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In the last ELAN Network Membership Committee celebrated in December 2016, EARSC was accepted as member of ELAN Network.

EARSC, as an industry representative body, seeks to develop initiatives to help the sector get better access to markets outside of Europe. EARSC is willing to develop synergies to facilitate the entry of EO services SMEs in Latin American markets, thereby promoting technology transfer to new geographical markets. Due to the extensive network of partners in specific Latin American countries, ELAN has the potential to help EARSC find the right interlocuters and will help to capture the specific needs of the end-users in the countries where SMEs want to expand.

What type of network is ELAN Network?

A Triple Helix network composed of proactive and participative intermediary organisations that create multiplier alliances between agents of the ecosystem, in order to strengthen their ties and abilities to support SMEs in the development of TBBOs between EU and LAC.

  • Business Support Organisations: chambers of commerce, clusters, incubators & other entrepreneur support organisations, etc. that work with SMEs in various different domains: innovation, internationalisation, competitiveness, entrepreneurship…
  • Knowledge and Technology based Organisations: universities, technology and innovation centres, etc.  with an ability and interest in identifying the best ideas, in order to transform them into business.
  • Public Sector Actors: internationalisation and/or innovation promotion agencies, regional development agencies, etc. drivers of the innovation ecosystem in their territories and owners of programmes and policies that support the generation of business opportunities.

Watch this video to have a better overview of the ELAN Network activities:

What are the events planned for 2017?

The ELAN Network will organise 7 events this year, one in each country: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru.These events will focus on generating technology based business opportunities (TBBO) between EU and LAC companies (in particular SMEs) and supporting these opportunities mature and grow to become business success stories.

Some are of particular interest to our community:

  • 4-5 July, Lima, Peru: Technological solutions for an integral urban growth
  • 18-19 October, Santiago, Chile: Technologies and Business Models for the Energy Challenges of the 21st Century
  • 13-14 November, Bogota, Colombia: Event around ICT coordinated with 20th TCI Global Conference.

The ELAN Network issued an invitation to European companies interested in doing technological based business with Latin-American companies. You can send them your interest in a particular event, sector or country using this form.
More information on the ELAN Network events

The 2nd International Conference on GIS and Remote Sensing will be held on July 20-21, 2017 Munich, Germany.

The theme of the GIS Congress 2017 is “Innovation of Spatial Data Infrastructure for Sustainable Development”. The conference strives to accumulate specialists and pioneers from across the globe in order to counter the economic under-evaluation Geologists may face in their practice. Several eminent researchers and speakers will present their outlook and advice, the venue of the event has been selected after much research to assure that the event is being held in one of the hotspots for the concerned field, therefore attendance is expected to be astounding, both in quality and quantity. The conference will not only feature recent findings from leading industrial and academic experts in the field of GIS & Remote Sensing, in the form of lectures and posters but provide a platform to experts as well.

More information at the Conference website

(Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 15, 2017) Sinergise has launched a free satellite imagery visualisation tool – EO Browser – developed in close cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA). EO Browser has been launched at the World Cover conference at ESA, ESRIN in Frascati, Italy.

Sinergise Ltd., a GIS company building advanced solutions for management of spatial data, is launching a free satellite imagery visualisation tool – EO Browser – bringing a possibility to easily search and study vast amount of archive and fresh satellite imagery residing in the cloud – Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3, European Space Agency’s (ESA) archive of Landsat 5, 7 and 8, global coverage of Landsat 8, and Proba-V products. All of these are available in one place for the first time, providing a full resolution insight into more than 30 years of changes in Europe and several years worldwide. Everyone can find a relevant scene everywhere on the Earth and dive in the details in a matter of seconds.

EO Browser is an easy to use web application, publically available with no registration needed to access standard functions. It combines many remarkable features such as comparison of data to easily identify changes, various visualisation options (true color, false color, NDVI, etc.), custom band combinations and even some data processing mechanisms, allowing users to run classification scripts. It is a perfect tool to find relevant satellite images and prototype various pixel-based algorithms. It provides a possibility to pin the layers and locations, making it easy to resume research at a later stage. Leeway to export data processing results in georeferenced files and store algorithms is offered to registered users.

Instant access to browse through petabytes of newest and archive data and chronological comparison of full resolution images from the data sources mentioned above raises Earth observation to a completely new level. One simply goes to the area of interest, define search criteria such as time range and cloud coverage, and inspects the resulting data from different sources.


