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(Jan 2009) RapidEye, Germany’s only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate their own satellite constellation, announced today that Beijing Earth Observation, Inc. (BEO), a subsidiary of Eastdawn Group. Inc., will be their Chinese distributor.


“This has promise to be a very lucrative partnership for both companies,” comments John Ahlrichs, RapidEye’s Vice President. “BEO is a proven organization with the experience required to successfully sell and support RapidEye products in China. They are extremely well networked in China’s public and private sectors.”

The agreement between Beijing Earth Observation, Inc. and RapidEye was signed in Beijing late last year between Eastdawn Group’s CEO, Mr. Bing Sun and RapidEye’s CEO, Mr. Wolfgang Biedermann. The contract makes BEO the only distributor of RapidEye’s satellite imagery in China.

“We are extremely proud to have BEO and Eastdawn as our partners in China,” says Mr. Biedermann. “We have spent a lot of time to get to know each other. With BEO we are partnering with a quality company that is a good match for RapidEye, and we are looking forward to a very long term partnership with them. BEO has shown that they have the best business backing, the strongest support staff, and that they are willing to make a significant commitment to the distribution of RapidEye’s products and services over the coming years.”

Mr. Bing Sun, CEO of Eastdawn Group. Inc. stated, “We are very much satisfied with our newly formed partnership with RapidEye. With its 5 satellites and the strongest satellite imagery collection capability to our markets, the RapidEye system has great potential in the Chinese market, especially in the following sectors: agriculture, environmental, insurance and government. We strongly believe our partnership will bring the best satellite technology available as well as service knowhow to the Chinese market. This technology and service knowhow will contribute greatly to the continuous economic growth of our country.”

About Beijing Earth Observation, Inc. (BEO)
Beijing Earth Observation, Inc. was established in early 2007 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastdawn Group. Inc., and specializes in providing data distribution services based on multiple remote sensing satellite platforms, as well as remote sensing solutions in the Chinese public and private sectors. For more information about Beijing Earth Observation, Incorporated, please visit www.bjeo.com.cn

About RapidEye AG
RapidEye is an ISO-certified geospatial information provider focused on integrating customized and industry specific solutions into the workflow of global customers in agriculture, forestry, energy, infrastructure, government, security and emergency. RapidEye experts and the satellite system – a constellation of five satellites capable of downloading over 4 million km² of high resolution, multi-spectral imagery per day, and a ground segment for processing and archiving data – allow for cost-effective customized services. The unique combination of large area coverage, high spatial resolution and the possibility of daily revisit to an area provide for superior management information solutions. Currently, more than 90 experts from more than 20 countries are employed by RapidEye, with plans to grow the team to 140 by early 2009.

_RapidEye benefits from a public-private partnership with the Space Agency of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. RapidEye is also cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). For more information on ERDF
please contact efreinfo@mw.brandenburg.de

RapidEye is a “Selected Landmark in the Land of Ideas” and therefore part of the event series “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas”. This program is run by the initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas” and Deutsche Bank. Being a “Selected Landmark” RapidEye will stand for Germany being a “Land of ideas” in 2009 and will demonstrate Germany’s spirit of innovation. The initiative is under the patronage of Germany’s federal president Horst Köhler. www.land-of-ideas.org

For more information about RapidEye, please visit www.rapideye.de

RapidEye Contact
RapidEye AG
Molkenmarkt 30, 14776 Brandenburg a. d. Havel, Germany
press@rapideye.de

Eastdawn/BEO Contact
Eastdawn Group, Inc.
10th Floor, Sinosteel Plaza, No.8 Haidian Street
Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China
Post Code: 100080
Tel: 86-10-62686799 / Fax: 86-10-62686790
Web: http://www.eastdawn.com.cn

Beijing Earth Observation, Inc.
Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China
Post Code: 100080
Tel: 86-10-82800183/84/85/86/87/88 Fax: 86-10-82800182
Web: http://www.bjeo.com.cn
E-mail: info@bjeo.com.cn

TerraSAR-X Case study

The 2008 MARS annual conference “Geomatics in support of the CAP” – the fourteenth of the series – was held in collaboration with the Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, at the Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana. The conference run over three days, from 3 to 5 December 2008.

