integration Scenarios, Z. Stott (Assimila)
12h15 – 12h30: Actual report on economy on downstream services, C. Jolly (OECD)
12h30-13h30: Round Table on Ocean-Atmosphere-Climate
Impact of GMES Governance on Space & Services Industry
Participants: C. O’Kelly (TechWorks), A. Pi-Figueroa (Starlab), A. Monsaingeon (CLS), C-A. Reix (TAS), P. Stephens (DMCii)
Moderator: C. Jacob (Eumetnet)

|13h30 – 14h30: LUNCH BREAK|

AFTERNOON
14h30 – 16h00: SESSION 3: Industry Views
14h30 – 14h45: Impact of GMES Governance models on the future of Industry, G. Deane (BOSS4GMES)
14h45 – 15h00: GMES Governance – Legal Considerations, I. Baumann (BHO-Legal)
15h00-16h00:Round Table on Land – Emergency – Security
Impact of GMES Governance on Space & Services Industry
Participants: A. Kaptein (Infoterra), F. Mastracci (Telespazio), J. Dauphin( Astrium), L. Kucera (Gisat), W. Biefermann (RapidEye) tbc, M. Bello-Mora (Deimos), C. Hoffman (Geoville-Group)
Moderator: C. Pradham (EARSC Director)
16h00-16h30:COFEE BREAK
16h30-17h30:FINAL ROUND TABLE: “The impact of GMES governance models on Industry”
Participants: J. Chenet (TAS), A. Bories (OHB), M. Tondriaux (Spot Infoterra Group), P. Norris (Logica), P. Volk (GAF), M. Gross (Eurosense Hungary)
Moderator: P. Kamoun (Eurospace WG on GMES)

REGISTRATION: MAY 11th 2009, EESC – Building VM2, rue Van Maerlant 2 – 1040, Brussels
Please note the number of seats is limited, therefore we highly recommend that you register as soon as possible. If interested send us your contact details to rosy.plet@eurospace.org
-Company/Organization:
-Name:
-Function/Title:
-Email:
-Telephone:
-Mobile:
-Fax:
-Full address:
-Country:
-Website:
-Describe participation interest at the workshop:

Venue
EESC Building: Please go to the entrance hall of building VM2 (rue Van Maerlant,2 – 1040 Brussels) Room:VM3 (second floor)
How to get to European Commission Access Commission.pdf

Logistics
When entering the building, visitors will have to mention the name of the EARSC event you are attending. You will be given a small card (called “laisser-passer”), which will allow you to access the second floor. The EESC will create the “laisser-passer” in accordance with the event (title, date, room, timing). On the second floor, the badges (and documentation) will be distributed to the attendees, outside the meeting room.

Directions
-From Airport: Brussels Airport Zaventem
-Transfer by Bus: There is a cheap (approx 3 Euros) shuttle bus (Line 12) from the airport to the City, get off at Schuman. See for further information.
-Transfer by Taxi: A taxi from the Airport takes about 10-20 minutes and costs 20-25 Euros.
-Transfer by Train: Take the shuttle from the airport to the Centre of Brussels to Central Station (Gare Centrale). The trains leave in intervals of approx. 15 minutes. Then follow the instructions from the Train Station, via the Metro to Schuman.
-From Train Station: Central Station (Gare Centrale) via Metro to Schuman: take the underground (Metro) in the direction of Stockel or Herrmann-Debroux; 5 stops on, leave the metro at Maalbeeck.

-Brussels Plan Metro BrusselsPlanMetro.pdf

Accomodation Hotels in the surrounding of European Quartier
New Hotel Charlemagne. Email.
First Euroflat Hotel. Email
Eurovillage Brussels. Email
Silken Berlaymont Brussels. Email
Crowne Plaza Europa. Email
Hotel Chelton. Email
Holiday Inn Brussels Schuman. Email
Sofitel Brussels Europe. Email

More information at:
Brussels International
Brussels Tourism Office
Book Brussels Hotels
Belgium Hospitality

Fees
There are no registration fees for this workshop

Stakeholder´s active involvement will help to discuss, with small and large industries as well as European and national institutions and users, the perspectives within GMES for the downstream services sector.