Durrat Al Bahrain, Bahrain – The user can apply different pre-installed and custom spectral band combinations to highlight and visualise any data type on the image. Different variety of bands are useful in agriculture, vegetation studies, maritime monitoring and analysis, natural disasters management and more.

Expert users, who would like to get earth observation data in their own GIS environment, can make use of Sentinel Hub OGC services.

With EO Browser, which offers all ESA optical missions in one place, there is no need to download, archive and process petabytes of data as desired result can be shown immediately in the browser or within your own GIS environment. Recently integrated Sentinel-3 mission made it possible to combine Sentinel-2 with a bit less detailed but higher frequency data – at European latitudes it is possible to get a new image almost every day.

“A revolution is happening in Earth Observation. With enormous amount of data being available, large part of it free, there are unlimited possibilities out there to address various user cases. EO Browser, built on the top of Sentinel Hub, represents a part of this process, but there is a lot more to be done.” said Grega Milcinski, managing director at Sinergise. A front-end application is an open source so anyone can take it and build added value services on top of Sentinel Hub OGC services.

Data Scientists, Software Developers and GIS Engineers at Sinergise developed EO Browser in close cooperation with ESA. It was launched at the World Cover conference at ESA, ESRIN in Frascati, Italy on March 16, 2017.

Try EO Browser yourself or contact the team for more details!

(Munich, 21/02/17) The Munich-based company has been awarded another major supply contract for VHR satellite data and services to support checks within the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

European Space Imaging announced today that the company has signed a multi-year framework supply contract with the European Commission for the provision of very high-resolution (VHR) satellite data and associated services in support of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

This third exclusive framework agreement between the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and European Space Imaging (EUSI) covers imagery from the most advanced fleet of VHR satellites and grants the JRC and the EU Member States access to imagery of the highest spatial and spectral resolution currently commercially available. The contract has an estimated total value of 38 million EUR over a period of up to 4 years and will be carried out by European Space Imaging its technology partner GAF AG and in close cooperation with the satellite operators DigitalGlobe and SI Imaging Services.

European Space Imaging will be responsible for providing satellite imagery and associated services directly to the European Union Member States for the Control with Remote Sensing (CwRS) and Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) quality assessment of the CAP. The company will be managing all activities from satellite acquisition planning through to the final imagery delivery, including liaison with all stakeholders involved on EU and national level.

European Space Imaging has been the most reliable VHR imagery supplier to the European Commission in the Controls with Remote Sensing (CwRS) program and has delivered the bulk of the data for a yearly increasing number of control sites since the VHR program’s inception in 2004. The company operates its own satellite ground station with direct access to the leading constellation of five VHR satellites.

“Our efficiency and set-up allows us to support large and complex European programs such as CwRS. I want to thank our specialized teams and dedicated partners for their great achievement. We keep expanding our capacities to continue offering the best quality and service in the market. Again, in 2017, our company will make a multi-million Euro investment in improving our ground infrastructure technology and hiring additional staff,” says Adrian Zevenbergen, Managing Director of European Space Imaging.

About CwRS:

Since 1993, the European Commission (EC) has promoted the use of “Controls with Remote Sensing” (CwRS) as a system to control agricultural subsidies granted under the EC’s Common Agricultural Policy. Following the real time evaluation in 2003 and the successful operational application since 2004, the EC’s Joint Research Centre (Director General (DG) JRC), in agreement with DG AGRI, provides VHR satellite remote sensing data to the EU Member States (MS) administrations for their CwRS area-based subsidies.

Since 2010, VHR Imagery acquired under the CwRS campaign has also been used for the quality assessment of the Land Parcel Identification System – which is the main geo-database in the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS – the main administration tool for managing of farmers’ applications).

The DG JRC provides technical guidance regarding the CwRS strategy as well as managing the image acquisition, ordering and communication with the MS administrations and image providers. Also, in close cooperation with the MS, it supports the definition of the imagery required. Satellite imagery is acquired through third party suppliers selected by the DG JRC like European Space Imaging who has been a key third party imagery supplier to these campaigns since the programs’ inception.

About European Space Imaging

European Space Imaging (EUSI) is the ‘go to’ company in Europe if you are looking for very high-resolution satellite data. Their current ’best’ offering is 30 cm data from the DigitalGlobe WorldView-3 satellite.
EUSI also operates a multi-mission ground station to provide direct satellite tasking. This enables optimized image collection strategies, flexibility and real-time weather assessments for new collections.
With a reputation for expert and personalized customer service EUSI has been providing tailored VHR imagery solutions from their Munich headquarters to meet the diverse project requirements of their customer base since 2002.

