The “Copernicus for coastal zone monitoring and management workshop” will take place in Brussels on 29 June in the Breydel Auditorium, DG GROW from 09:00 to 17:30.

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The 6th Space App Camp is coming closer: The European Space Agency (ESA) will again invite 20 developers to their ESA ESRIN location in Frascati – including travel expenses and accommodation.

Brussels, 9 June 2017. The ‘Copernicus Goes Local – Implementing the Space Strategy for Europe’ event gathered more than 300 Earth Observation actors and industry representatives from across Europe at the European Parliament in Brussels. EARSC Secretariat and several members attended this launch ceremony.

EARSC has recently developed its Internationalisation Strategy and one of its objectives is to support our members by opening up new market opportunities. In other words, EARSC would like to help developing the market for the commercial products and services. This includes new commercial market sectors and new export possibilities linked to national needs in countries outside Europe.

© Copernicus website. The European Commission (EC) has launched an initiative to develop Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) that facilitate access to Copernicus data and information from the Copernicus services. By providing data and information access alongside processing resources, tools and other relevant data, this initiative is expected to boost user uptake, stimulate innovation and the creation of new business models based on Earth Observation data and information.

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) will hold an information day for European industry on the procurement process for a key data access element of the EU’s Copernicus environment monitoring programme, at its Darmstadt headquarters on 1 June.

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and Airbus Defence and Space have launched an open innovation challenge seeking home-grown and novel uses for earth observation data obtained by satellites.

Meet Sinergise at the Brussels Amazon Academy on May 16, 2017, while presenting the Sentinel Hub, a Copernicus Masters award winning and path-breaking solution for seamless integration of open EO data in any web, desktop or mobile GIS application.

November 8-9, 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) is one of the components of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. Since 2013 it has been providing bio-geophysical variables on the status and evolution of land surface in near real time. In the late 2016, the CGLS entered an exciting second operational phase with even more to offer to its existing and potential users.

The Earth Observation (EO) Directorate of the South African National Space Agency (Sansa) has developed an advanced crop-monitoring system for South Africa that will also be made available to other African countries, in due course. “We are able to monitor their [the crops’] condition through time,” Sansa EO acting MD Dr Paida Mangara told the thirty-seventh International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE) in Pretoria.

The new competition round of the Copernicus Masters finally started! New partners, an impressing and unparalleled prize pool worth more than EUR 1.5 million and the second edition of the Copernicus Accelerator promise to make this year’s edition once again truly outstanding.

Marc Tondriaux, President of the EUGENIUS association, shares with our readers the vitality of the emerging Copernicus eco-system.