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The First Symposium on Earth Observation Business took place in Paris on September 10. This unique event brought together an international cast of top-level representatives from the entire Earth Observation value chain: government, satellite manufacturers, satellite operators, data resellers, service providers and end users.

Speakers came from industry leading private and public sector entities such as DigitalGlobe, Astrium Services, GeoEye, RapidEye, Google Earth & Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth/Bing Maps, e-Geos, Fugro, Gazprom, Total, NOAA, the French MoD, the Malaysia Remote Sensing Agency, and the European Union Satellite Center among many others.

During this full-day program these senior executive speakers addressed the opportunities and challenges in the fast-growing and changing EO business, which will impact actors at every level. As more and more private and public actors throughout the world are looking to Earth observation to address a variety of issues, manufacturing requirements are changing.

Approximately 260 Earth observation and meteorology satellites will be launched from 2009-2018 — double compared to the previous decade. The commercial data market should grow to $1.2 billion in revenues in 2009, and quadruple to nearly $4 billion in the next ten years as private users (both consumers and enterprise) and governments become bigger and more demanding customers and operators look to capture this new demand. Government agencies are also increasingly looking to commercialize their own data, a trend which could potentially impact the supply and price of data industry-wide.

During the event Adam Keith, Senior Analyst at Euroconsult, provided a snap-shot of the current Earth observation market, as well as forecasts for the size and shape of the market in the coming years. According to Mr. Keith, one of the interesting challenges ahead will be to see how providers of commercial data will adapt their business models, product offerings, and distribution to respond to user demand and diversify their revenue streams, while not encroaching on service provider territory. Governments and private stakeholders ranging from manufacturers to operators to service providers will also play a role in shaping the market of the future, and driving and benefiting from growth. Top executive speakers representing each of these areas shared their strategies over the course of four panels during the event:

Innovation for Market Growth (Satellite Manufacturers) Leaders discussed future demands for satellite manufacturing as well as changes in customers’ requirements across the world, from low cost systems to new generation satellites.

Increasing Needs for Government Usage as a Growth Driver Representatives of major agencies and military entities shared their rationale for increasing data usage and procurement strategies for proprietary and third party systems.

Growth Strategies of EO System Operators and Data Resellers Top executives of leading and emerging commercial EO operators discussed their vision of the future and how they will meet the challenges to diversify revenue sources, and develop sustainable business models beyond selling raw data, and secure private financing.

Added Value Brought by EO Data for Private Users Executives from private companies expressed their views on opportunities offered by the EO market, the current limits of available sources of data, and the costs of data and expectations for the coming years.

These key themes covered during the symposium mirror those found in Euroconsult’s recently released market report Satellite-Based Earth Observation, Market Prospects to 2018, which provides industry forecasts, assessment of business opportunities and analysis of the entire value chain for this growing market segment of the satellite industry.

This report, now in its second edition, is the source for all figures cited here. For more information visit http://www.euroconsult-ec.com/research-reports/space-industry-reports/satellite-based-earth-observation-38-27.html

If you missed this year’s event, be sure to save the date for the 2nd Symposium on Earth Observation Business on your calendar: September 9, 2010 in Paris. The symposium is part of the well-established World Satellite Business Week (WSBW), an annual Euroconsult summit. WSBW is an executive meeting place for the global satellite business and widely considered the must-attend event for top executives from leading and emerging market players. 550 participants from 150 companies and over 100 executive-level speakers discussed market trends and growth strategies. For a complete look at the First Earth Observation Symposium program, or the World Satellite Business Week, visit www.satellite-business.com

Euroconsult: Consulting Services, Research Reports and World Summits

Euroconsult is the leading international research and analyst firm specialized in satellite applications, communications, and digital broadcasting. Our experts provide 1) strategic consulting, 2) comprehensive research reports, market analyses, and forecasts to support business planning and strategic decision-making, and 3) world summits like the World Satellite Business Week and First Symposium on Earth Observation Business. With 25 years of experience and more than 560 public and private sector clients in 50 countries, Euroconsult has assisted private and public sector actors in their mission-critical planning and analysis. For more information about Euroconsult, visit www.euroconsult-ec.com

