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19 September 2008, only one month after receiving its first Vexcel UltraCam- X prime (UCXp) digital camera, Aerodata completed its first large aerial surveying project using this system.

The project, in collaboration with Municipia of Oeras (Portugal) , had a surface area of over 3500 sqkm, covering the entire coastal area of Northern Portugal from Setubal all the way to the Spanish border. It was acquired at 10cm GSD with a forward overlap of 80%.

While project specifications were rather straightforward, they called for a very short acquisition period and extremely tight delivery deadline in relation to the scope of the project (start of project 1 September, delivery of all 42 TB of data before 31 October).

Aerodata showed that by acquiring and operating the new 196 Megapixel UCXp, extraordinary results are achieved.

Using the UCXp, execution of this project was done in just 8 flying days, with a total of over 18.000 aerial frames, while maintaining specified GSD and overlap.

This project once more emphasizes the operational strength of Aerodata using their newest best-in-class Vexcel digital cameras.

As major projects are completed in an unprecedented short time in relation to the number of pixels collected, this guarantees a highly efficient project execution and completion certainty.

Source Aerodata

INSA, together with the Comunity of Madrid’s Forest Fighting Services, carried out a simulation to test the use of navigation systems for the management of forest fires in a real and controlled scenario, in a simulated emergency situation.


INSA AND SATELLITE NAVIGATION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF FOREST FIRES: A PRACTICAL SIMULATION

What is HARMLESS?

HARMLESS is a European initiative managed within the VI Framework Programme by the GNSS Supervisory Authority. Its main objective is to research and promote the use of the European navigation satellite systems Galileo and EGNOS in the areas of emergency management, humanitarian aid and law enforcement. HARMLESS is a project developed by an industrial consortium participated by INSA (Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales, S.A.), NEXT, EADS Astrium France and EADS SN France, Infoterra UK, NSL, Map Action and IIASL, being coordinated by GMV.

HARMLESS dedicates a big effort in carrying out real simulations to test satellite navigation systems’ capabilities and to analyze, together with end users, real benefits of the systems.

INSA activities in forest fires

Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales accumulates more than 10 years in defining space systems and providing space-based applications intended to improve the efficiency of forest fire fighting services as well as to enhance the safety of the fire brigades.

Among the systems in operational use, REMFIRESAT combines the use of satellite-based navigation, telecommunications and Earth observation, providing at advanced command posts the real time position of fire fighting units and updated meteorological and hot spot information.

INSA has taken leading positions in the on-going GMES consortia dedicated to emergency management, being in charge of forest fire applications, such as RISK-EOS, PREVIEW and the forthcoming Emergency Core service. Under operational contract, it provides services to the Spanish ministries of Interior (Civil Protection) and Environment, as well as various regional authorities in charge of the fire management.

INSA in the Programme
Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales has as its main objective within the programme to test geo-location and communication capabilities and to study the benefits that navigation systems represent for emergency management, especially for firefighting services.

Forest fire task force of the Community of Madrid’s General Directorate for the Environment. Simulation with real personnel and operations.

A simulation to test the use of navigation systems for the management of forest fires was carried out in a real and controlled scenario, in a simulated emergency situation. Although fire was not present, its simulation allowed the task force to:

• Select the appropriate staff and resources
• Plan and carry out different exercises aimed to cover each of the phases of an emergency situation: preparation and prevention, alert and fire-control and the last one: analysis.

Preparation and prevention exercises allowed the acquisition of precise and reliable information about the test scenario, such as:

• Infrastructures’ cartography
• Access routes and its actual condition
• Selection of the best routes
• Planning of each of the exercises to be carried out in the next phases

Alert and fire-control tests simulated fire detection operations and the subsequent firefighting. Command Centers located the crisis scenario, managed resources allocation, followed firefighting operations and controlled staff security.

Final Analysis was based in information gathered during the simulation:

• Precise definition of the affected area
• Vehicles trajectories
• Operations diary

This information was used on the one hand to analyze operations efficiency during test exercises and on the other hand to test the benefits of navigation systems.

Simulation task force

Simulation was carried out by a team composed of twelve professionals, seven vehicles (soft and heavy fire trucks and 4×4 vehicles) and two command centers.