For more information please contact:

Penelope Richardson, Marketing Manager
European Space Imaging
Arnulfstrasse 199, Munich 80634
Tel: +49 (0) 89 1301420
Fax: +49 (0) 89 13014222

A debate that always rears its head in the world of software developers and software users is the constant comparison and contrasting of commercial and open source software. Like all things in life, they both have their advantages and disadvantages. It is up to the user to determine what suits him/her. However, it is not such an easy decision to make.

Narrowing it down, experts and individuals who use GIS software are also in this dilemma. Most open source and commercial software share so much in common that it is difficult to really differentiate them. The only crystal clear difference is the licensing fee. Beyond that, there are other points to keep in mind about commercial and open source software. This write-up intends to shed light on those points. However, if you are a newbie in the world of software development, and these terms seems alien to you, here is a quick overview.

Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available by the developer to everybody to study, change, modify, enhance and distribute. On the other hand, commercial software has source code that only the person, team, or organization that created it can edit, inspect, change and enhance it. They maintain exclusive right over it. It is also called proprietary or closed source software. A notable example is Microsoft word.

With this in mind, let us compare commercial and open source GIS software from various standpoints:

1. MARKETING STRATEGIES
The marketing strategies of open source and commercial software differ significantly. The developers of commercial software use strategies such as sales team, paid advert, marketing teams and search engines (SEO). In other words, their marketing strategies is an individual effort and team effort which are mostly paid for. On the other hand, developers of open source software rely mostly on individual efforts like viral marketing (word of mouth) and search engine (SEO). It is rarely paid for and most individuals participate on pro bono basis. We conclude that commercial GIS software has more sophisticated marketing strategies.

2. PRICING
Many commercial GIS software are quite expensive. It costs thousands of dollars on initial purchase. This does not include the yearly maintenance fee. While for open source software, it is the completely opposite. Open source software is completely free on the initial download and no licensing fee or maintenance fee. The no cost tag of open source GIS software gives it an edge over commercial GIS software in the market.

3. QUALITY OF SUPPORT
Since most commercial GIS software is owned and distributed by reputable software development companies, they do everything possible to give users the value of their money. To achieve that, the quality of their customer support is top notch. They have excellent technical support to guide users on the use of the software and also to assist in case any problem pops up. This includes sound FAQ sections, to email assistance, to over-the-phone inquiries. For open source software, the quality of support is inferior compared to commercial software. What you get is individual support in the form of blog posts, forums and youtube videos. Online support for open source GIS software is not definite and structured. The support provided is in most cases unsatisfactory and inconsistent.

4. FLEXIBILITY
Commercial GIS software possesses excellent spatial analysis tool and geoprocessing functionality. However, though it is enriched with top notch tools for analysis, it is not flexible. By flexibility, we editing and upgrading the software to suit your needs. For instance, if an analyst needs a feature that the software does not possess, he/she will have to wait until it is added by the owners of the software. This hinders creativity, flexibility and innovation. On the other hand, it is the complete opposite for open source GIS software. An analyst using open source GIS software can add features not existing in the software. He is not dependent on a third party. It gives room for creativity and flexibility.

5. USER-FRIENDLY
Commercial GIS software is equipped with diverse arrays of mapping tools for quick and efficient analysis. The analyst is also welcomed with an easy to interfaces for each tool geospatial tools. Commercial GIS software is more suitable for newbies finding their feet in geospatial analysis. For open-source GIS software, it is not so easy. Though they possess quality geospatial tools, it is difficult to for analysts to use optimally at first. Open source GIS software is more suitable for seasoned professionals in the field of geospatial analysis. It is not ideal for newbies or amateurs, or else a poor analysis will be conducted.

6. SIMPLICITY
Commercial GIS software is all about simplicity and ease of work. From network analysis, to land analysis, commercial GIS software carries out these tasks with ease. It turns an herculean task into a walk in park. For open source software, though it does not add to the complexities of the task, it does not really provide much to make analysis easier. It leaves the analyst in the cold.

7. CUSTOMER BASE
Commercial GIS software and Open source GIS software have its customer base or users. Each has its own customers. However, what differs is the modus operandi chosen to develop their customer base. For commercial software, their customer base consists of rich clients and customers with difficulties no other person can solve. For open source on the other hand, the customer base consists of genius users that can help expand the frontiers of the software functionality and users that provide monetary donations.