As a prominent player in the earth observation sector, EUROSENSE added the realization of a thermographic map of the city of Genk, the region of Antwerp, the municipality of Garches (near Paris) and the city of Brussels, to its portfolio. The project in Antwerp, including 20 surrounding municipalities, is probably the largest project ever executed, allowing inhabitants to check their roof insulation quality


Following the Kyoto-protocol and its successors, more and more cities are working out local initiatives regarding an efficient energy use. Since several studies have indicated the roof as the most important location where heat losses occur in an individual residence, local governments are looking for instruments to promote their subventions for a proper roof insulation. During cold winter nights in March 2009, EUROSENSE executed 5 flights covering a total area of more than 750 km² in the Antwerp (see Figure 1) and Genk region. At the same time, volunteers measured the temperature under their roof(s) and filled in an inquiry with information about their roof(s).
Figure 1 represents an overview of the thermographic map over Antwerp and 20 surrounding municipalities. With a total area of approx. 650km², this is probably one of the largest thermographic maps ever made in the domain of heat losses through roofs
More than 13.000 individual thermal images, each covering 650m x 512m with a resolution of 1m, have been processed creating a homogenous thermographic map of the two areas. Experts at EUROSENSE then used the information collected by volunteers to set-up a list of discriminating indicators which clearly define differences in the interpretation of the thermographic map. These indicators were integrated into a simple-to-use interpretation key (see Figure 2) which leads to three different legends. Next to the interpretation key and legends, a list of remarks and exceptions was created in order to fine-tune the interpretation.Figure 2 represents the easy-to-follow interpretation key which leads the inhabitant to the legend he/she needs to use to interpret the colors of the building on the thermographic map. For the city of Antwerp and surrounding municipalities, an online viewer (http://www.antwerpen.be/zoominopuwdak, in Dutch) has been made. On this application the inhabitants can easily locate their building (see Figure 3), interpret the colors on the thermographic map, get an indication of their roof insulation quality by means of the interpretation key and can click to the website of their city or municipality for more information on subventions given by the local governments.

Figure 3 represents an extract from the thermographic map. Solving the interpretation key with the information on the building indicated with the black polygon, leads to a first of three legends. This building is a good example of a badly insulated building.

With the projects in Antwerp and Genk, as well as the thermographic project in Brussels and Garches (France) earlier this year, EUROSENSE shows their thorough experience in the creation of thermographic maps and the subsequent interpretation to the level of an indication of roof insulation quality.

For more information on these services, we refer to the following contact information:
EUROSENSE Belfotop N.V Belgium
Address: Nerviërslaan 54, B-1780 Wemmel, BELGIUM
Phone: +32 (0)2 460 70 00
Fax: +32 (0)2 460 49 58
Website: http://www.eurosense.com
E-mail: info@eurosense.com

File Management Technical Hydrocarbons + Aurensis in telecommunication+ Data surveillance with miniUAV

File Management Technical Hydrocarbons of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade

Aurensis has been awarded for the amount of 128,064 euros for the management of the service, maintenance and updating of the Technical File of Hydrocarbons of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade.

With this project a sum Aurensis new benchmark in its Information Technology Management for Oil & Gas companies. And it shall be responsible for management, maintenance and updating of file information over the next two years.

With this service, the Directorate General for Energy Policy and Mines makes the custody and management of public access to documents submitted by licensees in exploration, research permits and concessions for the exploitation of hydrocarbons, as defined in Article 12 of the Law 34/1998 of October 7.

You can request information online archive of Technical Oil (ATH) http://hidrocarburos.mityc.es/ath/ATH.ASPX through the website and to discuss the details of a visit, or to clarify any point regarding the requested documentation, please contact the ATH via e-mail sgh@mityc.es or telephone +34 91 349 75 58.

This service incorporates Aurensis a new client in the Management of Information Technology, which is developing projects with other clients in the market of Oil & Gas and Repsol YPF and Gas Natural Enagás since 2000.

AURENSIS launches its foray in the telecommunication sector with this agreement with MEDGAZ

MEDGAZ is a strategic project not only for Algeria and Spain, but also for Europe. On the one hand, it brings Algerian natural gas To Europe through a direct connection which ensures the security in the supply. Moreover, it is the most economical way of supplying natural gas to southern Europe, as international observers of the Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie and Wood Mackenzie have concluded.

