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ScanEx RDC is the oldest and largest company in the Russian ERS market: in the autumn of 2014 it will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Starting with the production of small meteorological stations, the company has grown into a true leader on the Russian market of space data reception and processing.

This was made possible thanks to the creation of a unique for Russia process flow that covers reception to proprietary ground stations, processing and interpretation of spatial data, geoportal and GIS technology and own software to handle Earth remote sensing data. Customers of ScanEx RDC are large private and public entities, non-profit organizations, educational and research institutions. ScanEx carries out projects in various industries and constantly develops its products.

UniScan™ satellite data reception and processing stations can receive data from a variety of remote sensing satellites – from Terra, Aqua or FY-3 to such as Spot-6/7, Kompsat-3 or Landsat-8. This feature has already been appreciated not only in the national, but also in foreign markets – UniScan™ stations are used in the U.S., Spain, Vietnam, UAE, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Belarus.

In June 2014 a subsidiary of ScanEx – “SPUTNIKS” company – opened a new direction in business, launching Russia’s first private remote sensing satellite – “TabletSat-Aurora”. Satellite’s weight is 26 kg; the minimum expected lifespan is 1 year. The spacecraft’s payload is the optical camera to capture images of the Earth from space with a resolution of 15 meters per pixel and a swath width of 45 km. Data from this micro-satellite are to be received by a network of Uniscan™ ground stations and will be used in commercial, scientific, educational, and environmental projects. The satellite platform, most of the systems and equipment have been developed by “SPUTNIKS” company alone with the financial support of the Skolkovo Foundation and ISC “Kosmotras”. Currently, the company is considering “TabletSat” as a universal platform for installation of scientific and applied payload and for low-orbit communications solutions. Aurora project’s budget is USD1 million. The company aims at the creation of a constellation of very high resolution SSVs (small-size satellite), delivering 1 meter resolution images.

The largest private customer of ScanEx RDC is Yandex – the leader of the Russian market in search engine technology and Internet services. Starting in 2007, ScanEx is the sole provider of satellite imagery to Yandex. In addition to the direct supply of space images, ScanEx agrees with world RS Operators the required legal issues and carries out data processing, customizing it to the Yandex.Maps service requirements.

One of the biggest public clients of ScanEx RDC is the EMERCOM of Russia, with which the company has been cooperating for more than 15 years already. One of the most advanced systems of emergencies monitoring from space (Emergency Space Monitoring System), having no parallel both on the national and international levels, has been created at the EMERCOM based on the ScanEx’s technology. The unique feature of this system is that it is integrated into the work of the Operational Department of the National Center for Crisis Management and the results of its operation are used for real time decision-making. The main tasks of the Emergency Space Monitoring System are routine monitoring of the country territory with high frequency and low resolution, as well as optical and an all-weather radar imagery of an area of interest using space vehicles of medium, high and very-high resolution for emergency forecasting and response. Most of the data for this project is supplied by ScanEx RDC. One of the most topical applications of the Emergency Space Monitoring System in Russia is monitoring of fire situation, of spring floods on Russian rivers, as well as monitoring of critical flood situations occurring as a result of heavy rains. One of the main sources of impartial information are the operational monitoring data from EROS B, SPOT 5, SPOT 6 and RADARSAT-2 satellites. Their detailed analysis allows detecting the exact area of the flooded areas, arranging urgent evacuation of the inhabitants of the affected residential areas, assessing the damage as a result of flood and planning response and further flooding preventive actions.

Below are the examples of the work carried out by ScanEx RDC in 2014 for EMERCOM of Russia:

  • imagery of the railway accident in Kirov Region;
  • near-real time imagery of the landslide on the North Caucasus Railway;
  • near-real time imagery and analysis of the flood situation in the Republic of Komi, Tomsk Region, Altai Territory and other regions of the Russian Federation.

Another unique project of the company in the field of operational monitoring from space is the “Kosmosnimki – Fires” service (http://fires.kosmosnimki.ru). This is an open interactive portal with on-line display of natural fires on the territory of Russia and neighboring countries, indicating their square area and coordinates. A fire alert service has been recently launched and tested.  Operability of the “Kosmosnimki – Fires” service on Russian territory is higher than that of the FIRMS system, because ScanEx RDC uses its own “UniScan™”: http://www.scanex.ru/en/stations/default.asp?submenu=uniscan&id=index network of stations for satellite data reception and processing. The service will soon integrate data acquired from Suomi NPP and FengYun (3A, 3B, 3C) satellites. Fires are detected automatically via infrared bands. On average, the “Kosmosnimki -Fires” service enables to visualize open fire sites and smoldering fires covering the square area starting from 1/10 acres. Alert service clients determine the boundaries of “their” territory, which requires monitoring, and if a fire occurs within this outlined area or around it (for example, when a “buffer” radius is specified), the information about the fire and its coordinates is promptly delivered in the form of a report.