Both simulation vehicles (equipped with INSA-supplied hardware, currently in use in the whole Community of Madrid Forest Fire Fleet) as well as firefighting personnel where equipped with GPS receptors with EGNOS corrections and communicators that allowed sending real time positions and alert messages via satellite to the Command Centers.

Both Command Centers, one of them static and the other one portable, located in the battle field near the emergency, received real time information generated by the vehicles and personnel and visualized it through fleet management applications.

Conclusions
Real environment where forest firefighting activities take place is very hostile: poor visibility, high temperature, very low humidity and in the worst case, very high wind. Orography is very irregular and access routes can be in a bad condition or even no exist at all. Communications coverage is highly variable from one point to the next and in some cases there can be no coverage (except maybe via satellite).

Firefighting operations demand increasingly more and more technology that on the one hand allows them to operate more successfully and with a higher degree of security in such a hostile environment and on the other hand helps them to minimize the devastating effects of forest fires.

Navigation systems and fleet and personnel management applications are highly valuable tools, as them allow forest firefighting services to:

• Know in every moment where the personnel and vehicles are
• Increase operations management efficiency
• Make rescue operations easier

Source INSA

The next generation of earth observation and geoinformation services begin with RapidEye’s constellation of five satellites.

Brandenburg/ Havel, September 26, 2008 – After the successful launch of RapidEye’s constellation of five Earth observation satellites late August 2008, RapidEye reports that the commissioning activities on all the five spacecraft continue to progress well. All satellites have been stabilized, subsystems have been activated and detailed check-out is in progress. This phase will last about three months and will culminate in the MPAR milestone (Mission Preliminary Acceptance Review). The system will then go operational and RapidEye satellite data will be available to customers from all over the world.

The satellites will download their image data to an X-band antenna in northern Norway. The data will then be transmitted to the processing facilities at RapidEye headquarters in Brandenburg/Havel, where it will be processed and analyzed, and the products for customers generated. Another part of the ground segment is the control station, which monitors and controls the satellites. The combination of the satellite constellation, the control station and the data processing facilities enables RapidEye to offer cost-effective and efficient solutions for its customers in the agriculture, forestry and cartography industries and others. The RapidEye system is supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as the next generation of optical earth observation and as an important public/private partnership in aerospace.

A countdown and launch celebration was held at the RapidEye headquarters, attended by Jochen Homann, State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Head Official of the Ministry of Economics, Michael Richter, as well as the Mayor of the City of Brandenburg, Dr. Dietlind Tiemann. The RapidEye team along with their family and friends also shared the exciting day with several hundred interested citizens of the city of Brandenburg.

In response to RapidEye’s contest and the unique chance to name a satellite, more than 40 submissions from all over the world arrived at the headquarters in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany. Donations for the local youth project “Gollwitz Manor House Trust”, an institution focusing on the elimination of racial, ethnic and religious biases among young people, totaled the impressive sum of 2,394.50 EUR. The winning names are all Greek words, related to the company’s name and its mission: TACHYS (Rapid), MATI (Eye), CHOMA (Earth), CHOROS (Space) and TROCHIA (Orbit).

Wolfgang Biedermann, CEO of RapidEye AG, explains what expectations customers from around the globe have of the RapidEye satellite system, “With our satellite constellation, we are able to observe large areas of our earth with a high revisit rate in high spatial resolution. The earth observation data obtained with our system is the basis for important management information services that haven’t been commercially available until now, especially in the agriculture and forestry industries. We expect to play a decisive role in the quickly growing geospatial information market.”

“Earth observation satellites achieve weather, climate and environmental monitoring with the highest precision worldwide.The federal government pursues a leading position for Germany and wants to offer German companies a better chance in the European and global markets to commercialize their products and services. For this purpose, the government has created a positive business environment for the industry and specifically targets projects concerned with this topic. Germany has supported the RapidEye project through the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in this Public/Private Partnership,” explains State Secretary for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Jochen Homann when discussing the commitment of Germany to RapidEye.

Brandenburg’s state Minister for Economic Affairs, Ulrich Junghanns, who was represented at RapidEye’s launch event by Brandenburg’s Head Official of the Ministry of Economics Michael Richter, explains, “There is a growing need for geospatial information. Market surveys show good chances for the geoinformation sciences to tap into new and innovative markets, therefore it’s a growing area which is supported by the state of Brandenburg’s Business Development in particular. RapidEye AG is a key investment project for the development of this industry with a bright future in Germany’s capital area. Their abilities will be particularly needed and recognized worldwide for their environmental monitoring and early detection of risks, since RapidEye can monitor large areas within a short amount of time.”

