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The EC has conducted the first in a series of 3 user workshops to
define initial Europe-wide pilot services within the GMES (Global
Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiative.

The EC has conducted the first in a series of 3 user workshops to define initial Europe-wide pilot services within the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiative. The Councilof the Member States has requested that a first set of widely accepted services be operational by 2008. The event on Land Monitoring, which took place in Brussels on 20 and 21 October, attracted the fullest possible range of participation with 100 representative contributors from 22 European countries and from European services themselves. User domains included environment,urban planning, mapping and surveying, agriculture, car navigation, security and others involving both, public and private service provision agencies.

Chairman Prof. Dietmar Grünreich, president of the German Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) and past president of the EurogeographicsAssociation opened the event by expressing expectations that the Land Monitoring service would bring three dimensions to meet: The first one extends between environmental and topographic standards of land inventory, the second from small (continental Europe) to large (local) scale, and the thirdone from providing access to both, original satellite images aswell as a cross-border coherent, value-added land-cover / land-use information for the various European user communities.

Participants welcomed the initiative taken by the European Unionand agreed with the two prime elements of the core service, an Earth Observation and a Land Information component. As to the first there were high expectations raised with regard to the integration of new and continuously available satellite images as well as in-situ data (the importance of the EU INSPIRE initiative was frequently stressed in this context). For the second there is rich experience available throughout Europe from the CORINE Land- Cover inventories carried out around 1990 and 2000, but requirements addressed an increase in the level of detail and accuracy as well as the updating speed, and a local complement was supportedin addition (urban areas and other “hot spots”of interest or sensitivity). Towards this end, topographic reference data (digital terrain models and object-structured landscape models) and satellite images (multispectraland radar) have to be brought together.

To enhance these requirements practical examples of customised downstream services were presented which could profit from the core service. These included environment, resources and investment management, city planning, car navigation etc. While sponsored out of ESA, EC and Member States budgets as GMES precursor projects, some of them showed already manifest user commitment in addition, such as in the development of a new planning tool for the province of Treviso/Italy becoming of relevance in meeting new legal regulations for territorial and city management.

Users emphasised the necessity to broaden further the GMES user base (from 170 to 3000 as was requested in one project) and opted, during the implementation of the pilot service, for closeinteraction between EU and Member States. The latter will, withtheir existing in-situ data and technical contributions to the work, ensure quality and efficiency. A conclusion document from the workshop, the draft of which had undergone a prior open email discussion, will be amended with the inputs received and a representative user group will follow up the implementation steps.

Press Release- WS, ENTR-H3, 26-10-05

Following one of the recommendations contained in the Communication on”
European Space Policy: Preliminary Elements” of 23 May 2005 and in
compliance with orientations of the second Space Council, the Unit in
charge of Space Policy within Directorate General Enterprise and
Industry has organised a consultation of a panel of industrialists.

The panel of industry representatives was including participants
from all types of companies: large system integrators, SMEs, operators,
service companies, added value services providers, …)
The
discussion was based on the elements listed in the Communication for
which five position papers had been prepared. These papers were
covering the following topics:
On the regulatory issues, the participants
agreed that better European regulations in fields like spectrum
allocations or delivering of licences for space-based telecommunication
systems might be necessary.
Concerning the standardisation,
recognising that many activities were already undertaken by industry,
the Commission has prepared a draft mandate which will be placed with
standardisation authorities like CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. The
participants agreed that the Commission might take measures to
streamline the standardisation process which is still felt too long and
resource consuming, and therefore not accessible to all companies,
particularly SMEs.
On the procurement policy and use of
industrial return in the ESA context, while recognising that the
current process has enabled the development of a competitive European
space industry, the Commission indicated that it would initiate an
impact study.
More info at:
Space Council
(Credits Europa)

Spacedat has been selected among a number of Italian companies as the
most innovative and technology driven company. INNOVINT which stands
for “international development of new innovative entrepreneurs” is the
name of the project in which Spacedat is taking part.