Gisat, the national contractor for the control with remote sensing (CwRS) of area based agricultural subsidies, has presented its experiences with use of TerraSAR-X data for crop discrimination.
The presentation gave a general overview of the test case study on the use of TerraSAR-X data within CwRS, with particular emphasis on land use detection. The test performed was based on standard procedures of CwRS campaign.

The data set used in the study included TerraSAR-X SpotLite and multi-temporal TerraSAR-X StripMap in single polarisation (5th May, 18th June, 3rd September 2008). The authors presented the results of the case study that was performed in two steps: initially geometrical checks were performed and then TerraSAR-X images were used within CAPI.

Brief description of the first step included: documentation of orthorectification procedures, standard tables reporting quantitative summary of geometrical accuracy (RMS), and qualitative visual checks of the images against LPIS.

The next main part of the case study described test on TerraSAR-X multi-temporal image use within CAPI. There were defined several topics to be addressed. These include discrimination of arable crops, grassland, parcel boundaries detection and detection of non-eligible use indicating e.g. abandoned land. Test on these topics was performed by standard procedures, input and auxiliary data using dedicated software environment.

Conference Presentation

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(Dec 2008) ESA’s global land cover map, which is ten times sharper than any previous global satellite map, is now available to the public online from the GlobCover website. It is the highest resolution land cover map that has been completely validated ever released.

Sixteen experts validated the map using more than 3 000 reference land cover points and showed it had an overall accuracy of 73% weighted by area for its 22 land cover classes. The map’s legend was developed using the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Land Cover Classification System (LCCS).

The map was generated using 19 months worth of data from Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument working in Full Resolution Mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 m. Data were collected between December 2004 and June 2006.

A consortium of specialists worked to process the map, including Medias France, Germany’s Brockmann Consult and Belgium’s Université catholique de Louvain.

These data are useful for many applications, including modelling climate change extent and impacts, conserving biodiversity and managing natural resources. The map has been downloaded by more than 4 000 people since October 2008.

The GlobCover project is part of ESA’s Earth Observation Data User Element (DUE). An international network of partners has worked with ESA on the project, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), FAO, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Environmental Agency (EEA), the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Global Observations of Forest Cover and Global Observations of Land Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) Implementation Team Project Office.

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Intermap Technologies announced that its NEXTMap® Europe program reached another significant milestone in December by making elevation data for the entire country of France commercially available.

For the first time, uniformly accurate 3D digital elevation models and high-resolution orthorectified radar images are available for the largest country (551,695 square kilometers) in the European Union. France joins Germany, Great Britain, and Luxembourg as complete European countries benefitting from Intermap’s elevation models and images. Intermap now offers clients more than 1.2 million square kilometers of European data – representing 50% of the NEXTMap Europe initiative that already includes the above mentioned full country datasets and portions of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. NEXTMap datasets include digital surface models (1 meter or better vertical accuracy) that depict the earth’s surface (including cultural features such as vegetation, buildings, and roads), digital terrain models displaying the bare earth (with all cultural features digitally removed), and orthorectified radar images corrected to remove normal geometric distortions (grayscale and color images that accentuate topographic features).

“Intermap is on track to deliver on its commitment to provide users across Europe with a consistent, accurate, and up-to-date geospatial dataset that can help meet the insurance risk assessment, energy development, resource management, and other environmental challenges facing many EU nations,” said Brian Bullock, Intermap Technologies’ president and chief executive officer. “Moreover, the completion of each new countrywide dataset enables additional cross-border applications and collaboration across the region – a collaboration that was nearly impossible prior to our NEXTMap Europe initiative.”

Over the coming months, the Company will continue adding entire country datasets to the NEXTMap Europe library until the completion of its NEXTMap Europe program. Data is currently available through the Company’s direct sales team, online via www.TerrainOnDemand, or through Intermap’s worldwide partner network.

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May 2009, Brussels

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 value-added industry. 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 our members is thus desirable to cover in the best way these issues in the workshop discussions

Mid May 2009, Brussels
More information will be posted at EARSC website in the coming months

A profile of the activities of Brockmann Consult, Germany

Founded in 1999, Brockmann Consult (BC) is a private company offering scientific consultancy and environmental informatics services. The company is actively involved in the development of software for Earth Observation data management and its processing. BC is lead by Dr. Carsten Brockmann, a physical oceanographer, who is working for more than 20 years in optical remote sensing and software development. The company at present employs 20 scientists and engineers of various nationalities and whose expertise range from software engineering, including database design, physics and mathematics, biological and environmental sciences.