The significance of RapidEye’s data for scientific purposes is highlighted by Dr. Hans-Peter Lüttenberg, Head of the earth observation department at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), “We have been convinced from the beginning about RapidEye’s business model and have been supporting them from the start. From the image data from the RapidEye satellite constellation, we hope for new findings in research for Geo-sciences and Environmental studies. A long existing gap in demand will be closed with RapidEye’s service offerings.”

Dr. Dietrich Heine, Deputy Chairman of RapidEye’s Supervisory Board emphasizes the importance of this project: “This constellation of five satellites with their special sensors makes RapidEye the first Geospatial Service Provider worldwide able to reliably deliver large quantities of high resolution images from every point of the earth. A wide variety of information can be derived about the earth for a myriad of uses. RapidEye’s services for the agricultural sector will become more and more important in the course of globalization, since they can provide better planning tools and allow for more efficient land utilization.“

“This has been a huge undertaking that could not have been realized without the commitment of our investors, partners and our dedicated team in the last 10 years. I would like to thank everyone that contributed to this project on this special day. We are looking forward to the first images from the satellites, which will set another important milestone in the Geo-Information sector,” remarked Wolfgang Biedermann, RapidEye’s CEO.

About RapidEye AG
RapidEye is an ISO-certified geospatial information provider focused on integrating customized and industry specific solutions into the workflow of global customers in agriculture, forestry, energy, infrastructure, government, security and emergency. RapidEye’s experts and the satellite system – a constellation of five satellites capable of downloading over 4 million km² of high resolution, multi-spectral imagery per day, a control station and a ground segment for processing and archiving data – allow for cost effective, customized services. The unique combination of large area coverage, high spatial resolution and the possibility of daily revisit to an area provide for superior management information solutions. Currently more than 90 experts from more than 20 countries worldwide are employed by RapidEye. Following a successful launch, plans are being made to increase the team to over 140.
For more information, please visit www.rapideye.de
For updated information on the launch, please visit www.rapideye.de/launch2008

About DLR
DLR is Germany´s national research center for aeronautics and space. Its extensive research and development work in Aeronautics, Space, Transportation and Energy is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. As Germany´s space agency, DLR has been given responsibility for the forward planning and the implementation of the German space program by the German federal government as well as for the international representation of German interests. Furthermore, Germany’s largest project-management agency is also part of DLR.
Approximately 5,700 people are employed in DLR´s 29 institutes and facilities at thirteen locations in Germany: Koeln (headquarters), Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Goettingen, Hamburg, Lampoldshausen, Neustrelitz, Oberpfaffenhofen, Stuttgart, Trauen and Weilheim. DLR also operates offices in Brussels, Paris, and Washington D.C.
For more information on the DLR please visit www.dlr.de

Contact:

RapidEye AG
Molkenmarkt 30
14776 Brandenburg a. d. Havel
press@rapideye.de

Basing its strength on the experience acquired during ESA Envisat Mission development and Ground Segment integration, the company aims to increase the competence on complex systems integration, testing and applications development specifically related to the Space sector.


Chelys launches new portal dedicated to Earth Observation

Chelys has recently launched a Web Portal devoted to the observation of the Earth. It includes commented satellite images as well as information on storms, hurricanes, fires and meteorological phenomena. The link is: http://www.eosnap.com

Chelys presents new satellite mosaic generation system, MOSRI, at 2nd ESA Meris/AATSR user workshop

In the field of earth observation and distributing satellite imagery, Chelys has developed and provided ESA with a system that generates high resolution images in real time, MIRAVI. The speed of generation and the systematic generation of the images has allowed us to create an additional service for generating Mosaics in real time (MOSRI). The themed mosaic is made of the projection (usually cylindrical) of many images which are combined together in order to obtain a continuous, homogeneous map of a determined zone on Earth (or of the entire Earth).