Information about fires is free for access to the public. The commercial part of the project – additional alerts broadcasting channels, such as SMS, API for programmatic access to information about fires, as well as the guaranteed technical support. Currently, the components of the “Kosmosnimki – Fires” system are used in the “Kosmoplan” geoportal of EMERCOM, in the geoportal of the Murmansk Region Department for Civil Defense and Emergency, by the administrations of Russian strict nature reserves; projects of the RF Ministry of Natural Resources and of other environmental organizations such as WWF have been implemented as well based on this system.

Popularity of ScanEx’s proprietary software for space data handling keeps growing. In particular, the ScanEx Image Processor (SIP) software has found new customers in the markets of Middle East and Asia. In May ScanEx RDC and the Lebanese company GeoMasters Middle East signed a dealer agreement, according to which the latter becomes the official distributor of ScanEx Image Processor software (SIP) in the Middle East countries. Starting from June 2014, the ScanEx Image Processor software (SIP) began to be distributed and used in Nepal. Four Nepalese companies at a time became new users of this software for satellite images processing. The software was supplied through an Indian dealer – SATPALDA

One of the strategic directions of the ScanEx RDC activities is the operational monitoring of ice situation along the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic Region. Application of near-real time satellite data on ice conditions enables to reduce time of a caravan transit by optimizing the shipping routes and, ultimately, to improve the safety of navigation through severe northern seas. Images are acquired using RADARSAT-2 radar satellite (in both Standard and Fine modes) and TerraSAR-X (ScanSAR and StripMap modes), as well as using optical EROS B satellite data available in near real-time. This was made possible thanks to the direct reception of satellite images to own network of Uniscan™ ground stations and the use of the geoportal technology for data visualization. The following customers build up the list of ScanEx’s clients in the Arctic: FSUE “Atomflot”, “Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) public agency, oil companies and other commercial and scientific organizations.

In general, the specialists of the ScanEx mark a rapid growth of interest on the market of Russia and CIS countries to Earth remote sensing data and to opportunities that they offer.

Surface deformation monitoring can provide valuable information about the dynamic behaviour of reservoirs under production. Measuring these deformations can help to identify undepleted compartments, detect fault reactivation, mitigate risks associated with well failure, constrain geomechanical models, and aid field management decisions. We have demonstrated that satellite InSAR is a powerful tool to measure surface movement and is useful for managing reservoirs under production.

SqueeSAR™ is the latest InSAR algorithm developed by TRE. The InSAR analysis covers a stacked carbonate reservoir in the Middle East. The top reservoir is a mature gas with a depth of approximately 750 m, which is known to compact. The lowest reservoir is an oil reservoir with a 1200 m depth produced by a water-flood.

Both reservoirs are intersected by a major graben fault, trending NE-SW, as well as numerous additional extensional faults. Approximately 500 producer and injector wells have been drilled in the area.

A comparison with existing GPS measurements has shown a good agreement between InSAR and GPS data.

We have also inverted InSAR data using a geomechanical model to obtain reservoir strains. These compare well with pressure change maps from reservoir simulations. There is also an intriguing correlation between known fault systems at the reservoir level and the surface displacement data by satellite InSAR.

Figure 1 Ground surface response to hydrocarbon extraction. Red circles represent the surface coverage of extracting wells. Arrows indicate horizontal surface movement (East-West).

Project Background

Surface deformation monitoring can provide valuable information about the dynamic behaviour of reservoirs under production.

Measuring these deformations can help to identify undepleted compartments, detect fault reactivation, mitigate risks associated with well failure, constrain geomechanical models, and aid field management decisions.

We have demonstrated that satellite InSAR is a powerful tool to measure surface movement and is useful for managing a reservoir under production.

Issues & Needs

Consistently updated information about surface subsidence and contraction over oil fields is required to efficiently manage the operation.