Spacedat
is a market-oriented research company using remote sensing and G.I.S
instruments, turning knowledge and technologies into products,
processes and services with increased added value.
Being based in the very south of Italy (objective 1 funding area) where
the prevailing economy focuses on agriculture, Spacedat is part of a
new reality of companies and research centres, providing innovation and
technological change, without doubt the main drivers of economic
growth. As a matter of fact, the National Nanotechnology Laboratory
(NNL), ST Microelectronics, Agilent, and Alenia Marconi Systems are
already operating in this area.
The success of the company relies on the
dynamic R&D networks and competitive costs, turning ideas into
reality, knowledge into a benefit, which may be for commercial use or
for the public good. It is important to stress that, unlike “simply
innovative” companies, applied research firms are very rare in any part
of Italy, being essential to Italy’s economy since they have shown a
remarkable capacity to sustain and reinvent themselves.
Projects like INNOVINT, whose aim is to
improve the partnership between companies from different countries,
should definitely be encourage since they support activities related to
the development and the internationalization process. Spacedat looks
forward to establish further links with private companies and research
institutions, promoting agreements, business partnerships and joint
ventures.
Contact: Via Duca degli Abruzzi 57 Lecce 73100
Tel/Fax (0039)0832308505
info@spacedat.com
(Credits Spacedat)

The Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has made Spot Image
exclusive distributor of data from the KOMPSAT-2 Earth observation
satellite except for customers from Korea, the United States and the
Middle East.

“After FORMOSAT-2, this new distribution agreement marks an
important step in the diversification of our product portfolio, which
we are expanding to supply data from partner satellites,” said Spot
Image’s Chairman and CEO Hervé Buchwalter. “It will enable us to offer
optical data at 1-metre resolution starting in 2006. This success
reaffirms the company as a leading player in the global imagery
market.”
KARI developed the KOMPSAT-2 programme in
particular to acquire very-high-resolution imagery for South Korea’s
needs in mapping, urban planning and hazard management. Developed in
close collaboration with EADS Astrium, the satellite is scheduled to
launch late this year.
As the prime contractor in charge of
Korea’s satellite programmes, KARI is pursuing an ambitious space plan:
following the KITSAT series of microsatellites (1 to 4) and the
KOMPSAT-1 Earth observation satellite, it is now preparing to launch
KOMPSAT-2.
KARI has also started the
development of KOMPSAT-3 and KOMPST-5, as the follow-on missions of
KOMPSAT-2.
It is also developing COMS-1, a communications, meteorology and
oceanography satellite, and has plans for 10 more satellites in the
pipeline for the coming decade.
As commercial operator of the SPOT
satellites, Spot Image is a one-stop shop for multisource (optical and
radar) and multiresolution (1 m to 1 km) data. As well as satellite
imagery, Spot Image supplies data reception facilities with agreements
covering reception of telemetry from a range of satellites, manages
projects calling for the provision and processing of geographic
information, and provides equipment and training services.
Headquartered in Toulouse, France, with
subsidiaries and offices in Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico,
Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, the Spot
Image group leverages a global network of ground receiving stations,
channel partners and distributors to bring geographic information
derived from satellite imagery to public- and private-sector
decision-makers worldwide.
(Credits Spot Image)
– Contact: Corporate Communications Spot Image
Phone: +33 (0)5 62 19 40 10

RSI has announced the newest release of ENVI software that brings a new
level of geospatial information technology to image analysts and remote
sensing professionals.

The ENVI 4.2 release includes powerful, new tools that deliver
innovative and superior capabilities for extracting information from
remotely sensed data and imagery.
The new ENVI Vegetation Analysis Tools
distill and simplify the use of spectral data for analyzing vegetation.
These new ENVI tools give users 27 different vegetation indices within
six major categories. In addition, they provide guided workflows for
analyzing fire fuel loads, forest health and agricultural stresses, to
quickly and easily get information for human transportation, crop
composition, forest thinning and many others.


