Edition 57 | Spring 2019
Editorial
I am really pleased and proud to say that EARSC was awarded bronze place as the European Association of the year in the category for under 30 employees. This achievement is made even greater when we consider that we were entered in the category of “Association with less than 10 employees”, but mysteriously, the category was changed during the evaluations and we were beaten by two Associations with around 20 employees each. So really we are the golden European Association of the year (with under 10 employees)! […]
Interview
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Industry profile
SatSense is a spin out from the Earth and Environmental Department at the University of Leeds. They have developed algorithms to convert Sentinel-1 InSar readings to ground movement data at a level of resolution not previously possible from this satellite. [..]
EARSC Activities
IDEEO Workshop 7th of March
Press Release: IDEEO workshop on Earth Observation & International Market Development Opportunities & Challenges conclusion. [...]
European Association Awards
We are happy to announce that we have won bronze in the overall best European Association in the category less than 30 employees. Thank you all that support us! And thank you to the EARSC secretariat!
Agriculture workshop 27th of March & press release
The agricultural workshop co-organised with DG-AGRI from the Commission was a big success. The perspectives from both the policy makers and the commercial side were thoroughly explored during this workshop. [...]
Earsc news
- Data is Turning into Commodity – Geoff Sawyer, European Association of Remote Sensing Companies
- DIAS Comparison updated to include Wekeo
- Press release IDEEO workshop on Earth Observation & International Market Development Opportunities & Challenges conclusion
- Press release: OCRE enables easy cloud usage through the European Open Science Cloud
- Dredging in the Maledives SEBS case study published
- Navigating through sea ice off Greenland SEBS case study published
- EARSC EO Product Award 2019
- EO4GEO: Definition of the Sector Skills strategy to maximize the benefits of the project
- Boosting the EO Economy in the Blue Economy with Copernicus Marine Service: Survey on CMEMS
Member news
Geo4i and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Nowadays, we heard a lot about Artificial Intelligence. Considering his core business in imagery, Geo4i couldn’t ignore the potential of AI for his future developmen. [...]
GEO Premium and EO-VLab!
As you probably already know GEO Premium is our subscription package to get ALL of our online courses in a single pack, affordable! [...]
Volkswagen uses Terra Scan to secure lithium and cobalt resources
TerraScan examines raw material deposits such as Lithium- and Kobalt for strategic analyses of offer and demand for the E-mobility Industry and next generation car battery developments. [...]
IABG launches project ARIMA for natural hazards prevention
IABG´s project manager Felicitas Bellert kicked-off ‘ARIMA’ project on assessment and simulation of multi-hazard risks in the Marrakech-Safi region. [...]
Planet collaborates with BASF to provide daily monitoring for farmers in Europe
San Francisco, USA, and Ludwigshafen, Germany, December 12, 2018 – Planet, an integrated aerospace and data analytics company, and BASF today announced a commercial deal. [...]
DHI Gras one of the Recipients of Microsoft and National Geographic AI for Earth Innovation Grants
New grant offers awards of more than $1.2 million to advance uses of artificial intelligence in scientific exploration and research on critical environmental challenges. [...]
Thales Alenia Space Marks Key Milestone for the NanoRacks Airlock Module
The shell for Bishop is ready to be shipped for the first-ever commercial Airlock that will operate on the International Space Station. [...]
Sinergise Shares Example EO Data for Free in Order to Bring Closer the Fields of Remote Sensing and Machine Learning
In the past half year, Sinergise has published a series of blog posts on Medium. The blog posts describe the full process of how to start using satellite data in order to extract useful information using machine learning.[...]
European Space Imaging: Penguins From Space
In cooperation with European Space Imaging, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey embarked on a world first journey to find emperor penguins from space using very high resolution optical satellite imagery. [...]
Interactive web-based tool for user-driven analysis of Functional Regions in Europe
Gisat develops web based platform to support the update of ESPON Online Analytical Processing cube and to deliver practical and communicative web tool integrating the new ESPON OLAP cube functionalities. [...]
Agora Session: EO for the Energy Production Sector
As part of ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2019, held in Milan, we are organising a discussion session on the use of Earth Observation (EO) Data within the Energy Production sector. [...]
Earth-i completes its 3rd annual update of the satellite map of the state of Queensland, Australia
New Space pioneer Earth-i today announced that it has completed the third annual update of the satellite map of the state of Queensland. [...]
Vito: Can we use drones in disaster management?
Discover LUMEN, a low-cost, end-to-end solution that enables critical situation management, thanks to real-time drone imagery brought right to your desk from anywhere in the world. Video [...]
Eurosense at BeGeo Conference
Eurosense was present at the conference BeGeo 2019 on March 19th in Brussels, and was delighted to showcase its latest projects and to interact with other geospatial actors. Have a look at our LinkedIn page (link) to see some images of the booth, and also a wall with different pictures from the 55 years of history of Eurosense.
Wasat launched Jupyteo.com service
In April 2019 Wasat launched Jupyteo.com service: IDE environment, based on the popular Jupyter Notebooks technology, focused on processing of EO data in the cloud. Users gain access both to data sets and to functions useful for their processing, visualization and sharing. [...]
MARINE–EO: Planetek Hellas leads consortium for the first Pre-Commercial Procurement in Europe on Earth Observation
Planetek Hellas, acting as the prime in the submitting company grouping, together with Planetek Italia, CMCC, KSAT and Creotech Instruments, has been awarded the MARINE-EO PCP Phase 2 project for the design, development, [...]
RUS Service by CS SI
The RUS Service is the “New Expert Service for Sentinel Users” funded by the European Commission, managed by the European Space Agency, and operated by CS and its partners Serco, Noveltis and Along-track [...]
Planetek launches “Back To The FutureEO” talk at LPS19
lanetek Italia is organizing the “Back To The FutureEO” Conference, which will happen on May 16th, 2019 from 16.00 h. to 19.00, in the context of the ESA's Living Planet Symposium 2019 next 13-17 May 2019 in Milan, Italy. [...]
EARSC member vacancies
EO news
- Dutch Space office: Innovative insurance service for farmers based on satellite data gets commercial follow up in Uganda
- EO4GEO: Earth Observation and Maritime Sector: how can they collaborate?
- Mercator Ocean International, the Azores Regional Government and NEREUS organize on June 6-7 2019 in Azores, Faial Island, Horta city, an event for maritime regions entitled “Copernicus Marine for Outermost and Maritime Regions“
- EO quality assurance workshop
- E.U. Copernicus cutting-edge sat tech to provide opportunities for jobs, environment in PHL
- The new DIAS voucher scheme for Copernicus Accelerator mentees
- New Horizons in the Digital Transformation of the Space Sector
Internationalisation
- EU brings Copernicus Earth observation program to Philippines
- Canada’s long-awaited space strategy emphasizes AI, EO and deep-space robotics
- Two Chinese Earth observation satellites put into service
- UN leads new united push on green tech solutions
- Africa: Earth Observation Data Offers Hope for Africa's Wetlands
Events
- April 9 till 10, 2019: Quality Assurance Workshop - ESRIN, Italy
- May 13 till 15, 2019: Living Planet Symposium Milan, Italy
- June 18 till 19, 2019: ENGAGE Conference Barcelona, Spain
- June 20 till 21, 2019: EARSC 30th anniversary & AGM Brussels, Belgium
- July 1 till July 4, 2019: 39th EARSeL Symposium Digital I Earth I Observation University of Salzburg, Austria
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