Solution

One ascending (Envisat satellite) and one descending (RADARSAT-1 satellite) datasets were acquired during the period 2004–2007. Envisat is comprised of 20 images acquired with a 35-day repeat pass, while Radarsat-1 is comprised of 34 images acquired with a 24-day repeat pass. Combining the double geometry datasets, the vertical and horizontal components of surface deformation can be calculated with SqueeSAR™.

A comparison with existing GPS measurements from permanent and rover stations has shown a good agreement both for the vertical and horizontal components.

This suggests that SqueeSAR™ is suitable for monitoring surface deformation changes with high accuracy.

By comparing InSAR data with the known faults at reservoir level, an intriguing correlation is evident between the known fault system and the gradient of the subsidence field.

Results & Perspectives

Surface deformation monitoring can provide valuable information about the dynamic behaviour of reservoirs under production. Compacting reservoirs induce surface subsidence, as well as contraction.

Measuring these deformations can help to identify undepleted compartments, detect fault reactivation, mitigate risks associated with well failure, constrain geomechanical models, and aid field management decisions.

Compared to other techniques (e.g. GPS, optical levelling, tiltmeter), only satellite interferometry (InSAR) provides a full areal coverage for surface deformation monitoring with a measurement point every few meters, which is highly cost-efficient. The distance of neighbouring measurement points for all other techniques is in the range of hundreds to thousands of meters. Therefore, the actual measurements have to be interpolated in order to obtain a displacement field. This suggests that features with a shorter length scale might not be detected.

The availability of an analytical geomechanical model of the reservoir allows a translation of the surface deformation obtained by InSAR into information at the reservoir level, such as the pressure change map.

The availability of two components (vertical and horizontal) of the displacement field provides a significantly improvement of the quality of the parameter estimation at the reservoir level.
The comparison of the pressure change maps obtained from reservoir simulation and the estimations gained from InSAR data highlights a strong compatibility.

Related Info

InSAR is an operational tool for measuring surface deformation with different applications in a variety of market sectors, including oil and gas.

SqueeSAR™ is the latest InSAR technique developed by TRE. It is at the forefront of technology, providing millimeter accuracy displacement for a variety of measurement points across wide areas.
SqueeSAR™ works with all radar (SAR) satellites currently acquiring or having acquired data in the past.

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(Jul 2014) EOMAP GmbH & Co. KG, a leading provider of aquatic remote sensing solutions, has launched the EOMAP Web Store where clients have direct access to global water quality and bathymetric data products derived from satellite imagery. Powered by the CloudEO geo-collaboration platform, the online store is available now at www.eomap.com/store.

The EOMAP Web Store enables clients to instantly purchase worldwide off-the-shelf eoBathymetry 15/30m products and order subscriptions to the eoWaterQuality 30/500m service for continuous water quality monitoring over selected geographic areas of interest. The easy-to-use web store allows clients to search for appropriate products by location and date and place their orders online. “By offering these products through the automated EOMAP Web Store, we can provide our customers with faster access to the satellite-derived data solutions they need at a significantly reduced cost,” said Dr. Thomas Heege, EOMAP CEO. “Up-to-date, standardized aquatic information has never been easier to access and incorporate into the business workflow.”

Delivered on a per-project basis for the past several years through the EOMAP processing center near Munich, EOMAP eoWaterQuality and eoBathymetry offerings for many geographic areas are available off-the-shelf through the Web Store, where custom orders may also be placed.

All EOMAP products are derived from a variety of satellite systems, including Landsat 7 and 8, MODIS Aqua and Terra, and soon upcoming Sentinel 2 and 3 satellites. Current off-the-shelf products are offered at 15/30- and 500-meter resolution, but they can be integrated with higher resolution products, using data from WorldView-2, Kompsat-3 and RapidEye. EOMAP products are relied upon extensively by industries ranging from aquaculture, oil & gas, and desalination to environmental monitoring, navigation and hydrography.

The standard EOMAP eoWaterQuality service is offered at two resolution levels – 30 and 500 meters. Both offerings monitor turbidity and related suspended matter, organic absorption, chlorophyll and related algal blooms in water bodies. Designed for monitoring of large coastal zones and inland waterways, the eoWaterQuality 500 service can deliver daily updates, as requested. Priority delivery within hours of satellite acquisition is available for first continents. The EOMAP eoWaterQuality 30 offering can monitor coastal and inland waterways, including smaller water bodies, up to four times per month.

EOMAP eoBathymetry provides bathymetric data for water areas worldwide, often within less than 24hours after ordering. It is created from 30m spatial resolution satellite imagery and sharpened to 15m using additional satellite sensor information. The products cover shallow-water coastal areas to average depths of 20 meters.

