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A new, easy-to-use online interface for TerraSAR-X Archive Data ordering is now up-and-running on Infoterra GmbH’s website.

In order to introduce this uniquely user-friendly tool, Infoterra offers an additional discount of 50% on any archive scene ordered through the TerraSAR-X Online Archive throughout the month of October, independent of acquisition mode and date.*

The new TerraSAR-X Online Archive enables the user to search for available TerraSAR-X Archive Data for any area of interest on the Globe, optionally applying specific search criteria as needed. Scenes can easily be selected, reviewed, and submitted as a request for proposal to Infoterra’s Customer Service Team, who will promptly follow up with the customer.

The significant discount offered in October leads to prices that are up to 75% below those of a new acquisition – an excellent opportunity to stock up on past data of current areas of interest, e.g. for a thorough monitoring or detailed change analyses dating back to January 2008.

  • offer valid for archive scenes ordered 01.10.2010 to 31.10.2010. A discount of 50% to the prices as published in the TerraSAR-X Int’l. Pricelist applies. Discount may not be combined with any other discounts.

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Monday 4 October, a reservoir burst its banks at an alumina plant in Ajka, Hungary, releasing a flood of some 1.1 million cubic metres of toxic residues.

Kolontar, the village nearest the reservoir, was immediately engulfed by a torrent of red sludge.

Zoltan Illes, Hungary’s Secretary of State for Environmental Affairs, visited Kolontar the day after the spill, calling it an “environmental disaster”.

EADS Astrium subsidiary Spot Image tasked the FORMOSAT-2 satellite to acquire imagery of the disaster area. A first image centred on the reservoir and nearby villages arrived on 7 October, clearly showing the breached western flank of the reservoir and the extent of the spill in Kolontar.

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The International symposium with an exhibition was organized by the Union of Surveyors and Land Managers in Bulgaria, under the auspices and in close cooperation with eminent international geodetic and others organizations.

The Symposium carried on the established tradition of knowledge exchange and experience in the filed of geodesy, photogrammetry, cadastre and cartography, GNSS and GIS and related fields, as well as of keeping a close regional cooperation among European countries mainly.
The Twentieth International Symposium <- Modern technologies, education and professional practice in geodesy and related fields -> was held in Albena resort, Flamingo Grand Hotel.

This year ReSAC participated with the oral presentation about “EU GMES PROGRAMME AND GEOLAND2 – PRE-OPERATIONAL LAND MONITORING SERVICE OF GMES” under Seventh Framework Program of EU for research and technological development (priority “SPACE”). The role of ReSAC in relation to the program for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security was presented. Attention was paid to the three core services of the Geoland2 project that will be provided by ReSAC. These are Seasonal/Annual Terrestrial Change Monitoring (SATChMo); Spatial Planning, Agri-Environment Monitoring.

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PCI Geomatics Welcomes the German GeoConsultants Group (3G) to the PCI Reseller Network

Richmond Hill, Ontario – October 6, 2010: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, is happy to announce the appointment of The German GeoConsultants Group (3G) as a local reseller for PCI’s Geomatica® and GeoConference® family of products for the Libya and Tunisia regions.

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PCI Geomatics Announces the Release of GXL Aerial

Richmond Hill, Ontario – October 4th, 2010: PCI Geomatics will announce the launch of its GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A) software at the Intergeo 2010 Conference this October 5-7 in Cologne, Germany. This follows an earlier announcement in March when Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, agreed to partner with PCI to produce an image processing system specifically for Vexcel Imaging’s UltraCam aerial cameras and UltraMap photogrammetric software.

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PCI Geomatics Signs Master Distributor Contract with Geo-Alliance

Richmond Hill, Ontario – September 30, 2010: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems is pleased to announce the appointment of Geo-Alliance as Master Distributor of PCI’s solution technologies and Geomatica family of products for the Russian Federation, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, and the Ukraine.

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EDISOFT, the Portuguese software engineering company leader of the national Space Systems market, announces it has been awarded by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to provide the oil spill monitoring and vessel detection service for the 2nd Generation of CleanSeaNet for the South-West/Canary Islands European coastal waters.

As one of the original suppliers of the CleanSeaNet 1st Generation Service, EDISOFT has worked throughout 2010 to adapt its oil spill analysis processing chain to cope with EMSA’s new requirements for the second generation service, in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. This means that EDISOFT’s processing chain is now capable of producing the oil spill and vessel detection reports based on SAR images from ENVISAT, RADARSAT-1 and ERS-2 in all required modes and that, in the near future, will also accommodate the RADARSAT-2 and Sentinel satellites. Additionally, the analysis processing chain was adapted to fully comply with the EMSA’s strict customer efficiency timelines.