The new ENVI Autoregistration Tool
automatically identifies tie points between two images for pixel by
pixel analysis and classification. Designed for use with images from
multiple sensors and for comparing images from different times, this
tool delivers the answers needed quickly whether they are for field
deployments or fields of study.
ENVI Geospatial Statistics Tools
include new functionality that allows ENVI users to examine spatial
dependencies among features in images and quickly and easily determine
how features are spatially related, without the need for additional
software or information.
The new ENVI Log Residuals Tool
gives users the ability to correct images for atmosphere, variations in
solar illumination, topography and instrument noise without the need
for ground-based measurements.
(Credits RSI-Inc)

The Ministry of Agriculture of Bulgaria with the support of MARS-PAC of
the Institute for Protection and Security of Citizen at the Join
Research Center started two pilot projects for the preparation of the
methodology for the creation of the Land Parcel Identification System
(LPIS). Both projects are implemented by the Remote Sensing Application
Center (ReSAC).

The LPIS pilots were defined as a base of the results of the Pilot
Study for Control with Remote Sensing of Area-Based Subsidies in
Bulgaria, financed by JRC and implemented by RESABU consortium in 2004
(ReSAC – Bulgaria, AIRECTS – France/Spain, Intelgeo – Bulgaria).
The aim of the projects is to complete
results obtained in the Pilot Study for Control with Remote Sensing in
a different context in order to define an overall strategy for BG and
to prepare technical recommendations for the Block CAPI. Another
important issue in these pilots will be to assess the situation of
agricultural areas with the consequence on eligibility.
The analysis is based on archive VHR data
from Quickbird, provided by JRC. Ref3D from SPOT Image is used for
orthorectification of the imagery. The Directorate “Land Property,
Registers and Information Technology” at the Ministry of Agriculture
provided the digital cadastre of the Municipality of Assenovgrad.
A workshop with the participation of
expert from ReSAC and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry was
organized in the beginning of September 2005 by the AGRIFISH Unit, in
the frame of its support to Candidate countries for the implementation
and control of the CAP (MARS PAC action of the JRC 6th Frame work
program).
The objectives are
- to provide a technical overview on the implementation of
the Land parcel Identification System (LPIS) and the IACS GIS
(regulation 1782/03);
- to discuss the first results of the Bulgarian pilot study
on LPIS in Assenovgrad (started in July 2005) using the satellite
imagery provided by the JRC;
- to provide recommendations for the implementation of the Bulgarian IACS-GIS.