The organization should be most grateful if you would draw the attention of your colleagues and other interested parties to this workshop.

We look forward to welcoming you at the event.
Yours sincerely,
Event Organisers

Events Spring 2009


Start Date End Date Event Web Venue
31-mar-09 01-apr-09 Offshore Survey 09 web Southampton, UK
01-apr-09 01-apr-09 European Geodemographic Conference web London, UK
01-apr-09 01-apr-09 FME UK User Group web Southampton, UK
01-apr-09 02-apr-09 GEO-9 The complete GEO Event web Coventry, UK
01-apr-09 03-apr-09 The 17th annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) web Durham, UK
07-apr-09 07-apr-09 ESA investment Forum web ESA-ESTEC, The Netherlands
14-apr-09 16-apr-09 Map Middle East 2009 web Dubai, UAE
14-apr-09 19-apr-09 IGSM 2009 web Zurich, Switzerland
15-apr-09 17-apr-09 III International conference “Remote Sensing – the Synergy of High Technologies web Moscow, Russia
15-apr-09 17-apr-09 2nd International Conference: Advanced Space Technologies for the Humankind Prosperity web Dnepropetrovsk, Ukranie
15-apr-09 17-apr-09 3rd Space and Society: Space-The Human Dimension web Dnepropetrovsk, Ukranie
19-apr-09 22-apr-09 GITA’s Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference! web Tampa, U.S.A
19-apr-09 24-apr-09 European Geosciences Union, General Assembly web Vienna, Austria
21-apr-09 25-apr-09 ‘GEO- SIBERIA – 2009’ web Novosibirsk, Russia
21-apr-09 25-apr-09 ‘EXPOKOS 2009’ web Prishtina, Kosova
22-apr-09 22-apr-09 AGI Marine & Coastal Zone Event web Liverpool, UK
22-apr-09 23-apr-09 XCES, Exhibition for construction and engineering surveying web York, UK
22-apr-09 23-apr-09 Digital Documentation 2009 web Liverpool, UK
22-apr-09 25-apr-09 REAL CORP 2009 web Sitges, Spain
23-apr-09 23-apr-09 AGI Northern Group Meeting web Manchester, UK
23-apr-09 25-apr-09 14th International Scientific and Technical Conference – Geoforum 2009 web Lviv, Ukraine
26-apr-09 28-apr-09 Map Middle East:Defence Geospatial Intelligence Middle East web Dubai, UAE
27-apr-09 29-apr-09 UK Highways Asset Management 2009 web Birmingham, UK
03-may-09 08-may-09 FIG Working Week 2009 web Eilat, Israel
04-may-09 08-may-09 ISRSE-33 web Stresa, Italy
04-may-09 06-may-09 ESRI Business GIS Summit web Denver, U.S.A.
05-may-09 09-may-09 International and Interdisciplinary space-related events of the Institute of Air and Space law web McGill Univ, Canada
10-may-09 13-may-09 Defence Geospatial Intelligence Middle East web Dubai, UAE
10-may-09 10-may-09 GEOSS Workshop web Bremen, Germany
11-may-09 11-may-09 The impact of GMES models on Industry web Brussels, Belgium
11-may-09 13-may-09 Information Systems in Agriculture and Forestry web Prague, Czech Republic
14-may-09 02-jul-09 GeoDATA 2009 – hosted by Training4GIS web various, various
18-may-09 20-may-09 GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop web Ibaraki, Japan
20-may-09 22-may-09 2nd EPS/MetOp Research Announcement of Opportunity Workshop web Barcelona, Spain
21-may-09 21-may-09 BARSC Workshop:Remote Sensing in the Green Economy: Applications and Opportunities web London, UK
25-may-09 29-may-09 International Conference on Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre in XXI-th Century web Moscow, Russia
25-may-09 29-may-09 The Second International Conference on Earth Obsevation for Global Changes (EOGC2009) web Chengdu, China
