Richmond Hill, Ontario – December 8, 2008: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of software and solutions for geospatial imaging applications announced today the acquisition of TGIS Technologies Inc., a company specializing in geospatial collaboration software. TGIS Technologies Inc., based in Chelsea, Quebec, is the developer of GeoConference® Software – a unique enterprise solution that allows

The Final Report on the Initial Period of the GMES Action Plan, which was presented on 26 November 2003, has recognised the European Civil Protection (ECP) as one of the GMES service categories and stressed the need to develop enabling e-infrastructures and virtual organisation services for specific GMES applications. Indeed, the EU EGEE (Enabling Grids

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań, 1-12 December 2008, more than 200 countries are about to commit to new levels of carbon dioxide reductions and emission targets, but how do we really know that they will abide by what they pledge. Maybe one of ESA’s (European Space Agency) next generation earth observation

Richmond Hill, Ontario – PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of software and solutions for geospatial imaging applications announced today the acquisition of Geospace Inc., a provider of geospatial information and solutions. Geospace Inc., based in Albuquerque, NM, is the developer of FeatureObjeX™, a user friendly stand alone software package combining interactive editing tools for

December 4, 2008. SEMANA/Telecommunications. In the coming days, the Colombian government will make a very important decision for the country: how and when to launch the first national satellite. There are multiple options on the table – and contradictory positions For more than 20 years, one of the dreams of Colombian governments and presidents alike

Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, President of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on 2 December signed a cooperation agreement through which JAXA will assist UNESCO by bringing the benefits of space technology to the monitoring of World Heritage sites. With this agreement JAXA joins a group of more than 50

In view of the exceptional value it has added towards development of geospatial science, The Institute of Photogrammetry (IPI), University of Hannover will be felicitated by GIS Development with the award for ‘Building Geospatial Capacities and Knowledge Network’ during the inaugural ceremony of Map World Forum on February 10, 2009 at Hyderabad, India. Prof. Christian

The Arctic is undergoing rapid transformation due to climate change, pollution and human activity. ESA’s ERS and Envisat satellites have been providing satellite data of the region for the last 17 years. These long term data sets in combination with ESA’s future missions will be key in implementing the newly adopted European Commission policy called

Universal availability of cost-free satellite data and images will revolutionize the use of Earth observations for decision-making. In a breakthrough announced in Bucharest by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), scientists and decision-makers around the world will soon have unrestricted access at no charge to the Landsat archive, the world’s most extensive collection of continuously-acquired

ESA PR 47-2008. The Ministers in charge of space activities in the European Space Agency’s 18 Member States and Canada today concluded a successful two-day Council meeting in The Hague, agreeing to undertake new initiatives in several fields and endorsing the next phases of a set of ongoing programmes. Today’s decisions are a further step

For 10 years, the VEGETATION mission has played an important role in meeting the need for information on the state of our planet offering the international community high quality data from a truly global Earth Observing System, which uniquely acquires data of the entire terrestrial surface on a daily basis. Today, the VEGETATION instruments are

The European Space Agency announced today that it will build a facility in the UK. Science minister, Lord Drayson, negotiated the deal at the space agency’s ministerial meeting at The Hague. Diamond synchrotron The centre will be part of a €10 billion overall package for ESA agreed by the 18 member states. The facility will

Europe’s space policies have to major on activities that bring the most benefit to its citizens, says French research minister Valerie Pecresse. She is holding two days of talks with counterparts from European Space Agency (Esa) member states to set the organisation’s budget to 2011. A range of projects, such as new Earth-observing satellites, are

Ministers of the European Space Agency’s member nations are meeting this week to grapple with a number of issues associated with the agency, including funding levels and plans for future programs. An ESA press release last week outlines those issues, ranging from Earth observation programs to proposals to develop a new upper stage for the

The NASA’s Earth Observer-1 (EO-1) has reached its eighth anniversary on orbit. The EO-1 satellite, launched on November 21, 2000 had an initial design and mission life of one year, but has continued successful operations for more than 7 years past the initial mission. ATK served as the Prime Contractor, Mission Integrator and Bus Developer

The European Global Earth Observation and Monitoring project aims to construct an integrated, pan-European atmospheric monitoring program from existing systems to study air quality and climate change. Global climate and air-pollution monitoring requires continuous observations from space. However, calibration of remote-sensing measurements from space instruments is difficult for many reasons, including failures during launch or