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29/12/2008
Agreements signed between Telespazio and DRS Technologies, companies of the Finmeccanica Group
Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, has signed agreements for two separate contracts with DRS Technologies. The agreement covers the provision of telecommunications services via the Italian SICRAL satellites and the Telespazio satellite telecommunications centre in Fucino.

19/12/2008
Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) wins contract in Turkey worth more than 250 million Euro for the Göktürk satellite system
Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, has won a tender as prime contractor, supported by Thales Alenia Space (a Thales/Finmeccanica company), from the Turkish Ministry of Defence for the Göktürk satellite system.

28/11/2008
Telespazio presents the Love Planet Earth 2009 calendar dedicated to the theme of water
Telespazio presents the third edition of the Love Planet Earth calendar, dedicated in 2009 to the theme of water and the environmental disasters associated with it. Combining six satellite images with the same number of photographs, Telespazio explores the theme of the new environmental disasters associated with this basic resource.

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(Dec 2008) Measuring surface deformation remotely with PSInSAR™

TRE is proud to announce that a new version of the PSInSAR™ processing chain is now available for commercial projects. During the last year, the internal software procedures as well as TRE hardware facilities have been updated to allow the delivery of ever better data to our clients and, following three months of testing by our R&D group, the new processing chain is now available!

Although the PSInSAR™ software, used for generating PS data, has been continuously updated since TRE was founded in March 2000, this new release delivers a range of new features and tools that improve the quality of the final results and the amount of the information that can be extracted from radar multi-temporal data-stacks.

1. Points of measurement, PS, affected by non-linear motion and then exhibiting a non-linear displacement time series can be better identified and the deformation signal can be better singled out.
2. Radar data gathered by new satellites, the Cosmo-SkyMed constellation and TerraSAR-X, can be now processed for PSInSAR™ analyses.
3. More quality checks have been added to all processing steps for improved reliability and precision assessment.

Following three months of trials and testing by TRE’s R&D group the new algorithm is now available!

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Tele-Rilevamento Europa (TRE) has established itself as a leading global provider of InSAR services thanks to its advanced PSInSAR™ technique, a radar remote sensing technology for monitoring ground movements.

www.treuropa.com

Head office
Via Vittoria Colonna, 7 , 20149 Milano, Italy
Tel.: +39 02 4343.121
Fax: +39 02 4343.1230
E-mail: info@treuropa.com

TRE Canada Inc.
#550 – 409 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC , V6C 1T2, Canada
Tel: +1 604 331.2512
Fax: +1 604 331.2513
E-mail: info@trecanada.com

Spot Image introduced two new service offerings developed to provide clients with direct access to SPOT satellite imagery in the Google Earth environment.

SPOT Globe For Google Earth Enterprise
The first offering, SPOT Globe for Google Earth Enterprise, delivers fusion-ready SPOT imagery to the growing number of organizations who rely on Google Earth Enterprise as their geospatial viewing and archiving solution.

Imagery is delivered in a pre-packaged and pre-ingested format for direct integration into existing Google Earth Enterprise Globes along with other raster and vector layers.

The SPOT Globe offering includes the entire line of 2.5m SPOTMaps mosaics. These off-the-shelf products provide seamless uniform coverage comprised of 2.5-meter, natural-color SPOT 5 satellite imagery acquired in the past three years.

Offered in regional and nationwide orthorectified mosaics, SPOTMaps serve as ideal geographic base maps for visualization, planning and mapping projects. Over 40 countries (more than 15 million km²) are now covered with SPOTMaps, and are available for use within Google Earth Enterprise.

“We are bringing our unique and extensive SPOTMaps coverage to Google Earth Enterprise users”, said Nicolas Stussi, Director of Services at SPOT Image Corp. “The SPOT Globe is a turn-key solution that makes SPOTMaps mosaics available and “ready-to-use” for Google Earth Enterprise customers, which saves users time and money.”.

SPOT Imagery, Google Earth – Ready
Spot Image is also introducing a service that provides SPOT imagery in a Google Earth-Ready KML format. This format enables imagery to be loaded and viewed immediately in any of the Google Earth software packages, including the Free, Plus, Pro and Enterprise levels. The Google Earth-Ready offering is available for any SPOT and Formosat-2 data.

To receive the KML formatted imagery, SPOT clients simply request it from Customer Service when placing the order. In addition to having the KML-formatted imagery delivered via FTP or CD/DVD, SPOT clients receive a network link giving them immediate online access to their imagery for visualization in Google Earth for 30 days.