The EOMAP Web Store is the first customized online geospatial portal powered by the geo-collaboration platform technology of CloudEO AG in Munich, which offers clients the IT power, data access and software tools to develop products and services. In addition, the CloudEO Store platform enables clients to market those products and services. The EOMAP Web Store is a customized version of the CloudEO Store. “EOMAP’s impressive offering of globally available geospatial products and services are ideal for direct purchases by customers worldwide through the Web Store” said Dr. Ursula Benz, CloudEO COO.

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The sixth edition of the Summit on Earth Observation Business will take place from September 11 to 12, 2014 at its usual venue, the Westin Hotel in Paris.

Over the last six years, this summit has grown to become today the only event that brings together over 200 top management and senior government officials from EO satellite operators, manufacturers, launch service providers, data distributors, service providers and end-users (military, civil government and private) from 40 different countries.

The summit features a unique high-level program comprising 30 senior government officials and senior executives, including the CEOs of all the commercial EO satellite operators. The series of thematic round-table discussions and keynote presentations cover all the levels of the EO value chain, from manufacturers to end users, with special regional focuses that are varied from year to year.

Below you will find a sample of themes that will be covered:

  • Civil government agencies’ priorities for EO usage in Asia
  • Development strategies for EO operators
  • Regional focuses on national EO programs in Africa and the Middle East

To consult the full program, visit our website.

The summit’s high-level program, social events and private meeting spaces create an ideal opportunity for the leaders defining the future of the sector to come together and meet to discuss future strategies and opportunities for their companies.

Previous attendees or speakers have included leading Earth observation companies or institutions such as ESA, NOAA, EUSC, UNOSAT, CRESDA (China), RESTEC (Japan), NSPO (Taiwan), JSC “National Company Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary”, AGEOS (Gabon), EIAST (UAE), NASRDA (Nigeria), NGA, German MoD, French MoD, Google, Microsoft, Total, BP, KSat, Fugro, Sovzond, EUSI, DigitalGlobe, Airbus Defence & Space, e-GEOS, ImageSat, Skybox Imaging, Satrec Initiative, Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, OSC, SSTL, Thales Alenia Space, etc.

To view the detailed agenda including all panels and presentations, consult the event website.
For registration or further information, visit or contact Kim Joly (+33 1 49 23 75 28)
2014 SEOB – Program for EARSC EOMag.pdf

Skybox Imaging has been all over the news lately because of their innovative satellite imaging constellation which, when complete, will contain 24 satellites giving the capability to image sites multiple times daily. What potential applications will such a service inspire?

This is the central question for the European Space Imaging & Skybox Imaging High-Res Challenge being offered as part of the Copernicus Masters this year. Working together with European Space Imaging, Skybox is looking for new ideas for their constellation imagery that takes advantage of this new potential.

Since they are a company thinking outside the box when it comes to offering satellite services they are encouraging would-be participants to do the same. The unique aspect of the High-Res Challenge is that it is only seeking ideas not a finished product.
“We believe ideas are the driving force behind change and development in remote sensing. We hope to inspire candidates to think beyond the boundaries of the imaginable and take us into the unexpected future somewhere. We are looking to be surprised.” says Michaela Weber, Director of Sales & Marketing, European Space Imaging.

Get your proposal over the line

Last year’s winner Györk Fülöp offers some tips for prospective participants wishing to complete their European Space Imaging & Skybox Imaging High-Res Challenge proposals before the coming deadline.

You have already logged on and registered. You have filled in some information but are procrastinating about finishing the final details. The deadline is looming. With about two weeks before the close of the European Space Imaging & Skybox Imaging High-Res you know you want to get over the line to have the chance to win €20,000 of imagery.

For the home stretch Györk Fülöp offers candidates some tips on how to get their proposal over the line. He says…

  • “Keep it simple: Let your friend understand it over a cup of coffee!”
  • “Keep it on the target: Draw up the problem, illustrate it, and solve it!”
  • “Sleep on your answers: And next day review it before continuing!”
  • “Think out of the box and out of your head: Don’t stand in the main-stream, but judge your idea with somebody else’s eyes.”

Györk Fülöp won the European Space Imaging High-Res Challenge in 2013. His idea focused on adding value to environmentally friendly agronomic activities producing crops with a smaller ecological footprint, and certifying this activity. Regular observations via very high-resolution satellite data and radar images will prove if farmers’ activities use less ecological footprint. Györk currently receives European Space Imaging data worth and ongoing support.