Aurensis has signed an agreement with Medgaz to provide for the next three years satellite broadband connection services between Almeria (Spain) and Beni Saf (Algeria). With this solution, Medgaz has a safety circuit to establish broadband communication between its stations and share information about its operations.

With project Aurensis launches its foray in the telecommunication business in Spain and reinforces the international cohesion of the services offered by the Telespazio Group.

Regional government of Aragon hires Aurensis to provide ‘Data &Surveillance with miniUAV’ as a support for firefighting in 2009

The Fire Agency of the Regional government of Aragon hires Aurensis to provide services of “Data & Surveillance with MiniUAV” in the summer campaign of 2009 as support for firefighting.

With this agreement, Aurensis will provide the Agency with real-time video and photographs (visible, thermal and near-infrared), subsequently will be generated Orthophotos in order to monitor the fires from the air and provide technical support for their extinction.

Our services of ‘Data & Surveillance with miniUAV’

‘Data & Surveillance with miniUAV’ are remote sensing services carried out on small unmanned aerial vehicles operated by remote control from a ground station. These small aerial vehicles capture high resolution photographs and video those are especially useful to monitor from the air in emergency situations, rescue people in areas of difficult access, surveillance tasks in civil works and infrastructures, and to generate mapping in confined areas.

Real-time data of the earth’s surface – such as pictures and video – can be obtained while the plane flies over the area. Emergency managers have in this services an optimal way to assess the situation from the air, to deliver items to people at risk and identify which paths are available or cut to the affected area.
Furthermore, it is possible geo-reference photos and video in a short time to display on the map for a fast assessment. Orthophotos and cartography of the affected area can be generated in just one week; this information is very useful for the recovery plans.

In case of phenomena in which the temperature is a key factor such us: fire extinction, illegal dumping along the coasts and rivers and self-combustion in landfills, it is possible to generate a thermal map to locate burning points, and also to analyze forestry and vegetation state.

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Since August all Belgians can now view new, high resolution aerial imagery of their country on Google Earth/Maps!

Last weekend Google released the data of Belgium, which were acquired in the spring of 2007 by Aerodata International Surveys and posted news about this on their Google Earth blog:http://bit.ly/9xIQc. This dataset replaces the older, lower resolution satellite imagery.

The imagery, at a ground sampling distance (GSD) of 40cm, is part of the complete 80 000 km² 2007 integral Benelux dataset.

Please see newsflash for more information.

Google Maps link:http://bit.ly/iMGva

Souce Aerodata Surveys

Information about scheduled events 2010

3rd International Conference

Advanced Space Technologies for the Humankind Prosperity (Space Technologies: present and future) under the aegis IAA

Organizers of Conference: Ukrainian Regional Division of IAA, Yuzhnoye SDO, SE PA Yuzhny Machine Building Plant, National Space Agency of Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk National University

Start Date: April 20, 2011
End Date: April 22, 2011
Venue: Palace of Students, Shevchenko Park, Dnepropetrovsk, 49027, Ukraine
E-mail: info@dpukrconfiaa.org
http://www.dpukrconfiaa.org

For the first time, the conference Advanced Space Technologies for the Humankind Prosperity was held in Dnepropetrovsk in 2007

The conference proved to be a great success within scientific community of Ukraine, Russia and foreign countries, and found much publicized event. Informational messages, articles and interviews resuming the conference were published in some European editions, such as weekly magazine Acta Astronautica, information digests.

A decision supported by IAA was taken, on a regular (once every two years) holding International Rocket and Space Conference in Dnepropetrovsk.

The second Conference was held in 2009. More than 250 people from 13 countries were the participants.

More info at space@yuzhnoye.com

Definiens is Developing an Application Marketplace for Earth Sciences Professionals

Munich, Germany / Parsippany, New Jersey – Sept 22, 2009 – Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence® company, today announced a new strategic direction for its Earth Sciences division. Definiens is building upon the success of its object-based image analysis (OBIA) platform to simplify the development and distribution of applications among its global user and partner community. The launch of Definiens’ newest software suite for Earth Sciences in late 2009 will also see the company reprise its widely-recognized brand name, eCognition.