For every single image generated by the Envisat/MERIS sensor, the MOSRI software proceeds to calculate the projection, remove the clouds and make a combination with the images elaborated previously. The mosaics are available just a few seconds after the generation of the Miravi images and can be viewed as single images or “navigated” using software like Google Earth™ o NASA WorldWind.

MOSRI will be presented at the upcoming 2nd ESA Meris/AATSR user workshop.

VEGA Group PLC (VEGA), the specialist professional services company, has been awarded a three-year contract with a potential two-year extension, by the European Space Agency’s Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN). It is worth €3.45m during the first year, with a total value of €9.6m over the first three years.

The IDEAS (Instrument Data quality Evaluation and Analysis Service) consortium, headed by VEGA, will provide an operational service to monitor the quality of Earth Observation (EO) instrument data from ESA satellites and some external missions. Specific tasks include the detection of space and ground segment anomalies and trends, the provision of scientific and technical support to users of EO instrument data, and the maintenance and evolution of the various instrument data processing facilities. In addition, the service will provide a flexible and scalable environment to support future EO missions and technology.

Building upon VEGA’s experience and knowledge of EO activities, and specifically of the Sensor Performance and Product Assessment (SPPA) domain, this contract will provide a managed service to ESRIN with an emphasis on user–orientated service provision, as well as providing an open multi-mission architecture working across several sites, each with its own area of expertise. This contract is an import step for ESA as it evolves its EO activities in line with the objectives of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme, a joint European Union/ESA initiative to provide high-quality environmental information to the people who need it, such as scientists, policy-makers and aid agencies.

John Auburn, Group Business Development Director for VEGA, said: “This is a great achievement for VEGA, strengthening our position as a key supplier within ESRIN. For this contract, we recognised the requirement for a managed service that goes beyond the current routine Data Processing and Quality Control activities. We therefore created a well respected team of experts within the Earth Observation domain that will focus on meeting comprehensive service level agreements, through a robust management structure.”

Source VEGA

Officially recognized by the international scientific community since 1954, aeronomy is the science of terrestrial, planetary and cometary atmospheres. A discipline with a bright future to which the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) provides its dynamics and know-how.

Combining scientific research and the development of scientific services destined for society and users, this is the credo of the BIRA-IASB, which intends to place fundamental research in the service of society. More than ever, research is turning to valorization; valorization that takes into account potential economic and social applications of the works carried out.

On this basis, the BIRA-IASB has developed two major research domains. The first one involves the chemistry and physics of planetary atmospheres, more precisely of the Earth, Venus, Mars and cometary atmospheres. Resolutely multidisciplinary, aeronomy tries to better understand the evolution of the chemical composition of the atmospheres (gas content and other components) and therefore takes its place at the centre of current concerns about climate change, air pollution and air quality. Aeronomy therefore aims to grasp the complexity of the processes at work in the upper atmosphere.

The second research domain conducted by the BIRA-IASB involves interactions between the sun and the earth and interplanetary space plasma. For that matter, space exploration fully benefits from the research carried out in this area: the propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere, dangerousness of the radiation belts for astronauts and electronic equipment on spacecrafts, etc. Similarly, telecommunications are at the centre of research conducted on the impact of atmospheric braking and of magnetic storms on the course of satellites.

Aware of the practical use of its work, the BIRA-IASB has therefore developed, in addition to the base of valorization scientific research, an approach with a double objective: helping researchers to devise applications that can be used by the greatest numbers and emphasizing, among politicians and the general public, the importance of public investment in research, and this in balance with fundamental research.

State-of-the-art observation technology

Aeronomy deploys observation methods on Earth as well as in space: ground stations, stratospheric balloons, satellites, shuttles and space stations. At the same time, BIRA-IASB researchers take part in major international programmes for the measurement of UV rays, ozone, etc. In full development, space instruments are the subject of European collaboration in the framework of the European Space Agency (ESA) and also in a bilateral framework.

Spectroscopy, observations through occultation, measurements in the laboratory and modeling work, complete the range of tools used. In fact, laboratory models re-creating a virtual atmosphere are required for the proper interpretation of teledetection measurements, and, consequently, for the determination of measured gases and aerosols.
Capitalizing on the most advanced calculation methods, these models are scientifically and operationally qualified to predict evolution of medium- and long-term changes: a major asset to define the steps to be taken in the fight against global warming and to become a major player in key sectors such as “chemical weather”.