The process of managing the aid declaration
and the control of subsidy distribution consists of different
sophisticated services and activities involving as actors both the
administration and the farmers. The IT framework will be the Integrated
Administrative Control System (IACS) and the Land Parcel Identification
System (LPIS). There is a big potential of introducing (as well as
testing) of the voice activated technology in the annual management of
the EU subsidies, which could increase the performance of the system
and guarantee the payments to farmers in due time. In particular, the
introduction of SAFIR technology should be focused on field inspections – as one of the most time-consuming activities during the campaign,
sometimes even a bottleneck of the whole process of subsidy management
and control.
The Project SAFIR is developed under the
Sixth Framework Programme of the EC and one of the project leaders is
the company Voice-Insight Ltd. from Belgium.
The Bulgarian Agriculture Pilot in the frame of FP6 IST Project SAFIR
started in the beginning of 2004 with duration of 4 years. The role of
ReSAC in SAFIR project as local partner of Vraca Regional
Administration is to identify and develop new and interesting domain in
order to prove the efficiency of the technology as well as to increase
the reach and dissemination potential of the project. The pilot was
focused in the field of agriculture, considering the importance of the
future implementation of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) in Bulgaria.
The Agriculture will be one of the most
important sectors of the Bulgarian economy after the accession of the
country in the EU. The implementation of the Common Agriculture Policy
(CAP) of the European Union will have a huge impact on citizens in
Bulgaria and will engage enormous resources of the Administration in
order to manage properly the EU subsidies.
The analysis lead to the conclusions that
the introduction of SAFIR technology in the part of field inspections
and other filed activities, complementary to the Control with Remote
Sensing will dramatically increase the performance of both LPIS and
IACS systems and help guarantee the payments to farmers in due time.
Additional benefits for the field users will be the shorter terms of
field tasks completion, the decreased expenses for staff training, the
improved accuracy of data and avoiding discrepancies in the field.
The pilot is implemented by following local
partners: ReSAC (Bulgaria), Vraca Regional Administration (Bulgaria)
and New Bulgarian Technologies (Bulgaria).
Within the frame of the SAFIR Project considering the importance of the
information related to the road infrastructure, the Bulgarian
administration is launching a project Monitoring of the road infrastructure using Remote Sensing and Voice-activated technology
implemented by ReSAC and partners for data collection using modern
technologies. The main aim of the project is the create geodatabase of
the transport corridors, using satellite data and additional field
inspections. The ordered HR and VHR satellite data from 2004 –2005,
covered 80% of the country. The data suppliers were SPOT Image (SPOT
5), EUSI (IKONOS) and Eurimage (Quickbird). The project will be
finalized in the end of 2006.
The scope of the project is to propose a
test prototype that would demonstrate the possibilities of achieving a
leapfrog improvement in the planning and monitoring of the road
infrastructure of the European transport corridors by using remote
sensing data and complementary technology called VQL. The main aim is
to complement the more traditional field inspections with satellite
monitoring of road infrastructure and voice technology to allow
collecting data on the field with high performance and reliability.
This proposal is in accordance to the following main initiatives:
- Development of the Trans-European Networks (TEN) and the introduction of the European standards in all transport sub-sectors;
- Creation of actual and reliable geodatabase for the road
network as part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure in
accordance to GMES initiatives and the directives of INSPIRE
“Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe”;
- Implementation of Decision of the Council of Ministers
No. 761 from 24.09.2004 for the establishment of common geodatabase for
territory, population and resources of Bulgaria;
These voice enabled field inspections are
necessary and complementary activity to the monitoring and data
collection of the road infrastructure using satellite images. Very
high-resolution satellite data has the ability to provide actual
information of the land cover/land use along the road. However it has a
limited resolution for capture and properly identify single objects
less than 0.6 meters. In those cases when the information from the
satellite is not enough, field inspection with voice-enabled Tablet PC,
containing images and graphical data, will provide and manage the data
in efficient and consistent manner.
This system could provide enough
information for strategic decision-making, related to the maintenance
of the road network and the financial planning for these tasks. Using
thess technologies, the creation of a dossier for the road will be much
faster and for much less budget, than the traditional surveying. In
addition the data collected on the field could be used for validation
of the result from the image interpretation.
The project is implemented by ReSAC
(Bulgaria), Voice-Insight Ltd. (Belgium), New Bulgarian Technologies
(Bulgaria) and Progeo (Bulgaria).
Voice-Insight Ltd. is positioned to become
the leader in the field of voice enablement of Data Base Management
Systems (“DBMS”). Voice-Insight’s software, VQL™ (Voice Query
Language), is a unique automatic syntax-centric technology, which
enables users directly to request and manage information from any
database application by using everyday language.
(Credits ReSAC)

Kongsberg Spacetec is awarded a contract with CLS, Collecte
Localisation Satellite, France for delivery of three multimission
ground stations capable of receiving and processing data from the NOAA
and METOP satellites.