“We have an increasing number of our customers using Google Earth Plus/Pro as part of their geospatial solution, especially for time-critical applications”, said Stussi. “Providing a vehicle that simplifies access and use makes our imagery more relevant in time sensitive situations, and empowers our customers to use and share SPOT imagery more efficiently”.

About Spot Image (www.spotimage.com)
The SPOT constellation of three satellites offers the broadest range of image telemetry, including, 2.5, 5, 10, and 20 meter resolutions. Spot Image provides imagery, data, surveillance and mapping solutions within numerous markets including Defense, Homeland Security, Agriculture, Land Management & Planning, Disaster Recovery, and Oil, Gas & Mining Exploration. The constellation is supplemented by the Taiwanese satellite Formosat-2 for which Spot Image has exclusive commercial distribution rights. Spot Image will also serve as exclusive commercial distributor for the upcoming 50cm resolution 2-satellite constellation, Pleiades, and the SPOT 6 satellite constellation. For over two decades, the Spot Image organization has perfected the ability to harness space- and ground-based systems to meet customers’ needs. Spot Image has also developed a far-reaching global network of commercial offices, receiving stations, partners and distributors. Every first-tier data provider operating today relies on Spot’s commercial network for reaching the global market.
SPOT Image is a Google Earth Enterprise Partner.

Spot Image is 81% owned by Astrium Services, an EADS company.

For further information:
Jean-François Faudi
jean-francois . faudi @ spotimage.fr
Tél : +33 (0)5 62 19 40 40

Google and Google Earth are trademarks of Google Inc.

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(nov 2008) RapidEye is pleased to announce the “opening” of their new Image Gallery on their website (www.rapideye.de).

The Image Gallery will feature high resolution satellite images taken from around the world by RapidEye’s constellation of five spacecraft. RapidEye plans to update the Image Gallery regularly as new, exciting images become available.

“RapidEye’s Image Gallery highlights a small sample of the images provided lately by our satellites and makes them accessible to everyone.” comments Michael Prechtel, Head of RapidEye’s Marketing and Sales.

System commissioning and calibration activities are advancing. bq. “Having obtained good images from each of the five cameras makes us confident that all cameras work well,” says Wolfgang Biedermann, CEO of RapidEye. “We are making good progress in tuning a large number of system parameters that have to be just right, in order to generate the high quality our customers expect from us. The images posted in the Image Gallery show the first results.”

The new gallery currently includes six images in South America and the U.S. Among these are the area around the volcano Tunupa in Bolivia, oil fields in the vicinity of Odessa, Texas, as well as an agricultural area near São Paulo, Brazil. All images can be viewed on RapidEye’s website at www.rapideye.de/home/news/gallery/. RapidEye successfully launched their constellation of satellites at the end of August, and is currently moving closer to completing final testing and calibration activities that will allow for commercial operations.

Please note that these images are provided for viewing purposes only. Commissioning and calibration activities are still in progress. The image gallery can be viewed at www.rapideye.de/home/news/gallery/.

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(Nov 2008) Planetek Italia is now an authorized distributor of DigitalGlobe’s high resolution world imagery solutions to customers in Italy and Greece.

With this agreement, Planetek Italia will enrich its capacity to offer remotely sensed satellite products and value added services, by adding QuickBird and WorldView-1 satellite data to its list of widely used imagery, including IKONOS, OrbView, Kompsat-2, Formosat-2, SPOT and TerraSAR-X.
By contacting Planetek Italia sales dept., all GIS and CAD users (ESRI, Autodesk, Bentley, Intergraph) can also ask for DigitalGlobe innovative web-services for GIS professionals, such as ImageConnect™, and connect directly to DigitalGlobe’s online ImageLibrary, the most comprehensive source of global aerial and satellite earth imagery.
To know more please visit also the italian Product section at the following link

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Work is forging ahead on Ingenio and Paz, Spain’s future Earth observation satellites.

INSA is taking an active part in the definition of the two satellites, under two contracts which it was recently awarded. In the first, a “Compatibility study for a shared segment for the Paz and Ingenio satellites”, INTA is responsible for two parallel studies, one of which has been assigned to the consortium lead by INSA that also includes Astrium S.A.S. and Deimos Space S.L. The second, the “Ingenio ground segment consolidation study”, has been awarded by the European Space Agency to the consortium formed by Deimos and INSA.

Both satellites, which will be launched in 2012, will cover Spain’s civil and military remote sensing requirements by means of their optical and radar observation instruments which are being designed from the outset to ensure a high degree of compatibility. They will thereby obtain far better results than if the two had been developed separately.