A range of scientific services in full expansion

Internationally recognized for its global competences in terms of atmospheric research, the BIRA-IASB is strongly developing its research on the action of sun rays, largely responsible for ionization and dissociation phenomena that can be observed in the planetary atmospheres. Satellites and airplanes are also highly affected by the eruptions of ionizing solar particles: in this respect, BIRA-IASB space-weather expertise will lead to significant commercial prospects.

This is precisely the objective of the valorization of research in atmospheric chemistry and physics: by making use of its instruments able to measure ozone, UV rays or air quality. The BIRA offers a range of concrete and easy-to-use products. This opening strategy is supported by the B.USOC (Belgian User Support and Operation Centre), in charge of meeting expectations of potential users in search of microgravity applications. For its users, the international space station (ISS) is the preferred site for the experimentation with measurement instruments in a microgravity environment.

Figure:Visible UV measurement instruments at the Uccle station

Being linked to NASA, the B.USOC provides for the preparation of experiments, the operational nature of the instruments used and ensures their promotion in view of their use on board satellites. This new prospect will boost the B.USOC’s essential role in the promotion strategy of the BIRA-IASB.

Multiple partnerships

Very involved in international scientific research networks, the BIRA-IASB takes active part in the activities of the European Space Agency and contributes to the formulation of new proposals in the context of the European framework programmes for research and technological development. Similarly, the BIRA-IASB is an active party in the second leading European Commission project: GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), of which the fourth pilot project, focused on the atmosphere, should allow to provide politicians and the general public with services measuring ozone, aerosols, the UV index, air quality, etc.

The BIRA-IASB is developing these products in cooperation with industrialists and numerous Belgian universities (University of Liège, UCL, KU Leuven, Universities of Ghent and Antwerp, etc.).

At a time when issues linked to climate change and to the impact of human activities on the atmosphere have become critical, the BIRA-IASB’s mission is to initiate young people in the working of the atmosphere and more generally to give rise to scientific vocations in order to better prepare the future.

Figures: ENVISAT and Jungfraujoch Station

BIRA-IASB
Belgian Institute For Space Aeronomy
Ringlaan 3, Avenue Circulaire
B-1180 Brussels
Tel.: +32(0)2 373 04 04
Fax: +32(0)2 374 84 23
E-mail: info@aeronomie.be
http://www.aeronomie.be

Presence in Farnborough. Summer School. LIMES in Cyprus


Telespazio takes part in the Farnborough Airshow 2008
(09/07/2008). Telespazio is to take part in the Farnborough International Airshow 2008 that will be held near London from 14 to 20 July. As one of the world’s leading operators in satellite services, Telespazio will be exhibiting within the Finmeccanica stand its activities in the sectors of earth observation, integrated communications, navigation and in-orbit satellite control.

Telespazio promotes International Summer School at the Fucino Space Centre
(07/07/2008). The first highly-specialised Summer School on flight dynamics is to be held at the Fucino Space Centre, managed by Telespazio from 7 to 11 July 2008. Lecturers from the US universities of Illinois and Princetown and Rome’s “La Sapienza” university, together with Telespazio experts will take part in the initiative dedicated to “numerical methods in astrodynamics”.

Successful demonstration of LIMES in Cyprus
(02/07/2008). A demonstration of the LIMES (Land and Sea Integrated Monitoring for European Security) project – co-ordinated by Telespazio – took place successfully in Cyprus from 7 to 12 June. LIMES is an Integrated Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 6° Framework Programme.

This year the annual Conference and Exhibition of the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) took place in Rome at the “Nuova Fiera”.

The high number of attendees, the quality of the technical workshops, as well as the scientific profile of the speakers during the conference sessions have confirmed the importance of this event, now representing a point of reference worldwide for the scientific and technical community working in the oil & gas sector.

“We are really very happy for the growing visibility TRE is gaining within the oil&gas sector. The success of our booth at the EAGE exhibition in Rome clearly shows how this sector now appreciates the potential of remote sensing technologies for supporting reservoir monitoring activities, whether for primary or enhanced oil recovery processes, or for CO2 sequestration. In particular, more and more companies are now convinced that PSInSAR™ data are a unique source of information that will become a standard monitoring tool”; quotes Alessandro Ferretti, TRE Managing Director.