The CleanSeaNet 2nd generation service will replace the existing 1st generation service in 2010, to include additional satellites and sensor modes, expanding the daily service coverage and widening the SAR images characteristics (coverage and resolution). The access to additional information layers (AIS/LRIT) will be natively supported in the service’s new generation to enrich the oil spill and vessel detection services with additional information, namely the ships’ identification and route data.

About CleanSeaNet Service

One of EMSA’s responsibilities is to offer all EU member (coastal) States a near-real time (NRT) marine oil spill detection service using radar satellite imagery acquired by SAR satellites. This service is free of charge and covers all European waters. To date, EMSA delivers the CleanSeaNet service to the 24 European coastal States: Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Malta; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden and United Kingdom, and may expand the service to other countries in the near future.
The CleanSeaNet service is integrated within the national and regional oil pollution surveillance and response chains of the coastal States and aims at strengthening the operational response for accidental and deliberate discharges from ships as well as assisting coastal States to locate and identify polluters in areas under their jurisdiction. While the aerial surveillance, pollution response and prosecution activities are national tasks, the cross border satellite images (together with additional ancillary information such vessel tracking information) are provided by EMSA’s CleanSeaNet.

A common approach to oil spill monitoring at the European level, using compatible data standards and methodologies, supports the development of statistics on the extent of ship sourced oil pollution. In the case of a detected oil spill, an alert is delivered to the relevant coastal State operational contact point, responsible for monitoring of ships’ sourced pollution at the national level. The alert message can be transmitted via a phone call, an email, a fax or an SMS, depending on the alert means the coastal State has defined. It is of outmost importance that coastal States administrations are immediately informed of any potential spill with the aim of increasing the likelihood of catching the polluter red-handed.

Each coastal State has access to the CleanSeaNet service through a web-based application that disseminates the CleanSeaNet data and products to the users. Coastal States define the areas to be monitored by the CleanSeaNet service, together with the required number of satellite scenes. Coastal States requirements for monitoring take into account national knowledge of sea areas where the illegal oil discharges are known to take place, areas of high traffic density, environmentally sensitive areas and other factors which influence national monitoring requirements and planning.

CleanSeaNet began operating in April 2007. In the first two and half years of service, approximately 5800 satellite radar images were provided to coastal States. In 2009, CleanSeaNet identified 2105 possible oil spill detections, of which 775 detections were checked by the coastal States and 195 were confirmed to be mineral oil.

About SMA Ground Station

The Santa Maria launchers tracking station is the first European Space Agency’s (ESA) station in the Portuguese Territory and it is the first ESA station dedicated to launchers’ tracking. It has performed its first mission in March 8th 2008, when the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was launched by Ariane 5 to the International Space Station (ISS). The Station’s operation is EDISOFT’s responsibility, through a consortium involving the regional companies GlobalEda and Segma.

After six months of operations at Santa Maria Satellite Station (SMA), EDISOFT installed new maritime monitoring and surveillance capabilities, enabling the station to perform Remote Detection activities using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. SAR images are collected from ENVISAT (ESA) and RADARSAT-1 (MDA) satellites and allow the identification and classification in near-real time of hidrocarbonets spills (including crude oil spills) as well as their potential polluters (ships), providing the opportunity to the eligible States to make a directional (aerial or naval) verification of the reported oil spill and of the potential ship polluters.

Confirmed SMA’s geo-strategic importance for the monitoring and surveillance of the Atlantic Ocean, it is expected an evolution of this Station’s utilisation as a Centre for receiving and storing data on Earth Observation.

About EDISOFT, S.A.

EDISOFT, S.A. has been a key reference in the Space Systems market, accumulating considerable technical and technological expertise in Satellite Navigation, Satellite Navigation-based applications and Earth Observation.

Established in 1988, EDISOFT, S.A. is also the national leader in the domains of weapons and sensors’ command and control systems for military ships, information integration systems in naval platforms, military logistic information systems and collective security systems.

Today a Portuguese presence throughout the World, EDISOFT, S.A.’s operational systems clearly highlight the Company’s commitment to the internationalization effort, on one part, and to the drive for innovation and entrepreneurship on another. EDISOFT’s excellence was recognised when it became the first Portuguese Company with a CMM appraisal. Established by the Software Engineering Institute, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a five-step methodological approach that analyses the development and implementation of software engineering projects and appraises companies abiding to the most demanding and strict quality and performance criteria.

