Creating & Growing a New Business in Europe How to overcome the growing pains Thursday 26th of January 2023 16:00-17:00 CET Creating a business and making it grow over the years is a challenging, time-consuming, long-lasting process which requires a lot of skill and determination. It can sometimes seem like a lonely road full of

On Friday, 16th of December 2022, the long-awaited new Copernicus Data Access Service kicked off, taking the European Union Copernicus program to the next level and ensuring the data make the greatest possible impact on institutional users, the research community, the commercial sector as well every citizen of our planet. “Copernicus must strive for digital

Athens (EuroGEO 2022), 8 December 2022 The FIRE Team can proudly announce the extension of the project until February 2023 and the organisation of the FIRE Forum 2023 from 1st to 3rd February 2023. FIRE Forum 2023 will bring together all stakeholders to discover the main project result – the roadmap for Research and Innovation agenda for

Windhoek, Namibia, 5.Dec. 2022: At the state-visit of German Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Economy and Climate, Dr. Robert Habeck, PlanetGeoScan Namibia Pty LLC, Namibia, and GeoScan GmbH, Germany, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for finding, mining and processing lithium and other critical battery minerals in Namibia (Picture). Meetings earlier today involved President Dr. Hage G.

Two new breakthroughs by the German expert for space-based information on water environments have recently received three awards: RastLess, a new cloud computing solution for fast and cost-saving geospatial data analytics and SDB-Online, the WebApp for mapping shallow waters. ­ ­­­For the growing Earth observation market, efficient processing of large raster data volumes in various resolutions

Earth Observation & EU Carbon Removals Policies Thursday, 8th of December 2022 In response to the urgency for climate action highlighted in the successive assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), the European Union has set into law its objective of economy-wide Climate Neutrality by 2050. The European Climate Law requires that greenhouse

Earth Observation in International Partnerships Get acquainted with DG INTPA Thursday, 24th November 2022 With the Green Deal, the European Union has proposed an ambitious strategy and accompanying regulatory framework to guide society and the economy towards a green transition. Similarly ambitious, Europe’s digital agenda has focused on enhancing the market environment for digital players, protecting consumers

ESA & the EO downstream Sector: Working Together Thursday, 10th November 2022 The next ESA Ministerial meeting on the  22 and 23 November 2022, will set the main Earth Observation (EO) programmes in Europe for the next 3 years. Together with the EU Copernicus programme, ESA’s Future-EO package will provide key support for the EO

Thursday 27th October 2022 16:00-17:00 CEST Outreach is a key part of a portfolio of marketing tools. Outreach is defined (in Wikipedia) as “the activity of providing services to any population that might not otherwise have access to those services”. In the space sector, outreach is considered more as a promotional activity linked to raising

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Accessing development finance for the EO downstream sector Thursday 13th October 2022 16:00-17:00 CEST Both within and beyond the ESA Global Development Assistance (GDA) programme, organisations from the European Earth Observation (EO) Service Sector are engaging with, and providing EO products and services to International Financial Institutions (IFIs), such as World Bank (WB) and Asian

EUMETSAT & EO Industry  Creating Opportunities together?  Thursday 29th September 2022, 16:00-17:00 CEST  EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and  the environment from space. It is an intergovernmental organisation based in Darmstadt,  Germany, currently with 30 Member States. It operates a system of meteorological satellites  that observe the atmosphere and

Earth Observation: A Market ready to take off? The time is now!  Thursday 15th September 2022 16:00-17:00 CEST  Since the days of Landsat and SPOT in the 1980’s and many times since, people have heralded the  market for EO data. But, despite different data policies, commercial approaches and the  relationship with governments, the anticipated take-off has

EARSC Communication and Membership Officer Job Description Full time position, 40 hours per week About EARSC: EARSC – the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies – is a non-profit trade association representing the Earth Observation services industry in Europe with 135+ SMEs, large and small companies. Composed of 11 people, the EARSC Secretariat is based

In preparation for the 12th Session of the UN-GGIM, the present paper presents the EARSC written submissions supporting the European private service providers’ views on several topics of the UN-GGIM agenda. AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda item #3. Strengthening global geospatial information management arrangements EARSC supports the UNGGIM initiatives to sensitise relevant UN bodies but also Member