Source TRE

SENER opens new offices


SENER OPENS OFFICES IN ALGIERS AND SAN FRANCISCO| 02/07/2008 |

SENER has recently opened a new office in the USA, in the San Francisco Financial District. This opening forms part of the company’s internationalisation process. The company hopes to coordinate projects all over the United States from this headquarters, particularly in the thermosolar energy field, for the implementation of turnkey engineering and construction projects for concentration solar energy plants. SENER has been testing the solar market in the USA for some time, and the new office therefore starts off with a big potential work portfolio.

In the same internationalisation process, SENER has opened a new office in Algeria, in the residential district of El Biar, in the city of Algiers. SENER, present on the Algerian market with big civil engineering projects, hopes to consolidate its business in this country with the introduction of short to medium-term production methods and local collaboration, and, finally with the diversification of its work in subsectors such as Railways, Ports and Airports. It is also looking for opportunities in the emblematic buildings subsector and as well as in hydraulic engineering. To date, the office is carrying out work such as the Oran tram, the Ouargla tram, the extension of the Algiers metro, the new Saida – Moulay Slissen railway for the Société Nationale des Transports Ferroviaires (SNTF), the modernisation of the electrified mining line in the East of Algeria (Tebessa), the Annaba – Ramdane Djamel stretch for OHLANESRIF, five control towers for the airports of Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Ghardaïa and Tamanrasset, and the extension of the Port of Arzew.

SENER WINS THE PRINCE FELIPE AWARD FOR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE| 19/06/2008 |

SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. has won Prince Felipe Award for Business Excellence in the ‘Technological Innovation for Large Companies’ thanks to its CAD/CAE/CAM FORAN software.

The FORAN System, designed by the company in the 1960s, is currently one of the most used maritime construction programmes in the world, present in 130 shipyards in more than 27 countries. With this award, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce acknowledges this software as a relevant technological product with proven success in Spain and abroad.

SENER’s chairman, Jorge Sendagorta, picked up the award for Technological Innovation for Large Companies from His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias in the event that took place in the Madrid Municipal Conference Centre this morning, Thursday 19 June.

This award signifies the recognition of SENER’s track record, which in its 52 years experience has succeeded in establishing itself amongst the leading positions in International engineering in such different areas as Aerospace, Maritime, Energy and Processes engineering and Civil engineering and Architecture, and has cultivated a culture of excellence, recognised in all its projects.

In this 12th edition of the Prince Felipe Awards, SENER has also nominated in the ‘Business Competitiveness for Large Companies’ category.

SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas is now the leading multidisciplinary engineering firm in Spain, with a workforce of over 1,900 employees and a turnover of over 311 million euros. The company has offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Seville, Algiers, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Mexico DF, Okayama (Japan), San Francisco and Warsaw.

SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas forms part of SENER Grupo de Ingeniería, the largest Spanish engineering group, with more than 4,500 employees and a turnover of over 753 million euros.

Its excellence culture is based on the corporate values of commitment to quality, independence and innovation in which the company invests 10% of its resources, enabling it to take part in some of the most technologically groundbreaking projects in recent years in all its business areas.

More info: http://www.foran.es

Source “SENER”:

The general aim of the BALWOIS Project is to create a community of major stakeholders in the field of water protection and water management involving scientists, private sector, experts, NGO’s, decision makers and broader public around the Balkans.

BALWOIS 2008 was organised by IB2E, METEO MAK, Hydrobiological Institute of Ohrid, Faculty of Civil Engineering at the “Sts. Cyril & Methodius” University in Skopje, University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – Bitola, the Hydrometeorological Service of Macedonia, and the Remote Sensing Application Centre (ReSAC, Bulgaria) under the patronage of the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of the Republic of Macedonia and of the French Ambassador in Skopje.

ReSAC was one of the sponsors of the conference together with SPOT Image, who both participated as exhibitors of their services and products. ReSAC’s experts presented a report on the topic “Remote Sensing for the purposes of the Integrated Water Resources Management: Examples from Bulgaria”. Further, a joint workshop of ReSAC and SPOT Image was held with the thematic titles “From Satellite Data Distribution to Application Provision, Education and Consultation” and “Study for the integration of satellite imagery in the operational procedures of risk management in Bulgaria”.

Source RESAC