More information about EDISOFT, S.A. and its product and services portfolio available in: www.edisoft.pt.

Metria holds a long and unique experience in providing satellite data and services to our clients. As a reseller we offer:

  • Very High Resolution data from IKONOS, GeoEye-1, QuickBird, WorldView-1, WorldView -2, and KOMPSAT-2
  • High Resolution data from Spot-4, Spot-5,FORMOSAT-2, ALOS, Rapideye, IRS-P6 and Landsat satellite data
  • Radar data from TerraSAR, ERS and ENVISAT radar satellites

We also offer different services together with the satellite data eg; ortho-correction, image mosaics, land cover classifications, change mapping and monitoring. We have a long tradition in working with operational applications and as efficient data provider.

Please contact us at satellit@lm.se for details.

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Sep 15, 2010: KSPT MEOS™ Control and MEOS™ Connect to Kongsberg Satellite Services for Antarctica

Kongsberg Spacetec has signed a contract with Kongsberg Satellite Services to deliver a MEOS™ Control and a MEOS™ Connect system to support operations of a new KSATs antenna system at Troll in Antarctica. The MEOS™ Connect system will be used in Tromsø to provide common operations of the KSAT Troll antennas.

MEOS™ Control is Kongsberg Spacetec’s product for Ground Station monitoring and control. A Ground Station often consists of a number of specialized units, e.g. demodulators, modulators, antenna control units (ACU), converters, switch matrices, etc. Instead of handling these units as stand alone units, MEOS™ Control integrates them into one overall system, with a common GUI and a common API for remote operations.

MEOS™ Connect is a basic building block for implementing efficient Monitoring & Control infrastructures in distributed Ground Station environments

Sep 09, 2010: KSPT MEOS™ Control to Kongsberg Satellite Services for Svalbard

Kongsberg Spacetec has signed a contract with Kongsberg Satellite Services to deliver a MEOS™ Control system to support operations of a new antenna system on Svalbard..

MEOS™ Control is Kongsberg Spacetec’s product for Ground Station monitoring and control. A Ground Station often consists of a number of specialized units, e.g. demodulators, modulators, antenna control units (ACU), converters, switch matrices, etc. Instead of handling these units as stand alone units, MEOS™ Control integrates them into one overall system, with a common GUI and a common API for remote operations.

Aug 24, 2010: KSPT MEOS™ Polar Met and MEOS™ Capture HRDFEP system to CLS, France

Kongsberg Spacetec has signed a contract with CLS – Collecte LocalisationSatellite, Toulouse France, for upgrades to the CLS direct reception ground station network. The systems under contract are the MEOS™ Polar Met and MEOS™ Capture HRDFEP (High Rate Demodulator & Front End Processor) products configured for direct reception from the SARAL, NOAA and Metop satellites.

The MEOS™ Polar ground station system is Kongsberg Spacetec’s multi-mission, flexible and modular turnkey system for acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis and distribution of meteorological data.

MEOS™ Data Capture HRDFEP is a high performance data receiver, acquisition and telemetry processing system for the most demanding professional users, developed to bring all your data safely home, always. This mission statement translates into the key properties of all MEOS Capture products: Performance, Reliability and Flexibility.

Detailed information on all our MEOS™ Data acquisition systems are available here.

For more information about the customer CLS – Collecte LocalisationSatellite

Aug 20, 2010: NASA’s ALOS ground system in nominal operation

NASA’s data acquisition and processing system for ALOS entered the operational phase on April 12, 2010, and has passed four months of successful operation. NASA uses Kongsberg Spacetec HRDFEP high rate data receiver and processing systems to support this important NASA / JAXA joint effort, which benefits the global Earth science community.

ALOS data is downlinked via NASA’s TDRSS communication system for reception at the NASA WSC ground station.

The Kongsberg Spacetec HRDFEPs autonomously capture the data and generate Level 0 products in real-time. Level 0 products are automatically distributed to Japan and Alaska for further processing and archiving.

The HRDFEP system has been chosen by NASA for its high performance, robustness and real-time processing. Fully autonomous operation also reduces operational cost over a conventionally commanded system.

The Kongsberg Spacetec data acquistion system; MEOS™ Capture product line consists of high performance data acquisition and management systems for the most demanding professional users, developed to bring all the user’s data safely home, always.