The activities of BC encompass the entire spectrum of Earth Observation data products and procedures extending from the reception of data, to archiving and to the processing and distribution of value added EO data products. To this end BC has developed customer-specific archiving systems, software systems as well as automated processing chains. The products and services are provided to the customer in a standardised and individualised manner.

Beginning with the low-level data, MERCI has been developed to manage and process MERIS data regardless of the data volume and regardless of the storage media. The specific strength of MERCI is the support of online storage, either partly or for the complete archive to be managed. MERCI provides all functions for data acquisition, product registration quality control, product query, child product generation and dissemination. The web interface of MERCI makes your data accessible from any place in the world.

Of course most customers require a certain added value or processing of EO data and in this regard, one of the most successful activities of Brockmann Consult is the development of BEAM, an Earth Observation data processing and analysis software on behalf of ESA. BEAM is a collection of tools for visualisation, interpretation, conversion and processing of optical and radar EO data. The success of this open source BEAM software is based on the deep involvement of the company itself in the development, verification and validation of the operational MERIS processor.

Several other important applications have emerged which are being facilitated by the BEAM programming interface. A good example of such an application is the development of data processors in BEAM for the generation of synergistic products from MERIS and AATSR data, including aerosol retrieval, cloud cover and atmospheric correction over land. Other examples include the development of data processors for estimating sun glint and oxygen parameters using MERIS and AATSR data. The Globcover and AlbedoMap processor performs land Atmospheric Correction and provides land surface parameters. Data processing systems (e.g. MAPP, Case2Regional, Albedomap, Globcover preprocessing system, Globcolour tools etc.) have all been developed specifically for earth observation data, and includes also algorithm development, implementation and validation. A sound scientific knowledge is also required to assure the accuracy and reliability of such processors and this is also being provided by BC.

BEAM VISAT User Interface for analysing Earth Observation data

The second major cornerstone of BC are the Geoinformation Services which provide value-added products and thematic information derived from Earth Observation data, including also scientific consultancy for environmental matters. Services are provided for operational marine and environmental monitoring serving both the public and private sectors. The products and services provided are and will be applicable to coastal monitoring, weather and ocean state forecasting, shipping (including ballast water), wind-park planning and fish farming. Present activities are driven largely, but not solely, by the requirements of various EU Directives including, for example, the European Maritime Strategy, Bonn Agreement, Water Framework Directive and Natura 2000. BC is also engaged with individual questions and problems arising from the scientific community. Products offered by BC range from mosaics of satellite images to qualitative and quantitative information concerning our environment which have been derived from different data sources. BC also has a very close cooperation with environmental monitoring agencies and research institutes. With the goal of connecting the requirements and expertise of EO data users and EO data experts, BC has established the Working Group on Coastal Remote Sensing in Germany

One of the main service systems developed by BC is the so-called Water Quality Service System (WAQSS), which was partly funded by the GMES MarCoast project. WAQSS is presently providing satellite-derived information for coastal waters and intertidal flats to customers around the North and Baltic Seas. Data management systems for environmental data have been developed by BC including systems for the LOICZ project office, regional environmental agencies and National Park authorities in Germany as well as management systems for nuclear power reactors.

The following provides an overview of some key projects which have been undertaken in the last while by Brockmann Consult.

ESA-BEAM

Earth Observation Product visualisation, conversion, analysis and processing package, developed on behalf of ESA. Including extensions such as, for example, the AlbedoMap processor, the Chris/Proba Toolbox and the Case2Regional Processor as well as the Globcolour tools. (see also: http://www.brockmann-consult.de/beam/ )

MERCI

Catalogue and Inventory software system for managing EO data. MERCI has been developed to manage and process MERIS data regardless of the data volume and regardless of the storage media. The specific strength of MERCI is the support of online storage, either partly or for the complete archive to be managed. MERCI provides all functions for data acquisition, product registration quality control, product query, child product generation and dissemination. The web interface of MERCI makes your data accessible from any place in the world.

