The webstreaming of the GMES Forum 2008 that took place in Lille on 16-17 September 2008 is now available online on the Europa website It is now possible to watch and listen to all the sessions of the Forum in its five languages (FR, DE, EN, IT, ES) and to watch/download the presentations and CVs

[Date: 2008-09-29]. On 26 September, the Competitiveness Council adopted a resolution to advance Europe’s Space Policy. The resolution sets out four priority areas: space and climate change; space and security; space exploration; and the contribution of space to the Lisbon Strategy. The Member States highlighted in particular the importance of the rapid and successful implementation

The 2008 call for proposals for projects funded under the new LIFE+ programme has been published by the European Commission. The 2008 call for proposals has been published by the European Commission on 15 July 2008. For this second LIFE+ call for proposals, the deadline for the submission of proposals to the Member States is

Published: Friday 26 September 2008 In a resolution adopted on 26 September, European ministers responsible for space underlined the strategic importance of guaranteeing the continent’s political and technological independence on space and unveiled their ambition to make Europe one of the world’s leading space powers. The joint resolution, adopted by EU competitiveness ministers and representatives

Press Releases and interesting links from DG-ENT Website Preparation of the Competitiveness Council of Ministers, Brussels, 25/26 September 2008 Kopernikus: Observing our planet for a safer world What is Kopernikus? Speech G. Verheugen Lille Forum Think Small First: A Small Business Act for Europe Enterprise Europe Network:Business Support at Your Doorstep European portal for SMEs

deploys latest lidar technology to collect central London height data at industry’s highest resolution – 12 points per metre

Dubai, September 23: The UAE’s first remote-sensing earth observation satellite, DubaiSat 1, is ready for launch later this year, the country’s top science institute announced in Dubai on Tuesday. The satellite will provide the UAE with its first dedicated “eye in the sky” and will be launched onboard by a Russian rocket through the Moscow-based

(Sep 22). Remote sensing and aerial survey specialist Bluesky has been awarded another project by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to create a digital archive of scientific images from the organisation’s Airborne Research and Survey Facility. Bluesky will scan the new photographic images taken by NERC’s airborne survey unit, using state of the art

What is Kopernikus? The Kopernikus initiative has two main objectives: the provision of sustainable, precise and reliable information concerning the environment and citizen’s security, produced under EU control and tailored to the needs of a wide range of users; the creation of massive opportunities for European companies, in particular small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which

PlanetObserver, one of the leading suppliers of satellite imagery data, announces the creation of a new seamless global digital Earth imagery database in natural true colours with a resolution of 15m/pixel. Here are a few figures about this new Earth observation tool : 8,600 scenes collected from the civil observation satellite Landsat 7 ETM+, a

EU Research for the Environment 2007-2013 This brochure summaries environmental research funded by the European Union and is divided in two parts. The first provides the context of environmental research – the historical roots and the political framework as well as an introduction to environmental research in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), under the theme

The seventh issue of the GMES Land User Newsletter has been edited by the ETC/LUSI in order to provide the user of land related information with news from and about GMES and to support communication among the stakeholders. The European Space Agency and the European Commission are sponsoring this newsletter. Download here the GMES Land

Stakeholders can better understand each other and make environmental and security-related information available to the people who need it through enhanced or new services.

Views from space have led to countless advances on the ground in both scientific knowledge and daily life The former Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, heralded the era of satellite remote sensing. Since that epic moment on October 4,1957, hundreds of Earth-observing satellites have followed. Half a century of

Remote sensing solution provider DMCii’s Chief Scientist, Dr Steve Mackin, has pioneered a new approach for deriving quality control indicators from Disaster Monitoring Constellation data. The new framework, which is being implemented by DMCii, holds great potential for quality control and consistency in multi-source imaging projects such as the European Global Monitoring for Environment and

The new name of the European GMES Programme (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) has been unveiled: Kopernikus. The European Commission Vice President Günter Verheugen announced the name today at the GMES 2008 Lille forum. Europe is presenting Kopernikus at the forum as the second flagship of the European Space Policy following Galileo, the first