Kongsberg Spacetec is awarded a contract with CLS, Collecte
Localisation Satellite, France for delivery of three multimission
ground stations capable of receiving and processing data from the NOAA
and METOP satellites.
The first system will delivered in 2005 and the two others in 2006.
The delivery includes three 2,4 m L-band
antennas, for the polar orbiting meteorological satellites NOAA and
METOP. Hardware and software for ingest, monitoring and control and
basic processing are also delivered.
This is a very important contract for
Kongsberg Spacetec, which shows that customers believe in our
Multimission Meos Polar systems, including the new METOP Meos system.
It also proves that our development of the Reference User Station for
EPS, for Emetsat, is very important for our customers and makes sure
that we have a state of the art system.

LogicaCMG announced that it has won a contract for the delivery and
implementation of a new Geospatial Information System (GIS) with the
Dutch multi-utility company DELTA, located in the south western
Province of Zeeland. The project has now started and is scheduled for
completion in spring 2007.

LogicaCMG announced that it has won a contract for the delivery
and implementation of a new Geospatial Information System (GIS) with
the Dutch multi-utility company DELTA, located in the south western
Province of Zeeland. The project has now started and is scheduled for
completion in spring 2007.
The new GIS will enable DELTA to optimise
the quality and lifecycle of their infrastructure and to manage their
assets at lower cost. It is vitally important for DELTA to have a GIS
which, apart from managing and providing information on the
infrastructure, is able to rapidly exchange data with other systems.
GIS helps companies such as DELTA to rapidly identify affected areas of
infrastructure during excavation work, utility breakdowns and other
maintenance projects. This allows DELTA to take the necessary measures
without delay.
Many other utilities, in the Netherlands
and elsewhere, are discovering the advantages of modern Geospatial
Information Systems for managing their infrastructure and are planning
to replace their present systems. The DELTA project is therefore of
great strategic importance for ESRI Nederland, ESRI Inc., and
LogicaCMG.
The solution for DELTA is based on the
ArcFM UT product manufactured by ESRI Inc. partner AED-SICAD based in
Munich, Germany. This is the most advanced utility GIS solution on the
market. The major advantage offered by ArcFM UT is that, in contrast to
traditional GIS solutions, it can be implemented without much
customer-specific software development. ESRI Nederland has specialist
knowledge of the multi-utility sector in combination with the most
extensive GIS platform in the world, ArcGIS. LogicaCMG has considerable
experience of implementing major projects involving GIS applications
from a variety of leading vendors for its energy, utility, public
sector and defence customers around the world.
On Geospatial Information Systems

Geo-information concerns the full range of information on objects with
a fixed place on, in, above or beneath the earth‘s surface.
Organisations using this type of information are among others
government, defence, transport and the multi-utility sector.
Ever more organisations are making use of
location-related information. Demand for the effective and efficient
processing, management, collation and analysis of such geospatial
information is growing. The possibilities for doing so have improved
greatly in recent years with the development of Geospatial Information
Systems specifically developed for the manipulation, analysis and
presentation of place-related information.
About DELTA
DELTA
is the result of a merger between the South West-Netherlands Water
Company (WMZ) and the Provincial Zeeland Energy Company (PZEM) in 1991.
Before the merger these two companies had already been operating in
Zeeland for generations. When the two companies joined DELTA started
pooling the tasks in the public utility field. In recent years DELTA
has expanded its services with the provision of Internet cable
facilities and waste processing activities.
About LogicaCMG
LogicaCMG is a major international force in
IT services and wireless telecoms. It provides management and IT
consultancy, systems integration and outsourcing services to clients
across diverse markets including telecoms, financial services, energy
and utilities, industry, distribution and transport and the public
sector. The company employs around 21,000 staff in offices across 35
countries and has more than 40 years of experience in IT services.
Headquartered in Europe, LogicaCMG is listed on both the London and
Amsterdam stock exchanges (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information
is available from www.logicacmg.com
About ESRI Nederland
Geographic information plays an important
role in analysing changes in our world. In order to understand the
changes it is vital for proper links to be established, for the
available data to be collated and for knowledge to be shared. This is
best done with the aid of a Geographic Information System (GIS). The
standard ArcGIS products of ESRI Inc. are the most complete, most
widely used and most accessible products worldwide. More information is
available on http://www.esrinl.com or on http://www.esri.com
(Credits LogicaCMG)

The Japanese geo-information provider PASCO Corporation is the first distribution partner for TerraSAR-X radar data products.