GSE-Marcoast

Brockmann Consult acts as Service Provider and is leading the Validation Bureau of the GMES project MarCoast (Marine & Coastal Environmental Information Services) delivers satellite-based services in the field of marine and coastal applications. Services integrate detection and monitoring technologies involved in water quality, oil spill and meteorological information into a durable network. (see also: http://www.gmes-marcoast.com/ and http://www.brockmann-consult.de/waqss/ )

OFEW

Within the OFEW project a standardized classification method for remote sensing data of intertidal flats has been developed. Different surface types such as sediment types, macrophytes and mussel beds can be spectrally differentiated and therefore be classified from optical remote sensing data. First steps have been made to integrate this application into the operational monitoring programmes. The project has been co-funded by the ministries for the Environment of Schleswig Holstein and Lower Saxony. (see also: http://www.brockmann-consult.de/ofew /)

DeMarine

Is the Germany national contribution to marine GMES services. BC is leading the subproject on monitoring of intertidal flats and contributing to the development and service delivery of ocean colour products for the coastal zone. Further, BC is supporting the project coordination, e.g. by implementing and maintaining the DeMarine Web portal.

GlobCover

The objective of the GLOBCOVER / ESA initiative was to develop a service for a global land-cover map for the year 2005-2006, using the fine resolution (300 m) mode data acquired over the full year 2005 by the MERIS sensor on-board the ENVISAT satellite. A regionally-tuned classification and the calibration/validation of the classification by a team of regional experts in land cover characteristics assures the generation of an accurate global land cover map. Our role was to develop the prototype of the pre-processing chain as well as performing the pre-processing to the whole data set. (see also: http://www.brockmann-consult.de/GLOBCOVER/index.htm )

Globcolour

The GlobColour project is demonstrating an EO based service supporting global ocean carbon cycle research and operational oceanography. It has been initiated and funded by the ESA Data User Element. In order to cover the long time span necessary for climate monitoring purposes, the required ocean colour data set can only be built by merging together observations made with different satellite systems. Brockmann Consult has been responsible for the a Software development plan, architecture and detailed design of the processor, coordination of software verification activities as well as for the website design and development. (see also: http://www.globcolour.info/ )

CEOS Cal/Val-Portal

The CEOS/GEO Cal/Val Portal is an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the Committee on Earth Observation Systems (CEOS) and the Group on Earth Observation (GEO). ESA has awarded the contract to develop and maintain the portal to Brockmann Consult. The overall objective of the portal is the provision of satellite and correlative data over selected and agreed international sites, used for calibration and validation. This is accompanied by relevant methodological and instrument documentation. The portal comprises infrared and visible optical sensors (IVOS) as well as SAR, microwave and other GEO relevant instruments. The latter group of sensors will be expanded significantly in the near future, e.g. through the ESA SMOS mission. (see also: http://www.brockmann-consult.de/CalValPortal/welcome.do )

MERIS-AATSR

Synergy products processor for cloud identification and aerosol retrieval over land

MERIS and AATSR Quality Working Groups

Since 1995 BC is member of the ESL team defining and developing the MERIS prototype processor and since 2002 member of the MERIS Data Quality Working Group. Carsten Brockmann is consultant to the AATSR QWG since 2006.

GSE Respond

Respond (ESA GSE Project) is an alliance of European and International organisations working with the humanitarian community to improve access to maps, satellite imagery and geographic information. Brockmann Consult is member of the consortium and consultant on medium resolution satellite images. (see also: http://www.respond-int.org/respondlive/ )

Lakes Processor Development

The goal of the project is to develop a software processor as a plug-in module for the BEAM toolbox that can be used by the user community with MERIS data to estimate water quality parameters in inland waters

Case2Regional

Development and implementation of advanced MERIS water quality and atmosperic correction processing.

ICOL

BEAM processor and adjacency effect correction.

Albedo Map

This projects aims at producing global monthly maps of spectral and broadband albedo from MERIS data at a spatial resolution of 0.05 degrees and 1km. (see also: http://www.brockmann-consult.de/albedomap/ )

The Brockmann Consult Team

More information
Desmond Murphy (desmond.murphy@brockmann-consult.de)
www.brockmann-consult.de

Written by Matt Ball V1 Magazine

There are an increasing number of demands from various market sectors in response to plans for economic stimulus. Figures have been floated by the incoming Obama administration for $800 billion to be spent on infrastructure, health care, energy efficiency, and other priorities. Companies everywhere are eager to get a piece of the action, and the markets are responding to this potential windfall by rewarding the companies that stand to benefit most with increased share prices.