28-may-09 29-may-09 International GHRSST Data Users Symposium web California, U.S.A.
31-may-09 02-may-09 Disaster Management & Crisis Response Middle East 2009 web Moscow, Russia
02-jun-09 05-jun-09 12th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science – Advances in GIScience web Hanover, Germany
02-jun-09 05-jun-09 ISPRS Hannover Workshop 2009 web Hanover, Germany
03-jun-09 04-jun-09 AIMS 2009 -5th International Symposium High Performance Mining web Aachen, Germany
05-jun-09 09-jun-09 URISA-Putting Health in Place with GIS web Providence, Rhode Island
08-jun-09 09-jun-09 GeoGathering web CO, U.S.A.
14-jun-09 19-jun-09 International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geo-Conference and Expo – SGEM web Albena, Bulgaria
15-jun-09 18-jun-09 Intergraph 2009 web Washington DC, U.S.A.
15-jun-09 19-jun-09 GSDI 11 World Conference web Rotterdam, The Netherlands
15-jun-09 21-jun-09 48th Paris Air & Space Show web Le Bourget, Paris, France
17-jun-09 19-jun-09 The British Cartographic Society’s Annual Symposium: Man At Work web Newport, UK
20-jun-09 25-jun-09 29th EARSeL Symposium “Imagin(E/G) Europe” web Chania, Greece
22-jun-09 22-jun-09 First Open Source GIS UK Conference web Nottingham, UK
24-jun-09 26-jun-09 Second Swarm International Science Meeting web Postdam, Germany
24-jun-09 26-jun-09 27th Urban data management symposium web Ljubljana, Slovenija
24-jun-09 26-jun-09 Innovative Lidar Solutions Conference web Toronto, Canada
28-jun-09 03-jul-09 Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing web Prague, Czech Republic
29-jun-09 02-jul-09 The 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2009) web Yongin, Korea
29-jun-09 03-jul-09 Cognitive Processing and Representations of Place, Space, and Time web Florence, Italy
01-jul-09 31-jul-09 TBD-Launch of ESA’s SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission, together with the microsatellite Proba-2 web Plesetsk, Rusia
01-jul-09 03-jul-09 The 9th Conference on Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques web Vienna, Austria
06-jul-09 09-jul-09 Joint International Agricultural Conference web Wageningen, Netherlands
07-jul-09 09-jul-09 GeoSpatial Africa 2009 web Johannesburg, South Africa
07-jul-09 10-jul-09 GI_Forum 2009 web Salzburg, Austria
11-jul-09 14-jul-09 2009 ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC) & ESRI Survey & Engineering GIS Summit & ESRI International User Conference web San Diego, California
13-jul-09 17-jul-09 IGARSS – 2009 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium web Cape Town, South Africa
19-jul-09 29-jul-09 IAMAS Assembly – Our Warming Planet web Montreal, Canada
20-jul-09 22-jul-09 Air Pollution 2009 web Tallin, Estonia
21-jul-09 23-jul-09 GEO Summit – Latin America web Sao Paulo, Brasil
21-jul-09 24-jul-09 6th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology – MMT2009 web Sao Paulo, Brasil
27-jul-09 31-jul-09 GeoWeb 2009 SPIE Optics + Photonics 2009 web San Diego, U.S.A.
04-aug-09 07-aug-09 10th South East Asian Survey Congress (SEASC ’09) web Bali, Indonesia
05-aug-09 07-aug-09 Nordic Surveyors Congress web Aalborg, Denmark
12-aug-09 14-aug-09 17th International Conference of Geoinformatics 2009 web Virginia, U.S.A.
18-aug-09 20-aug-09 Map Asia 2009 web Singapore, Singapore
24-aug-09 28-aug-09 True 3D in Cartography-ICA Symposium web Dresden, Germany