• Infoterra GmbH signs distribution agreement worth 10 Mio Euro.
• Data received by Direct Access Partner in Tokyo directly.
EADS Astrium builds German Radar Satellite – Launch scheduled for April 2006.
The
Japanese geo-information provider PASCO Corporation is the first
distribution partner for TerraSAR-X radar data products. After a first
agreement had already been reached in November of last year, Joerg
Herrmann, Managing Director of the German Infoterra GmbH and Yoichi
Sugimoto, President and CEO of PASCO, have now signed the official
contract, worth € 10 Mio.
Almost two years prior to the start of
the operative phase of the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X, PASCO has
not only secured the exclusive distribution rights for the Japanese
market as well as a substantial data contingent, but also the
opportunity to receive TerraSAR-X data directly from the satellite,
starting in late 2006 – as a Direct Access Partner.
Japan is a natural disaster prone country
and suffers from earthquakes and typhoons every year. “We have great
expectations from the capability and high resolution images of
TerraSAR-X to provide us the information and monitoring in all weather
conditions” says Yoichi Sugimoto. “Apart from the mapping and
generation of digital surface models, we will target several
applications, such as land slides, change detection, agriculture and
forestry, car navigation and others.”
„We are extremely glad to have acquired
such a renowned company as the exclusive distribution partner for the
Japanese market,” states Joerg Herrmann. “The great interest in such
partnerships, as well as the ambition of future partners to secure
their data access rights and contingents at such an early stage;
reassure us of the unique potentials TerraSAR-X has to offer.”

Surrounding the Earth on a polar orbit at an altitude of 514
kilometers, TerraSAR-X will be collecting new-quality X-band radar data
of the entire planet. The satellite will operate independent of weather
conditions, cloud coverage, and illumination and will be capable of
delivering data at a resolution up to 1 meter. TerraSAR-X, due to be
launched in the second quarter of 2006, is currently being developed by
EADS Astrium, while the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is preparing the
ground segment.
Infoterra GmbH was launched in 2001 for
the purpose of pursuing the exploitation of TerraSAR-X and will be the
only commercial provider of TerraSAR-X data worldwide. Currently, the
company is preparing the global distribution of this data, scheduled to
start in late 2006, by establishing a global partner network. Infoterra
GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of EADS Astrium, the leading European
satellite company. Infoterra has a workforce of approximately 25
employees in Friedrichshafen, Germany and is part of the European
Infoterra Global Group with companies in Germany, the UK and France.
Infoterra collects and processes data obtained from Earth observation
satellites and airborne campaigns. These tailor-made information
products can be used in agriculture and forestry, urban and regional
planning, cartography and resource management. PASCO Corporation is
based in Tokyo and provides advanced and innovative aerial
photogrammetric, survey and GIS services in Japan and around the globe,
backed by 50 years of experience since 1953. The company offers a
complete range of measurement technology, ranging from airborne to
ground and even ship-borne equipments. PASCO possesses world-leading
geomatics technological capabilities, creates new business models and
develops innovative products and services for governments and
administrative agencies, corporations and individuals (http://www.pasco.co.jp/global/english/).
EADS Astrium is Europe’s leading satellite system specialist. Its
activities cover complete civil and military telecommunications and
Earth observation systems, science and navigation programmes, and all
spacecraft avionics and equipment. EADS Astrium, wholly owned
subsidiary of EADS
SPACE, which is dedicated to providing civil and defense space systems.
In 2003 EADS SPACE had a turnover of € 2.4 billion and 12,000 employees
in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain.
EADS is a global leader in aerospace,
defense and related services. In 2003, EADS generated revenues of €
30.1 billion and employed a workforce of more than 100,000.
For further information and image material, please contact:
Infoterra GmbH Communications,
Tel.: +49-7545-8-3924
Mareike Doepke
This and other texts as well as high-resolution images may also be found at: www.terrasar.de
(Credits Terrasar)

Infoterra take delivery of new pushbroom digital camera to deliver airborne data more efficiently.