Definiens was the first company to provide OBIA to the earth sciences market. The company’s mature image analysis software products, Definiens Developer and Definiens Architect, enable users to develop custom solutions that rapidly extract accurate geo-information from any kind of remote sensing data. Moving forward, Definiens and its partners will increasingly develop standardized applications for common remote sensing and mapping challenges. The company will also facilitate the commercial and non-profit distribution of third-party applications developed using Definiens software.

“Remote-sensing image analysis technology has come a long way, but the development of applications remains predominantly in the hands of experts, utilizing them locally,” said Ralph D. Humberg, Vice President, Earth Sciences at Definiens. “As the founder of OBIA for earth science professionals, we are excited to lead the industry into a new era; one in which users will independently and rapidly develop applications and then share these with colleagues and customers globally in online communities. Users will increasingly gain access to both Definiens-built and third-party commercial applications designed to solve mission-critical image analysis challenges across a wide array of industries.”

The recent launch of the Definiens eCognition Community website was the company’s first step toward fostering greater collaboration between its users. Definiens eCognition 8, to be released late in 2009, will incorporate functionality designed to make the software accessible to users without extensive software programming experience, promoting knowledge transfer and application development among Definiens Earth Sciences’ community. The new software will maintain Definiens’ easily transportable and modifiable ruleware and open-architecture, enabling the integration of industry standard platforms and imaging data from all modalities, while introducing a streamlined graphical user interface and pioneering new multidimensional and LIDAR capabilities.

“While informal exchange of rule sets between users has been the status quo for some time, we anticipate our upcoming products will enable the development of a true global marketplace for user-developed applications in the earth sciences,” continued Ralph D. Humberg. “Being the primary enabler of this marketplace will consolidate Definiens’ leadership in the industry while providing our users with additional avenues for monetization of their own applications.”

The new strategic direction for Definiens’ Earth Sciences division also sees the reintroduction of its eCognition brand. First utilized in the company’s introduction of OBIA to the earth sciences industry in 2001, the widely-recognized eCognition brand will be utilized broadly as the company leads the industry into an era of expanded image analysis capabilities and increased global collaboration.

For more information on the eCognition Community and Definiens’ leading image analysis software for earth sciences visit the company at the INTERGEO conference in Karlsruhe (Hall 4, Booth 4.626), or go to http://earth.definiens.com

Definiens will preview its latest software, eCognition 8, in two presentations at the INTERGEO Forum in room K1: Tuesday, September 22, “Neue Dimensionen der objektbasierten Bildanalyse” and Trend und Medienforum, dm-Arena (Halle 4): Wednesday, September 23, “eCognition 8 – taking object-based image analysis to new geo-dimensions.”

Definiens in Earth Sciences

Definiens enables organizations involved in Earth Sciences to quickly extract accurate geo-information from any kind of remote sensing data. The company assists data providers, value adders, scientists and end users in integrating earth observation and remote sensing data to generate accurate GIS-ready information. Definiens’ intelligent feature extraction capabilities accelerate mapping, change detection and object recognition – delivering standardized and reproducible image analysis results. Further information is available at http://earth.definiens.com

About Definiens

Definiens is the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence company for analyzing and interpreting images on every scale, from microscopic cell structures to satellite images. The Definiens Cognition Network Technology®, developed by Nobel laureate Prof. Gerd Binnig and his team, is an advanced and robust context-based technology designed to fulfill the image analysis requirements of the Medical, Life and Earth Sciences markets. The technology is modeled on the powerful human cognitive perception processes to extract intelligence from images. Definiens provides organizations with faster image analysis results, allowing deeper insights enabling better business decisions. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has offices throughout the United States. Further information is available at www.definiens.com

Definiens, Definiens Cognition Network Technology, Definiens eCognition, Enterprise Image Intelligence and Understanding Images are trademarks or registered trademarks of Definiens

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Over the last few months, Chelys has produced new mosaics using new and improved techniques such as SAR-sharpening, Orthorectification and Clouds and Shadows detection and removal.