The United States isn’t the only country planning to invest internally in order to improve unemployment figures and economic growth. The influx of funds is global, and much of the spending will take place in sectors that currently use, or could benefit from, geospatial technology.

While there will likely be many opportunities for geospatial work, the question is whether that work will lead to innovation in new tools and approaches that benefit the geospatial market as a whole. My feeling is that the level of spending has some definite possibility to spark innovation, but the impetus for innovation will need to come in the form of regulation, enhanced competition or both.

Infrastructure

The level of infrastructure spending that is planned could provide some much-needed incentive for more streamlined planning and building processes. The federal government has been a leader in adopting Building Information Modeling, a form of intelligent and collaborative model-based design, because the bottom line benefits are so easily documented with increased collaboration and tighter construction timelines.

Geospatial technology provides a necessary decision support tool for infrastructure initiatives of larger geographies, such as roads, bridges and railways. The toolset can also provide a means of assessing infrastructure priorities, and making certain that spending is funneled to the highest impact projects.

With infrastructure spending, comes a need for coordinated teams of construction and engineering professionals as well as inspection and government oversight. Any tools that help streamline and improve upon this process stand to benefit, and there are a great many necessary innovations to improve the old and inefficient methods. While there’s some move afoot to streamline these processes, a huge spend by government could create the necessary impetus for a broad cultural shift if compliance to model-based design is mandated in order to win contracts.

Oversight and Transparency

Transparency of government decisions is going to be an overriding theme under the Obama administration. This new administration embraced Internet technology in the presidential campaign and pushed its limits with social networking and real-time systems. This strong understanding of the power and utility of the Internet will translate into more place-based tools and maps as interfaces to government data.

The commitment to accountability, and a new standard of ethics, point to greater use of Web tools throughout government. Geospatial technology can act as an integrative force between disparate systems in order to offer much needed insight. The move toward more equitable funding efforts that eliminate earmarks will require other means of evaluating and overseeing an equitable division of taxpayer dollars.

The strong move in the geospatial community to more open and flexible web-based mapping platforms will fuel a number of new portals and systems. The ongoing investment in web-based mapping platforms will pay off in this environment of new government communications. There’s strong opportunity for innovations to make these tools easier to implement and deploy, and to scale these tools to address the needs of all citizens.

Repeat of Recent History?

When the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq got underway, there was a strong interest in the use of geospatial tools for war fighting and intelligence gathering. The military investment dollars transformed the geospatial industry with the new term geospatial intelligence to rally around. A number of companies completely transformed their focus, following the dollars to a good deal of success.

The influx of military dollars were funneled into a number of geospatial technologies. Innovations were made in the way geospatial data is fused to form intelligence, in how imagery is delivered, in visualization tools that closely replicate reality, and in new mobile technologies to assist soldiers, and many others. This influx of military spending influx is a good model for what may soon occur.

I anticipate a similar transformation as the infrastructure and government transparency initiatives get underway. The geospatial community is well poised to contribute a great deal toward more efficient government operations. We need to continue to trump the cost-savings of applying geospatial tools to complex problems that require great oversight. Dollars and subsequent innovation will follow.

Editor’s Note: The Perspectives column takes a new format this year. Rather than a column from each editor every week, we’ll be taking turns each week in order to expand our focus on emerging opportunities in the energy sector. From time to time we’ll both weigh in on the same subject when there are distinct North American vs. European perspectives, and we’d like to open up opportunities for others to write in this space as well.

V1 magazine

(Jan 2009) Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said on Monday it had received an order from South Korea’s aerospace agency to launch one if its satellites, marking the first time a Japanese rocket will carry a foreign satellite.


The launch of South Korea’s KOMPSAT-3 satellite, designed to take images of the Earth, will be in Japan in 2011 or 2012, Mitsubishi Heavy (7011.T), the country’s biggest machinery maker, said in a statement.

The deal was announced during a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso to South Korea.

South Korea, which is trying to develop its own rockets, has previously used a private firm in Russia for a satellite launch.

Mitsubishi Heavy, which took over the production and management of the H2-A rocket from Japan’s space agency in 2007, has only launched government satellites. Out of the 14 launches, 13 have succeeded, Mitsubishi said.