8. FUNDING
The source of funds for both parties is different. Most times, open source GIS software relies on donations. Donations are the major source of fund for open source software. Other sources of funds include consulting sales and Software as a service / Hosting. While commercial software also its own unique source of funds. It includes: product sales product licenses, product renewals, software as service / hosting and consulting sales. It is important to remember that commercial GIS software owners have a wider source of funds that open GIS software. It is also more consistent than open source software.

9. APP DEVELOPMENT
Though both of them are active in the development of GIS apps, open source software leads the way. Open source GIS software apps are cheap, develop by an analyst to meet their specific needs and most importantly, there is no headache of licensing fee. For commercial software, the apps developed are expensive and licensing fee is also included. Because of this, its apps are not as popular as the ones developed by its open source counterparts.

10. OTHER BENEFITS
Apart from the monetary gains both parties benefits; they also share similar non-monetary benefits. Such as fame and joy from putting a smile on others face. We can say this is one thing they share in common apart from geospatial tools. They enjoy creating and recreating GIS Software.

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Berlin/Karlsruhe, 20 March 2017 With their wide variety of possible applications, drones drive innovation and efficiency in a global economy.

Virtually no other sector is growing and becoming more professional at a faster rate than UAS (unmanned aerial systems). The focus has long since moved beyond technical aspects such as drone hardware or software. The acquisition of attractive startups such as MAVINCI and Ascending Technologies by global players like Intel in 2016, and the great interest being shown in the technology by investors through global companies such as DHL, Mercedes, Yamaha, Amazon and Airbus, demonstrates that the emphasis has shifted to the wide range of possible applications for drones. The focus is increasingly on optimization and on improving the efficiency of business processes and workflows.

Clear leadership aspiration of INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS
In September 2017, these companies will turn their attention to Berlin. INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS, which is taking place from 26 to 28 September as part of INTERGEO, the world’s leading trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, is not simply bringing Europe’s largest drone show to the German capital. It also has the clear aspiration of becoming established as the number one industry gathering for commercial and civil drone applications in Europe.

Berlin welcomes experts from around the world
At Messe Berlin, global industry experts – including top decision-makers from the worldwide UAS community, managers from large industrial groups and political representatives – will meet suppliers, manufacturers of drones and accessories, service providers and commercial drone users from various industries.

Forum also reflects diversity of user industries
The three-day programme of the INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS Forum covers the full range of possible uses and intelligent applications for drones in areas such as construction planning and monitoring, inspection tasks in the energy and water sectors, real estate, insurance, agriculture, forestry and disaster prevention. This makes the trade fair the only platform that combines all relevant drone applications at a single location.
Initial reports are expected regarding implementation of Germany’s new drone regulations, which were passed by the upper house of the German parliament just a few days ago. The Forum will also provide details about how to obtain the “driving licence” required for drones weighing 2 kg or more and about implementing the obligation to register drones weighing over 250 g – because these two regulations will provisionally enter into force on 1 October, just a few days after the trade fair.

New marketplace for suppliers of drone parts
Suppliers, companies offering accessories and service providers now have their very own exhibition area – the INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS Supplier Zone – which offers the ideal environment for discussing matters such as sourcing and partnerships.
For the first time ever, the Startup Zone will offer young and innovative startups in the sectors covered by INTERGEO and INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS a dedicated platform for showcasing their products and concepts to potential investors and industry representatives.

DRONE THINK TANK launched
Initiated by INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS, the first DRONE THINK TANK was launched in Berlin on 7 March 2017. It is intended as a catalyst for a sector that is growing fast and changing all the time. The objective is to use the DRONE THINK TANK to discuss developments, initiate ideas, develop new formats and form networks. Initial ideas from the launch meeting will already be in evidence at INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS 2017 in Berlin. The founding members are Kay Wackwitz from DRONEII, Benjamin Federmann from AIBOTIX, Lelia Miklos from CopterCloud, Michael Wieland from CopterView, Michael Niesen from Intel and Juliane Jähnke from INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS.

About INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS
INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS, consisting of exhibition, forum & flight zone, is Europe’s leading platform for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). It visits a new German city each year in tandem with INTERGEO. The Forum deals with current issues from politics, administration, science and industry. The Flight Zone in the outdoor zone offers live demonstrations of the various flight systems and thus delivers an all-round experience of products and the market.
With the wealth of potential on offer, INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS highlights the wide range of applications for UAS that already exist and provides a glimpse of future markets. Its forthcoming venues in the years ahead are also internationally renowned exhibition cities, including Berlin in 2017 and Frankfurt in 2018.
HINTE Messe- und Ausstellungs-GmbH is the host of INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS. Umbrella association UAV DACH and research company DRONEII are once again the partners of INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS in 2017.

Written by 80 European scientific experts from more than 25 institutions, this first Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report is a step forward into the development of regular annual reporting on the state and health of the Global Ocean and European Seas based on CMEMS marine environment monitoring capabilities.

The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report provides an annual report of the state of the global ocean and European regional seas for ocean community, policy and decision-makers with the additional aim of increasing general public awareness about the status of, and changes in, the marine environment.

The CMEMS Ocean State Report draws on expert analysis and provides a 4-D view (through reanalysis systems), from above (through remote sensing data) and directly from the interior (through in situ measurements) of the blue (hydrography, currents), white (sea ice) and green (e.g. Chlorophyll) global ocean and the European Seas.

This first issue delivers guidance on the physical ocean state and change over the period 1993–2015. Scientific integrity is assured through the process of independent peer review in collaboration with the Journal of Operational Oceanography.

Download the Ocean State Report 2016 here

(by Tereza Pultarova — March 15, 2017) LONDON — Airbus will add a third node to the European Data Relay System (EDRS) constellation of satellites that use laser links to download live imagery from Earth-observation satellites and provide military communications that are virtually impossible to intercept. – See more at: http://spacenews.com/spacedatahighway-to-add-third-node-for-global-coverage/#sthash.KwgPk3D9.dpuf

The third node, EDRS-D, to be positioned in geostationary orbit above the Asia Pacific region in 2020 or 2021, will expand the constellation’s coverage to near global with some residual blind spots to remain over North America and the northern Pacific Ocean.

The advanced laser telecommunication terminal to be developed by Airbus’ subsidiary Tesat Spacecom will for the first time allow transmitting data between geostationary satellites via laser links. The two EDRS payloads in orbit today lack the ability to talk directly to each other.

“With EDRS-D, we will be able to retrieve data, for example, from a Sentinel satellite over Australia and backbone it via EDRS-D to EDRS-A and downlink it in Europe,” said Hughes Boulnois, who heads the EDRS project at Airbus.

Dubbed the SpaceDataHighway, or the optical fiber in the sky, EDRS can transmit up to 40 terabytes of data per day in near-real-time at a data rate of 1.8 Gbps — almost three times higher than the U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, which relies on Ku- and Ka-bands.

The first node of the constellation, EDRS-A, is hosted on Eutelsat-9B spacecraft in geostationary orbit at 9 degrees east. Launched in January 2016, the laser terminal started commercial operations in November, servicing the European Commission’s Sentinel-1A Earth-observation satellite, part of the Copernicus program.

OHB SE of Bremen, Germany, is building the second EDRS satellite, EDRS-C, with a launch expected by the end of this year.

“The European Commission is very happy about the performance of the service,” said Boulnois. “We have demonstrated that we can deliver up to 50 percent more data from Sentinel-1A than what is possible with the X-band channel.”

EDRS-C, to be positioned at 31 east, will provide redundancy over Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, and extend the constellation’s coverage out to Singapore. Unlike EDRS-A, EDRS-C will be a dedicated satellite operated by Airbus hosting an additional payload from Avanti, the U.K.-based telecoms provider.

Airbus is currently looking for a partner to host the newly announced Asia-Pacific EDRS-D node.

“Airbus is not such a strong player in Asia Pacific so we need a partner that would allow us to expand our reach,” Boulnois said. “Also, from the economical perspective it makes more sense to combine forces with an operator, bringing the EDRS capability and identifying strong synergies with their telecom mission.”

Airbus expects EDRS-D will bring about a step change in EDRS services. Both, EDRS-A and EDRS-C only have one laser communications terminal. For EDRS-D, Airbus plans at least three terminals, which will enable the node to serve multiple customers at the same time.

In addition to downlinking data from low-Earth-orbiting satellites, Airbus is also eyeing the military aviation and unmanned aerial vehicle communications market in the Asia Pacific region.

“This area, from the security perspective, has some challenges and we can see that our customers are asking for more resilience, more secure communication,” Boulnois said.