EADS Astrium, through its world leading geo-information business
Infoterra, has invested in new technology which will allow aerial
photography to be captured and delivered faster than ever before.
Unlike frame cameras, the ADS40 is able to
capture a seamless strip of digital imagery over large areas. Using a
three-line stereo sensor, the camera can simultaneously capture
red-green-blue and colour infra-red imagery, providing the rapid
production of both orthophotos and surface elevation models.
Earlier this year a trial was undertaken in England, where 1,400 square
kilometres of Berkshire was successfully captured using the ADS40. The
trial produced 16 lines of imagery that were seamlessly mosiaced into a
single image within a week. Conventional aerial data capture would have
processed approximately 1,400 individual images and would have taken
approximately six to eight weeks to complete.
Infoterra Ltd. will operate the new camera
on behalf of Infoterra Global and the data will then be processed using
the ISTAR Pixel Factory™, a highly automated production process. The
combination of the ADS40 and the ISTAR Pixel Factory will provide
customers with the rapid provision of imagery, which has already been
demonstrated in a number of projects carried out across Europe.
Applications such as land use evaluation,
habitat analysis and agricultural management will benefit from the
functionality and efficiency of the system. For example, a single
image, including infra-red data, allows vegetation discrimination both
in terms of species and health, which in valuable for monitoring
purposes. Many other applications will benefit including environmental
stewardship.
“EADS Astrium has always been at the
forefront of new technologies and this new investment in the latest
airborne digital camera means we can accurately capture large expanses
of land in a single fly-past. This fast turnaround will allow us to
make the most of weather opportunities around the world and provide
efficient data acquisition and processing to our customers” says Marc
Tondriaux, Chairman, Infoterra Global.
Tondriaux continues, “The ADS40 technology, which is more closely
related to a satellite sensor that any existing aerial photography
camera, will compliment our existing product portfolio and will help
address global monitoring environment and security applications.”
About EADS Astrium
EADS Astrium is the European leader in space activities,
with companies in France, Germany, UK and Spain. Beyond its main
activity of satellite manufacturer, which encompasses the prime
contractorship of major earth observation satellites such as SPOT,
HELIOS and TERRASAR, EADS Astrium develops geospatial applications and
services to promote the operational use of space and airborne E.O.
data. These activities are handled within its subsidiaries gathered
under the umbrella of Infoterra Global group.
About Infoterra Global
A 100% EADS Astrium company, Infoterra
Global is one of the world‘s leading suppliers of value-added products
and services derived from satellite and aerial remotely sensed data.
INFOTERRA GLOBAL group is composed of:
- Infoterra Ltd. based in Leicester and Farnborough (U.K.), a leading provider of geospatial products and services.
- Infoterra GmbH based in Friedrichshafen (Germany), the lead provider of TerraSAR-X radar satellite imagery.
-
Infoterra SAS based in Toulouse (France), an innovator in digital data
processing automation – such as the fully automated Pixel Factory
satellite and aerial data processing chain. EADS Astrium Earth
Observation, developing national spatial data infrastructures.
In addition to this, Infoterra Global,
through EADS, owns 40% of the world leading data distributor SPOT IMAGE
thus providing a unique “one-stop-shop” data service to its clients.
Infoterra Global counts amongst its clients major blue-chip companies,
as well as national and local government and international
organizations such the European Union and European Space Agency. The
group operates across a comprehensive range of thematic markets.
For more information contact
Simon Corbett, Edelman,
+44 (0) 20 7344 1349, simon.corbett@edelman.com
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(Text credits Infoterra-global. Image credits UK perspectives)