24-aug-09 28-aug-09 6th International Scientific Conference on Global Energy & Water Cycle web Melburne, Australia
27-aug-09 28-aug-09 GISCA’09 web Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
28-aug-09 29-aug-09 iGEOMAP2009, Urban Infrastructure and GeoInformatics SPIE Remote Sensing Symposium web Berlin, Germany
31-aug-09 04-sep-09 World Climate Conference-3 web Geneva, Switzerland
31-aug-09 04-sep-09 Geodesy for Planet Earth – IAG2009 web Buenos Aires, Argentina
03-sep-09 04-sep-09 EFI 2009 Annual Conference web Dublin, Ireland
03-sep-09 05-sep-09 CEST 2009 web Chania, Crete, Greece
07-sep-09 09-sep-09 UK Society of Cartographers Annual Summer School web Southamton, UK
07-sep-09 11-sep-09 Atmospheric Science Conference web Barcelona, Spain
09-sep-09 11-sep-09 GEOITALIA 2009, VII Italian Forum of Earth Sciences web Rimini, Italy
09-sep-09 12-sep-09 The 6th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE6) web Beijing, China
13-sep-09 19-sep-09 8th International Carbon Dioxide Conference web Jena, Germany
21-sep-09 25-sep-09 2009 ICES Annual Science Conference web Berlin, Germany
21-sep-09 25-sep-09 2009 EUMETSAT Meteorological Conference web Bath, UK
21-sep-09 25-sep-09 OceanObs’09 web Venice, Italy
22-sep-09 24-sep-09 Intergeo web Karlsruhe, Germany
23-sep-09 25-sep-09
Disaster Management 2009 web New Forest, UK
26-sep-09 26-sep-09 Exhibition at European Researchers Night web Frascati, Italy
28-sep-09 02-oct-09 2nd Advanced Training on Ocean Remote Sensing web Bergen, Norway
29-sep-09 30-oct-09 Forth European Security Research Conference (SRC09) web Stockholm, Sweden
01-oct-09 02-oct-09 First Euro-Atlantic Stakeholder Conference web Stockholm, Sweden
01-oct-09 01-oct-09 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg web Strasbourg, France
05-oct-09 08-oct-09 IXth International Scientific and Technical Conference “From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies web Attica, Greece
05-oct-09 09-oct-09 5th WMO Symposium on Data Assimilation web Melburne, Australia
05-oct-09 09-oct-09 34th Conference on Radar Meteorology web Virginia, U.S.A
07-oct-09 08-oct-09 Energy Solutions Expo 2009 web London, UK
12-oct-09 16-oct-09 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2009) web Daejeon, Korea
14-oct-09 17-oct-09 The 7th International Oil and Gas Exploration, Production web Jakarta, Indonesia
20-oct-09 23-oct-09 FOSS4G conference web Sydney, Australia
23-oct-09 25-oct-09 GEOSS Workshop XXX-Disasters Management web Kampala, Uganda
26-oct-09 30-oct-09 Africa GIS 2009 web Kampala, Uganda
10-nov-09 12-nov-09 ACQUA ALTA web Hamburg, Germany
16-nov-09 19-nov-09 ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Fall Conference web Texas, U.S.A.
18-nov-09 20-nov-09 Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science web Frascati, Italy
16-nov-09 20-nov-09 The 24th International Cartographic Conference web Santiago, Chile
01-nov-09 31-nov-09 TBD- Launch of ESA’s Cryosat-2 mission web Plesetsk, Russia
30-nov-09 11-dec-09 COP 15’, United Nations Climate Change Conference web Copenhagen, Denmark
01-dec-09 03-dec-09 Earth From Space -the Most Effective Solutions web Vatutinki Center, Russia
01-dec-09 04-dec-09 Pacific Island Countries GIS&RS User Conference 2009 web Suva,Fiji
07-dec-09 09-dec-09 Global Space Technology Forum web Dubai, U.A.E.
18-jan-10 21-jan-10 DGI web London, UK
08-mar-10 10-mar-10 GEO 2010 web Bahrain, Bahrain