“We are currently performing demonstrations and in-flight tests with our A310 [Multi Role Tanker Transport] platform to demonstrate air-to-geostationary connectivity via laser links, and we know already that customers are really interested in the key features of this technology,” he said.

Those key features, Boulnois said, are low probability of intercept, low probability of detection, high bandwidth and “the fact that you cannot jam it.”

Boulnois hinted Airbus is already pondering a fourth node to cover North America.

The EDRS constellation, a public-private partnership between Airbus and the European Space Agency, is currently serving only one customer – the European Commission’s Copernicus Earth-observation program. The laser links enable data from the low-Earth-orbiting satellites to be accessed immediately upon acquisition, eliminating the waiting for the satellite to fly over its ground station. The four Sentinel satellites in orbit — 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B — all have laser communications terminals capable of using the SpaceDataHighway.

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Data scientists, GIS engineers and software developers from California-based company EOS have recently launched a cutting-edge cloud-based tool that allows users, journalists, researchers and students to easily search and analyze huge amounts of the most up-to-date earth observation data.

Land Viewer is an on-the-fly, real-time imagery processing and analytics service, which provides:

  • instant access to petabytes of new and archive data;
  • the ability to find geospatial images on any scale in 2 clicks by selecting the required territory on the map or by location name;
  • on-the-fly imagery analytics, with the option to download any images required for business purposes.

The EOS solution enables users to carry out multipurpose research, to find and employ any Earth Observation image available from the Sentinel 2 and Landsat 8 satellites in one place and many times faster than previously. The service is free of charge, simple to use and can be accessed from any browser or device.

With Land Viewer, users are able to explore satellite imagery from the Sentinel 2 and Landsat 8 satellites stored on the Amazon Cloud platform, to apply search filters by date of image acquisition, cloudiness or sun elevation, to analyze images, download and share them with others.

Using tiling technology, Land Viewer can recover scenes from archive data in any zoom in less than 10 seconds. Images can be viewed in different band combinations or in an on-the-fly spectral index such as NDVI, selected to provide the information that best matches the user’s needs. To make this possible, EOS experts have created a technology that transforms on-the-fly raw satellite imagery data stored in 16-bit GeoTIFF format into tiles, which the user can immediately see on the screen in his web browser. There is no need to create and store additional preview screens or to archive data, as the images can be displayed immediately in the browser from raw data.

The user can apply various pre-installed and customized spectral band combinations to highlight and visualize any data type on the image. For example, forest fires are easier to see in the infrared spectrum. Various bands are available for analysis of vegetation, agricultural land, ice cover, rivers, lakes and oceans. Users can review in detail all objects located within a scene, for example, in connection with fires, floods, illegal logging or water resources management. It is also possible to chronologically compare geospatial imagery from 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 to track changes in the development of riverbeds, forests and other natural features.

In February 2017, earth scientists in Israel used Land Viewer to facilitate their research by extracting satellite derived bathymetry to create a 100 m grid map of the seas around the Arabian Peninsula. GIS experts were also able to carry out shallow bathymetry analysis using the very best imagery (no waves, clean atmosphere, good visualization of real bathymetry etc.) available in Land Viewer.

“By 2017, EOS will be listening to the social and commercial pulse of mankind on the planet”, says EOS founder and CEO Max Polyakov. Indeed, the company has the most powerful set of remote sensing image processing technologies at its disposal, while the EOS warehouse aggregates data from a variety of sources: satellites, aerial and UAV. From now on, users can receive access to innovative cloud-based imagery analytics technologies, neural network based methods, point cloud – photogrammetry, change detection, imagery tiling and mosaicking.

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SI Imaging Services (SIIS) has reported that, effective as of January 1, 2017, LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping, LLC (LAND INFO) is an authorized reseller of KOMPSAT data.

With this agreement, LAND INFO will expand its offering of value-added feature extraction and classification to include the use of KOMPSAT imagery. SIIS contributes to remote sensing and Earth Observation (EO) societies by providing very high resolution optical and SAR images through over 80 partners worldwide. The KOMPSAT (Korean Multi-Purpose Satellite) program is a part of the Korean government’s space development program, which provides very high resolution satellite imagery to the global remote sensing community.

KOMPSAT 3A, the most recent optical satellite among SIIS’ products, offers 40 centimeter resolution imagery for a variety of purposes such as mapping, infrastructure monitoring and natural resources. KOMPSAT-5, the first Korean SAR satellite, offers very high resolution SAR imagery (up to 85 centimeters) for change detection regardless of weather conditions.

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