Submissions are open worldwide until midnight Central European Time (CET) Sunday 22 July 2014. For more information: www.eusi-skybox.copernicus-masters.com

About European Space Imaging
European Space Imaging (EUSI) is a leading supplier of very high-resolution satellite imagery to customers in Europe and North Africa. It is the only European satellite data provider operating its own multi-mission capable VHR ground stations, enabling optimized collection strategies, flexibility and real-time weather assessments. Since 2002 the Munich based company has provided customers access to the most advanced VHR satellites and services available throughout their region. For more information, visit www.euspaceimaging.com
 
About Skybox Imaging

Skybox Imaging (Skybox) empowers global businesses to make better decisions with timely, high fidelity imagery and infinite analytics. By combining the power of web technologies and a constellation of high-resolution imaging satellites, Skybox is generating a unique data source describing daily global activity with timely, accessible, sub-meter color imagery and high definition video of the Earth. Founded in 2009, Skybox Imaging is backed by leading venture firms and comprised of internet and aerospace professionals. For more information, visit www.skybox.com

Few weeks after ESA’s Sentinel-1 launch, one of the first images from the satellite provided the means for mapping a Namibian flood, demonstrating the mission’s practical purpose and societal benefits as also featured in a press release by the European Commission and the European Space Agency on 8th May 2014.

In recent years, floods in Namibia have impacted hundreds of thousands of people, claiming lives, damaging the built environment, destroying agricultural lands and including consequential challenges like spreading waterborne diseases (i.e. malaria, cholera).

So far, flood extents could not be determined as monitoring from the ground is hampered by inaccessibility of affected areas. Also airborne-based monitoring proved to be challenging because of the cloudy weather conditions. However, the Sentinel-1 radar sensor provides all-weather, day and night cloud-free imagery enabling to acquire the flood extent in spite of bad weather conditions.

On 13th April, Sentinel-1 tuned in over Namibia capturing the flooding in the Caprivi plain from the Zambezi River. The open-source Water Observation and Information System (WOIS) of ESA’s TIGER-NET project (http://www.tiger-net.org), developed by GeoVille and GRAS DHI, was used to process the first S-1 data, extract the water body and create the flood map to be able to assess the flood extent. The data was downloaded and processed by TU-Vienna within less than three hours.

Thus, this monitoring capacity delivered data in near-real time, provided rapid response and supported the Namibian authorities in prioritising and planning emergency issues.

“As part of the good and ongoing cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture Water and Forestry, National Hydrological Services and the European Space Agency through TIGER-NET, Namibian has been privileged to be one of the first beneficiaries of the Sentinel- 1 satellite that was recently launched by the ESA.”
“The need for reliable and near real-time information is crucial in the field of operational hydrology for flood disaster management and mitigation. The recently launched Sentinel-1 satellite by ESA demonstrated that it has capabilities to acquire satellite data during rainy and difficult weather conditions and to monitor floods in near real time. Sentinel-1 depicted the mass inundation and flooding extent in the eastern floodplains of the Zambezi on 13 April 2014. This demonstrates how the use of satellite data can enhance and supplement operational hydrology in vast areas with limited accessibility and of trans-boundary nature.”
Pauline Mufeti, Head of Hydrological Services Namibia

For more information visit
See the EC press release
For more information on the TIGER-NET project

GeoVille Information Systems GmbH
Sparkassenplatz 2/ 315-325, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
phone: +43 512 562021 0
email: info@geoville.com

DHI GRAS-Geographic Resource Analysis & Science A/S
Geocenter Denmark, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
phone: +45 3532 2578
email: gras@grasdk.com

Summit on Earth Observation Business. 11-12 September 2014, The Westin, Paris.
With such a high-level program, the Summit attracts over 200 senior-level EO community representatives from all world regions, making the event an ideal opportunity to network, discuss local and global market issues and do business with international partners. The program will cover all levels of the value chain, from manufacturers to end users, and with focuses on particular regions, ensuring a one-stop-shop for all the information you need for your development.

Senior Executive Speakers Announced for the Summit on Earth Observation Business

We are pleased to announce the 6th Summit on Earth Observation Business (SEOB), which will take place on September 11 and 12, 2014 at the Westin Paris, as part of the World Satellite Business Week.

