The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) & the Association of Geospatial Industries (AGI) sign MoU for strengthening relationships between European and Indian companies in the Geospatial Industry.

On April, 19-20, 2018 COMNEWS holds the 10th International Conference SATELLITE RUSSIA & CIS 2018 in Moscow, Russia.

EARSC is participating to the 2018 edition of GeoBuiz Summit, taking place from 15th-16th January, at HICC, Hyderabad, India. This year, the conference aims to contribute to the attendees’ experiences and knowledge and also provide directions and dimensions through the spirit of collaborative and collective intelligence.

EARSC is hosting a session with DG-Connect on e-infrastructures calls on 25 January 2018 in Brussels.

The workshop will be held on February 5th, 2018 in Rue van Maerlant 2, 1049 Brussels.

The ECOPOTENTIAL H2020 project, focusing its activities on blending Earth Observations from remote sensing, field measurements, data analysis and modelling of current and future ecosystem conditions and services, is organising the workshop “SPACED: Using Earth Observations to Protect Natural Landscapes” in Brussels on the 10th of January 2018, from 9.00 to 17:30.

EuroGEOSS is Europe’s part of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). It brings together all of the Earth observation resources available in Europe so that they can be used more effectively.

Extracted from the Copernicus Observer Newsletter

Brussels, 1 December 2017. The Copernicus Programme with its full, free and open data policy is tapping into the core of the open data movement that is powering today’s tech breakthroughs, just like open source has been key to most of the innovation in the last decades.

November 28, 2017. The African Union Commission (AUC) officially awards grants to thirteen successful consortia of institutions that will serve as Regional Implementing Centres for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES and Africa) Support Programme.

The 3rd EARSeL SIG LU/LC and NASA LCLUC joint Workshop will be at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece, 11th -12th July, 2018.

The French company PlanetObserver, specialized in geospatial data production, has just finalized the new PlanetSAT Updates imagery basemap of the United States and Mexico. Processed with fresh and cloudless Landsat 8 source data, this new basemap covers more than 10 million square kilometers at 15-meter resolution. With an advanced natural color imagery processing, this high quality mapping product provides up-to-date and detailed geographic information, perfect for 1:50,000 scale mapping.

21 November 2017. EARSC publish today its position paper on Earth Observation Services Industry Internationalisation & Economic Diplomacy.

15 November 2017. ESA has chosen two concepts, FORUM and SKIM, to be developed further and compete to be the ninth Earth Explorer mission.

Nov 14th, 2017 by Dallas Kasaboski, NSR.
Satellite imagery has traditionally been sold by the scene. Customers would look at certain criteria, and satellite operators would match their request with available archived or tasked images. Sales cycles were long, and the focus was on the quality and the resolution of the data.

November 2017 – EarthServer, the European Union Big Data initiative, has reached the next milestone: in the second phase extending through April 2018, the Italian data provider MEEO S.R.L. exceeds 1 Petabyte of spatio-temporal, analysis ready data processed through its operational Earth Observation Data Service.