The first mosaic is a MERIS reduced resolution mosaic of the world generated from over 2000 images collected between January and August 2008. The original products from the Envisat satellite were processed by the Chelys Satellite Rapid Response System (SRRS) and then projected by Chelys MOSRI. The strength of the Clouds and Shadows detection algorithm is its speed and capability for retrieving even the smallest area of valid pixel information from any cloud covered image.

http://www.eosnap.com/?page_id=2668

The detailed view of Italy in the second mosaic, also generated by MOSRI, was created using the Chelys SAR-Sharpening technique. This technique is similar to PAN-Sharpening in that it merges a high resolution image with lower resolution multispectral imagery; however, the high resolution image used by our SAR-Sharpening method is radar image instead of a panchromatic one. In this mosaic, the level of detail in the MERIS image (250m resolution) has been greatly enhanced by merging an ASAR mosaic with a resolution of 75m. The mosaic comprises ASAR images acquired from January to July 2009, and MERIS images captured between April and November 2008.http://www.eosnap.com/?page_id=2668
This image is an ASAR image mode medium resolution mosaic of Italy. The source images, acquired from January to July 2009, were generated from Envisat data using SRRS, then projected, orthorectified, merged through MOSRI. The Chelys orthorectification process corrects the geometric distortion created by SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) instruments, whose side-looking imaging mode has an angle much greater than that of the optical image, using a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) to make the slant to ground range conversion truer to the region’s actual topography. The process selects the proper DEM according to image resolution (3 arcseconds for this image), and performs in real-time, with the entire correction process taking less than 20 seconds per product. As a finishing touch, the banding effect common to the merging of various original radar images was also automatically eliminated by MOSRI.

http://www.eosnap.com/?page_id=2668

Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) acquires multi-spectral imagery of the Earth, and is used to monitor the state and evolution of the terrestrial vegetation cover. In particular, the MERIS Global Vegetation Index (MGVI), which corresponds to the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), is generated operationally as a standard level-2 product, using the radiation measured by MERIS over land surfaces. This bio-geophysical product plays a critical role in the plant photosynthetic process and is regularly used in diagnostic and predictive models to compute the primary productivity of the vegetation canopies. FAPAR has been established as a fundamental surface parameter by international organizations including the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), charged with providing data on the Earth’s climate system.

Chelys has developed a new processor that is able to process and directly extract the FAPAR index from level 0 reduced or full resolution (but also from level 1), generating the relative false-colored image just a few seconds after the original data is ingested.

In the next few weeks, a processor that will systematically generate these vegetation index images will be incorporated in the SRRS (Satellite Rapid Response System). As soon as enough images have been collected, it will be possible to generate mosaics as well.

More info at EOSNAP

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00176 Rome – ITALY
Tel: +39 06 78 400 24
Fax: +39 06 62 275 199
Web: www.eosnap.com

Pcigeomatics.com news

PCI Geomatics Software Supports RapidEye Sensor

As the industry leader in supporting satellite sensors, PCI Geomatics has included support for RapidEye in its Geomatica 10.2.1 version release. RapidEye is a constellation of five sun-synchronous Earth Observation satellites which provide large area, multi-spectral images with frequent revisits in high resolution collecting multi-spectral data in 5 meter pixel size. RapidEye is the first commercial sensor which makes available the red-edge wavelength, useful for detecting changes in chlorophyll content, giving insight into vegetation health.

RapidEye is supported by the Satellite Ortho Suite in Geomatica 10.2.1, which is currently available from PCI Geomatics.

For more information, please visit: http://www.pcigeomatics.com/pressnews/2009_PCI_RapidEye.html

PCI Geomatics Announces New Upgrade to its Geomatica Software Including its Advanced SAR Polarimetry Workstation

PCI announced the availability of an upgrade to its remote sensing and image processing software. Geomatica® 10.2.1 is the latest version of the image-centric desktop software which provides users with additional satellite sensor support as well as new functionality for the SAR Polarimetric Workstation (SPW).Additional support for the high resolution X-band SAR imagery provided by TerraSAR-X is also included in this upgrade.

The SPW provides a complete set of tools and applications designed specifically for the processing and analysis of Polarimetric SAR (POLSAR) data, and version 2.1 is now available and compatible with Geomatica 10.2.1. This includes the Touzi Discriminators which make it easier to detect a particular target in a Polarimetric SAR image. The Touzi Decomposition introduces new parameters which remove certain ambiguities not previously understood and provide vastly superior results as compared to conventional algorithms. Additionally, the SPW now supports the following sensors: Radarsat-2, Cosmo Sky-Med and TeraSAR-X.