The unique international forum for the EO community

With such a high-level program, the Summit attracts over 200 senior-level EO community representatives from all world regions, making the event an ideal opportunity to network, discuss local and global market issues and do business with international partners.

  • 200+ top management and senior government officials
  • 40 high-level speakers
  • The entire value chain
  • 30+ countries
  • All world regions

Key topics will be discussed

The program will cover all levels of the value chain, from manufacturers to end users, and with focuses on particular regions, ensuring a one-stop-shop for all the information you need for your development. The success of this event grows every year and we are pleased to announce a selection of our confirmed executive-level speakers that come from all world regions and cover all levels of the value chain.

  • State of play and prospects for the EO sector
  • Leading high resolution EO operators: Adapting to market changes
  • User Forum:
    • Location Based Services
    • Energy
    • Environment
  • Access to space – current and future solutions for EO systems
  • Adapting requirements to new defense and security missions
  • New solutions from data to video
  • Regional Focus: Middle East & Africa
  • EO operators innovating to broaden the data market with new offers
  • Manufacturers: strategies for satellite to end-to-end solutions
  • Priorities of Asian civil government agencies
  • Data and service distribution strategies

Please have a look on our summit website
Euroconsult 6th SEOB 11-12 Sept .pdf

Providing Earth Observation and webGIS tools to locate and monitor underwater archaeological sites in coastal zone.

The monitoring of the underwater cultural heritage is a priority of Public authorities (e.g. Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Institutions and local entities) that deal with conservation and restoration activities. These public bodies need cost effective, reliable and systematic survey techniques and means to accomplish their mission and everyday work.

The ITACA (Innovation Technologies and Applications for Coastal Archaeological sites) project aims to prove a management system for underwater archaeological sites in coastal regions. The discovering and monitoring service uses innovative satellite remote sensing techniques combined with image processing algorithms. The project develops a set of applications integrated in a system that pursue the following objectives:

  • Search and location of ancient ship wrecks;
  • Monitoring of ship wrecks, ruins and historical artefacts that are now submerged;
  • Integration of resulting search and monitoring data with onsite data into a management tool for underwater sites;
  • Demonstration of the system’s suitability for a service.

ITACA project is coordinated by Planetek Hellas E.P.E.
http://www.planetek.it/eng/itaca


Figure 1. Ship wreck recorded using side-scan and processed

The space activities are very peculiar in their capacity of stemming growth and competitiveness and in their continental dimension are a strategic asset for peaceful competition and defense in troubled epoch. For these reasons, the Lisbon treaty define Space as a shared policy of the European Union, in some way a strategic asset for a global power.

At local scale, other peculiar capacities of space emerges, the dual faced development of sophisticated supply side and the stimulus of a modern, mostly but not only, public, demand side.

The term “Rocket Science” is not casual, in the last 50 years space systems have been at the heart of innovation race, leading to the development of a healthy industry ranging from advanced materials to informatics. Nevertheless as stimulating as the supply side is, the power of space service is no less fascinating.

The big question is, “how to harmonize the multiples dimensions of Space?”
To try to answer this question, the Puglia Region Aerospace Cluster (DTA) invited the European network of space regions (NEREUS), ESA, ASI, CNES and other 300 representatives to meet in Bari for the International Conference “Space4You – Space, a Driver for Competitiveness and Growth”. Read more:

Innovative Thinking, Creative Solutions

You are invited to attend GeoDATA 2014, a FREE* series of intuitive, one day seminars taking place in cities across the UK, Eire and Belgium.

We have created a seminar programme and supporting exhibition that is of immediate and practical relevance to every professional working with spatial data, products and services. Cutting edge presentations, real life case studies and examples of best practice offer you an excellent opportunity to explore geospatial technology and applications in this fast moving industry.

To find out more please visit the event website www.geoaware.info and take some time to view the content available including exhibitors, seminar topics and agendas.

Registration is now open online. So don’t miss out on this great opportunity and REGISTER TODAY

  • Dublin: 14 May 2014, Croke Park, Dublin. Agenda
  • Brussels: 3 June 2014, Novotel Brussels Airport, Brussels.
  • Glasgow: 4 November 2014, Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow.
  • Belfast: 20 November 2014, Stormont Hotel, Belfast.
  • London Showcase: 4 December 2014, Ilec Conference Centre, London.

Why Attend?

  • Explore latest spatial products and services
  • Discover cost savings
  • Interact with industry experts
  • Learn from successful projects
  • Receive expert advice
  • Attend for FREE*

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