Japan’s space programme has struggled after launch failures. In 2003, it had to destroy an H2-A rocket carrying two spy satellites.

A spokesman for Mitsubishi Heavy in Tokyo declined to comment on how much the firm charged for the launch. Japan’s Jiji news agency had reported last year that the launch may cost around 9 billion yen ($99.91 million). [ID:nT253509] ($1=90.08 Yen) (Reporting by Yoko Kubota and Jon Herskovitz)

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The latest information about the Commercial Satellite Industry

WALPHOT is participating in LIMES (Land and Sea Integrated Monitoring for European Security), where it developed new EO services for unregulated land border monitoring and land border management. WALPHOT developed a change detection service using TerraSAR-X SpotLight scenes and successfully demonstrated its performance for a test area along the Polish-Ukrainian border.

LIMES is a GMES project and part of the FP6-program. It focuses on the development of applications and services related to security, applying innovative solutions based on Earth Observation systems and satellite communication and positioning technologies. The services in LIMES are clustered in three groups: Maritime surveillance, Land and infrastructure surveillance and Humanitarian Relief and Construction.

In the second cluster, WALPHOT works together with THALES and SRC (Polish Space Research Centre) on the research, development and integration of EO services in land border monitoring and management. Extensive research is being done to identify the role of satellite-based EO applications in a European integrated border control system.
After several consultations with end-users from the local (border guards) to the super-national level (FRONTEX), the Land Border Monitoring team developed three services.

Service 1: Update and enrichment of cartographic data using VHR optical satellite data
Service 2: EO-based fastest route calculation and accessibility maps
Service 3: VHR SAR change detection

Figure 1: Demonstration area (pink) is part of the border area between Poland and Ukraine.

The emphasis in service 1 lies on the harmonization of cross-border data. At many borders there is a lack of harmonized data covering both sides of the border. Updating existing data sources with one harmonized data source (EO data) tackles the problem of data inconsistency in these areas. Service 2 supports the border guards in the dispatching of their troops, as well as giving them an estimation of the travelling time of trespassers after border alert. In service 3, WALPHOT used TerraSAR-X data to detect changes up to the size of single trees. The active SAR sensor makes this service functional at all weather conditions, insensitive of day or night conditions. These small types of changes can be an indication for increased border activities at unmanned border areas between border crossing points.

Figure 2: Two examples of detected changes on the TerraSAR-X scenes (resolution: 0.5m)

Prototype products for all three services have been developed for a part of the Polish-Ukrainian border area (see figure 1). The results have been presented during a demonstration in Warsaw in September 2008, which was attended by different users (FRONTEX, border guards,…).

As partners EUROSENSE and WALPHOT are continuing their work in the security domain. WALPHOT is currently active in 3WSA (Wallonia World Wide Space Applications, Walloon Region), where it is contributing to an EO-based monitoring system for industrial crises.

EUROSENSE will take part in the development/integration of EO services for the monitoring of regional crises outside the EU in the G-MOSAIC project (Gmes Services for Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for regional Crises, EC-FP7-Space). By using its built-up know-how in both aerial and satellite processing, EUROSENSE is also preparing the future for the operational use of Unmanned Air Vehicles in WIMA²S (Wide Maritime Area Airborne Surveillance, EC-FP7-Security). Finally, EUROSENSE is also active in the GLOBE project, where the objective is to provide a roadmap describing the way to a global border environment taking current and future systems in account.

More information
LIMES website

Contact

EUROSENSE
Nerviërslaan, 54
B-1780 Wemmel, Belgium
Tel.: +32 (0)2 460 70 00
Fax: +32 (0)2 460 49 58
Email: info@eurosense.com

WALPHOT
Rue Van Opré, 97
B-5100 Namur, Belgium
Tel.: +32 (0)81 30 24 01
Fax.: +32 (0)81 30 41 67
Email: info@walphot.com

Moving Forward to Strengthen the Geoinformation Services Business

- The opening for the first time of an EARSC office in Brussels to serve our Members. The association is evolving at the forefront of lobbying activities with European Institutions. Brussels is a central hub for stakeholders and our new office will place us directly on their doorstep, enabling us to develop our services together with their ever-evolving needs.

EARSC Office Avenue Boileau 16, Bruxelles

EARSC Secretariat

Moving Forward to Strengthen the Geoinformation Services Business