This mission statement translates into the key properties of all
MEOS™ Capture products:
Performance,
Reliability and
Flexibility.

For more information about the customer Kongsberg Satellite Services

News from last months

28 September 2010: Astrium launches TerraSure, a pay as you use online risk management tool for the insurance market

Today see the launch of the TerraSure Services range for the insurance market delivering easy access to affordable decision support information through a dedicated online portal. Operated as a secure web service, the TerraSure Services enable professionals to gain access to flood and subsidence risk rating both at individual property level and across their whole portfolio. Users are charged on the basis of the information displayed, giving businesses efficient access to data from anywhere in the country as and when it is needed.

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27 September 2010:All new TerraSAR-X Online Archive now released – all Archive Data HALF PRICE for month of October

Infoterra introduces the new, easy-to-use TerraSAR-X Online Archive Data Ordering Tool – an additional 50% discount is granted on any archive data set ordered throughout the month of October.

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8 September 2010:Satellites to provide daily monitoring of onshore and offshore assets

Astrium Services wholly owned subsidiary, Infoterra Ltd has launched a new high resolution satellite imaging service that provides the oil, gas, energy and mining sector with early visibility of potential risk associated with operations. AssetMonitor™ ‘Daily Response’ is the first risk management service to offer a daily revisit capability, setting a new surveillance standard in the satellite monitoring of onshore and offshore operations, and providing organisations with a clear timeline of potential drilling spills or pipeline leakage.

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22 July 2010:Astrium expands its Geo-information services in Greece

Astrium has strengthened its presence in Greece by creating the company Spot Infoterra Hellas, a provider of geo-information products and services. The Greek company Geomet, a long-standing partner of Spot image and Infoterra in Greece, will be merged into the new entity. Through this move, the two recently merged subsidiaries of Astrium Services continue their expansion in Europe..

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20 July 2010:Infoterra wins 7.5 million euros contract from ESA for satellite image processing until 2013

Astrium Services wholly owned subsidiary, Infoterra Ltd, has secured a further three year contract from the Farnborough Multi-Mission Processing and Archiving Facility (UK-MM-PAF) on behalf of the European Space Agency. Worth €7.5 million, the contract will see Infoterra continuing to deliver an operational service that will support the download and processing of images from both the ERS and ENVISAT satellite space missions.

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6 July 2010:SAFEcommand in Scotland

Following a recent order from Lothian and Borders Fire & Rescue, 6 out of 8 Fire and Rescue Services in Scotland now benefit from Infoterra’s SAFEcommand™ mobile solution. A solution enhancing incident operational safety through effective location and risk data management; and providing real opportunity for cross border data sharing.

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The company has been awarded of the public contract to implement LPIS quality inspection in the Czech Republic.


Gisat in charge of LPIS Quality Assurance

The Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) is the spatial component of Integrated Administration and Control Systém (IACS). It is based on reference parcels within a GIS environment to allow the identification, location and administrative crosschecks of the agricultural parcels declared by European farmers. The LPIS is instrumental in safeguarding the aid flows toward the European farmer but to date, no common and systematic assessment of this instrument has been implemented.

According to the Commission Regulation (EC) No 1122/2004 each Member State is obliged to annualy report on several LPIS quality elements. Therefore LPIS Quality assurance framework has been developed by the Joint Research Centre (DG JRC). An ISO compliant methodology is proposed whereby industry standard sampling plans are applied by Member States to collect objective data, using an enhanced and harmonised method based upon data collected for the Control with Remote Sensing programme.

The implementation of a LPIS quality assurance framework provides to the Member States key entry points for the verification and audit of their. But such framework would above all offer the Member States an instrument to guide the improvement of their LPIS and to streamline the IACS processes that relate to the LPIS.

Czech Ministry of Agriculture has published a public tender to deliver services related to the implementation of LPIS quality inspection in the Czech Republic. Thanks to the winning proposal Gisat has signed the contract early October. It covers wide range of services starting from Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite data processing, through LPIS completeness check and detailed inspection of the LPIS thematic & temporal accuracy (mostly based on satellite orthophotos) up to extensive statistical analysis of the seven prime quality elements defined in the QA framework.

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ISO certification confirmed

Compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 2004 standards accredited by the supervisory audit.

The supervisory audit extended the certification of internal Quality Management System and company’s Environmental Management System according to the ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 1400:2000 standards.

Gisat has successfully confirmed its commitment to maintain and continuously improve the quality of our services and products and its awareness of increasing importance of environmental issues and principles of sustainable development.

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