Multilingual practical information and online government services for companies looking for business in another EU country. Provided jointly by the European Commission and national authorities.

The new ‘Your Europe – Business’ portal gives entrepreneurs easy access to information on doing business in other EU Member States. It has been established in close cooperation with Member States and is part of the implementation of the Small Business Act. Re-launched by European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen at the European Business Summit today, the site helps SMEs to take advantage of opportunities to trade and offer their services in the Single Market.

SOURCE

New ENVI module combines automated workflow with advanced, proven algorithms to provide ENVI users with rigorous orthorectification capabilities.

ITT Visual Information Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT), announced the release of the ENVI Orthorectification Module, a new, add-on module to ENVI, a leading software solution for processing and analyzing geospatial imagery. The new ENVI Orthorectification Module combines the advanced, rigorous model from renowned orthorectification experts, Spacemetric, with an ENVI-based automated workflow approach that steps users through the orthorectification process to geometrically correct an image to remove distortions that occur during image capture. Providing support for a wide set of both satellite and aerial sensors, the ENVI Orthorectification Module makes the complex task of orthorectifying imagery accessible to image analysts of various experience levels, while providing mathematically accurate results.

Accurate, Proven Mathematical Model
The new ENVI Orthorectification Module incorporates the mathematical model for rigorous orthorectification developed by photogrammetric experts at Spacemetric (www.spacemetric.com). Spacemetric’s engineers have worked closely with satellite providers for years to ensure their model is optimized to work with data and imagery from today’s most popular airborne and satellite sensors. The choice of leading global institutions, the Spacemetric model has proven to deliver optimized results with minimal error using GCPs and tie points.

“We are very pleased to have worked with ITT Visual Information Solutions to incorporate our tested models into the new ENVI Orthorectification Module,” said Ian Spence, sales and marketing director for Spacemetric. “With Spacemetric’s technology integrated into ENVI, geospatial imagery users – from experienced researchers and scientists to image analysts – can now deliver expert levels of accuracy in their products,”

New, Automated Workflow Integrated with ENVI Traditional methods for orthorectifying imagery often require extensive knowledge of photogrammetry and complex software systems. Now, the ENVI Orthorectification Module provides a guided workflow that steps users through a step by step process complete with an easy to use interface and instructions for orthorectifying images. To save time a new preview window allows users to set different parameters and view the results before completing the process for the entire image. Like ENVI, the module can also accessed programmatically to extend its sensor support and perform batch processing. And, because it is integrated with ENVI, results from the module can be seamlessly integrated into ENVI workflows for additional image processing and analysis.

“The ENVI Orthorectification Module was designed with both expert and non-experts in mind to allow ENVI users to quickly produce accurate orthorectification results,” explained Beau Legeer, director of product marketing for ITT Visual Information Solutions. “When combined with the additional automated workflows now available in ENVI, this new module creates a seamless, end-to-end process for exploiting imagery, guiding users through data ingest, orthorectification, and analysis,”

The ENVI Orthorectification Module is available for ENVI 4.6, recently released by ITT Visual Information Solutions. For more information, visit www.ittvis.com/envi/ortho.

About ITT Corporation
ITT Corporation is a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company operating on all seven continents in three vital markets: water and fluids management, global defense and security, and motion and flow control. With a heritage of innovation, ITT partners with its customers to deliver extraordinary solutions that create more livable environments, provide protection and safety and connect our world. Headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., the company generated 2008 sales of $11.7 billion. www.itt.com.

About ITT Visual Information Solutions
ITT Visual Information Solutions of Boulder Colorado, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, provides integrated software solutions that help scientists, engineers, researchers, and medical professionals turn complex data into useful information. The company’s 150,000 customers from more than 80 countries use IDL, ENVI and IAS to analyze data and imagery and deploy imaging applications. ITT Visual Information Solutions’ products are used in a variety of industries, including remote sensing, engineering, earth sciences, aerospace, defense and intelligence, medical imaging, oil and gas exploration and biotechnology. Combined with a host of support services including training, consulting and technical support, ITT Visual Information Solutions offers the most complete data visualization, image analysis and image delivery solutions available. For more information visit: www.ittvis.com.