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Latest news

27 November 2008
bq. Infoterra launches new high definition land cover mapping product – LandBase™

Infoterra has launched LandBase™, its new high definition land cover mapping product. LandBase combines the latest object based classification technology and digital aerial imagery to provide an unrivalled land cover product, allowing viewing down to 1:5000 scale/property level. This enables the extraction of meaningful land cover data for a range of applications including; environmental and habitat management, change detection, flood modelling and infrastructure planning.

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20 November 2008
bq. Infoterra develops an online geographical asset management system for Stanfords

Infoterra has partnered with Stanfords Business Mapping, a leading retail supplier of paper mapping and map data for businesses, to develop a cost-effective new geographical asset management system – Stanfords GIS – for organisations managing property portfolios. This new system incorporates mapping and aerial photography in a secure, web-based management interface to provide an integrated geographical property database

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20 November 2008
bq. TerraSAR-X Imagery: Unique Year-End Ordering with Attractive Discounts expires Dec 10th

Infoterra GmbH now offers a unique opportunity which may well correspond to customer’s budgetary strategies towards the end of the fiscal year – or simply be an attractive discount opportunity. When ordering an individually defined data volume until Dec 10th, customers receive a volume discount of up to 30% for these data orders.

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17 November 2008
bq. British Transport Police to use ERDAS APOLLO. Infoterra supports 4 year implementation programme for London 2012 preparation.

Infoterra Ltd is working with British Transport Police to implement ERDAS APOLLO 2009, a unified enterprise platform for managing and serving large volumes of geospatial data across an organisation.

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(Nov 2008) GMV successfully organized a toxic gas leak emergency drill in Valladolid (Spain).

The drill, simulating a toxic gas leak from a tank truck, involved the participation of the local police, the fire brigade and GMV’s Healthcare Services. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) then overflew the zone to check the damage and assess the risks in the area; finally, a software tool analyzed the scope of the leak and helped in decision-taking procedures.

This drill was one of the scenarios organized by the European Commission’s R&D protect called OSIRIS, which is responsible for Europe’s standard monitoring of all types of geographically referenced phenomena based on in situ sensors, i.e., within a few-kilometer range around the object or phenomenon under observation (such as a toxic cloud, polluted water, etc). To do so it uses GPS systems and suitable measuring devices to record the information on the actual site of the event in question. This project involves the participation of over 7 countries and 14 companies.

OSIRIS has 4 specific areas (air, water, industrial fires and forest fires). GMV is one of the companies participating in this project and is in charge of organizing the air quality scenario. Italy is dealing with water quality, Germany with industrial fires and France with forest fires. During this process the results of OSIRIS’s air quality scenario have been demonstrated and assessed. The information from the OSIRIS sensors has been used for monitoring pollution levels in the city of Valladolid, keeping track of the contaminants after an emergency situation.

The objective of this project is to develop the necessary technology and software for setting up the intelligent sensor networks, thus facilitating the subsequent data analysis operations. This system will be conducive to a much more efficient management of environmental crises. Toxicity levels can now be measured in situ and the various environmental factors impinging on the event can be more accurately ascertained. Images of the situation can also be obtained. This will improve the performance protocol in each situation.

The drill was supported by the Town Council of Boecillo, keen to promote management systems for emergencies of this type, and also by the Technology Park of Boecillo, which made its site available for carrying out the drill.

More info: [ http://osiris-fp6.eu/ ]

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New GIM website (Geographic Informaitn Management)

GIM is an independent consultancy and GIS software integrator. We guide your projects, offer you support and make bespoke applications. We help you to study spatial problems and keep you informed about the latest technologies in the GeoICT domain.

The customer is king! For GIM this means :

  • improving the quality and efficiency of the services and processes in your organisation.
  • getting the best quality within the available budget.
  • and using the available resources as efficiently as possible.

We share our expertise with you in many different ways:

  • Consultancy and project management
  • Application development
  • Spatial data infrastructure
  • Geodata and database management
  • Earth Observation
  • Geomarketing
  • Helpdesk and support
  • GIM online services

Geodata in focus … You are looking for the most suitable data for your GIS? Have a look at our Geodata section

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(Nov 2008) GeoVille Group and Intermap Technologies – highly accurate elevation models

As published in the Nov. issue of AGEO, GeoVille Group and Intermap Technologies announced the first sale of their highly accurate elevation models to a state government in Austria. The digital map data will be used for the geo-rectification of orthophotos and the general planning of the new Vienna International airport.
The Intermap NEXTMap® 3D digital mapping data can be requested here

Link to the press release of AGEO