For more information, please visit: http://www.pcigeomatics.com/pressnews/2009_PCI_geomatica_upgrade.html

PCI Geomatics Hosts Exclusive Solutions Seminar in Brussels to Introduce its GeoImaging Accelerator Technology

PCI Geomatics held an exclusive seminar in Brussels on June 22 which featured news and information on PCI’s leading edge solutions technology, specifically, the new GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) a solution for fast, reliable image processing. The GeoImaging Accelerator combines high-performance computing with PCI Geomatics expertise to provide a significant improvement in speed and efficiency.

For more information, visit: http://www.pcigeomatics.com/pdfs/GXL_Flyer_English.pdf

New distribution channels bring industry leading software products for understanding imagery and complex data to a wider base of users.

Boulder, CO – July 6, 2009 – ITT Visual Information Solutions (ITT VIS), a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, (NYSE: ITT), announced the signing of international distribution agreements with six independent companies, covering fourteen countries worldwide, for its leading image processing software solution, ENVI. Under these authorized distribution agreements, key distributors of ESRI® ArcGIS® software products will now make the ENVI family of image processing and analysis software products available to their customers. The agreement helps a growing number of professionals get information from geospatial imagery and integrate it with their GIS applications in a variety of industries, including environmental monitoring, urban planning, defense and intelligence, oil and gas, and agriculture.

“We are pleased to welcome this group of highly respected partners to our global team,” said Richard Cooke, President of ITT Visual Information Solutions. “Each of these distributors offers integrated geographic and geospatial solutions based on ESRI’s ArcGIS products, to a well-established customer base, and we are eager to help them meet the growing demand of GIS professionals worldwide for integrated image processing and geospatial information solutions.”

The companies signed to distribute ENVI products in their geographic areas are:
ESRI Romania – Romania
ESRI Spain – Spain
GISDATA Group – Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo
ESRI Bulgaria Ltd. – Bulgaria
• QS4IT – Egypt
• Geodata AS – Norway

In addition to the newly signed ENVI agreements, ITT Visual Information Solutions also entered into international distribution agreements with three independent companies in Europe to sell IDL, ITT’s computing environment for data visualization and analysis. Under the distribution agreements, the new distributors will make IDL’s modern, interactive data visualization and analysis capabilities available to professionals in their regions who need to extract meaningful information from complex data.

The new companies signed as IDL distributors are:
• Softbooks s.c. – Poland
• Inforest Research – Greece
• Jeodijital – Turkey

For more information about ENVI, visit www.ittvis.com/ProductServices/ENVI.aspx.

For more information about IDL and ENVI, visit www.ittvis.com/ProductsServices.apsx.

About ITT Visual Information Solutions

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

About ITT Corporation

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

© 2009 ITT Visual Information Solutions

ITT Corporation
Visual Information Solutions
4990 Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 303-786-9900
Lori Thompson
303-402-4664
lthompson@ittvis.com

Spacemetric is working with Elsag Datamat (www.elsagdatamat.com) to develop next-generation satellite image browse services for the European Space Agency.

The objective of the Interactive Browse project is to provide users with enhanced services for reviewing and selecting the data best suited to their needs.

The Interactive Browse Server will be built upon Spacemetric’s Keystone image management system and use open standards including GeoTIFF, JPEG2000 and OGC Catalogue Services to enable a richer and more flexible access to browse imagery. While current services typically serve up fixed, multipurpose browse or quick-look imagery, the new services will allow users to pan and zoom in high-resolution data, select which channels are displayed, and use interactive tools to refine image geometry and mask cloudy areas before ordering data. A monitoring service will also send users automatic notifications of new imagery meeting their criteria.

The Interactive Browse project is an important step in the development of next-generation user services at ESA. Lars Edgardh, CEO of Spacemetric, noted that “in the Sentinel era, the ability to efficiently locate and evaluate the imagery needed will be a key capability for emerging information services”.

About Spacemetric

Spacemetric is a Swedish company providing geospatial image management solutions. Its customers include the Swedish cadastre, mapping and land registry authority, the Swedish Air Force, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and the European Space Agency.

CONTACT
Ian Spence
EMAIL: is@spacemetric.com
TELEPHONE: +46 8 594 770 83