Mount Etna is a stratovolcano located on the Italian island of Sicily. Being Europe’s highest and most active volcano, it is one of the best monitored volcanoes worldwide and has the world’s longest documented records of volcanism starting 1500 BC. Two typical eruptive styles occur at Etna, persistent explosive eruptions, sometimes with minor lava emissions

Following the success of the recent free INSPIRE seminar and metadata workshop, 1Spatial is pleased to announce that the seminar presentations are now freely available to download.

by Adam Keith, Euroconsult. Source SatMagazine

BMT Group Ltd announced its acquisition of ARGOSS, a leading specialist provider of marine environmental information services, using satellite observations, meteorological and oceanographic data.

(Opening date: 30 April – Closing date: 30 May). The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), in cooperation with the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has agreed to launch an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for researching new developments in the application of RADARSAT-1 data and innovative mapping approaches to better understand the dynamics of hurricane genesis, morphology and movement.

SPOT Image Corporation has been providing its Reference3D® Digital Elevation Data (DEM) to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to supplement an important global foundation elevation data set that the Agency has been producing since 2002. The SPOT data is used to supplement data collected during the February 2000 Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) Space Shuttle

High quality imageries acquired from Cartosat-2A and Indian Mini Satellite-1 (IMS-1) were presented to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in Delhi by Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO along with a team of senior scientists. It may be recalled that Cartosat-2A and IMS-1 were successfully launched by PSLV-C9 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota on April 28, 2008.

(6th May 2008) The Earth’s oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, given that the well understanding of the marine biological activity helps to predict how our planet will react to the annually decreasing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

London 12 June 2008. The event is being sponsored by BNSC, and will provide an excellent networking opportunity for industry and the scientific community.

The GeoInformation® Group, publishers of Cities Revealed aerial photography (http://www.citiesrevealed.com), announce today that this year it is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The company was established in April 1998 following a management buy out from Pearson Publishing. Dr Seppe Cassettari and Dr Alun Jones joined forces to become the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director respectively. The company has since grown to a staff of twenty in the Cambridge-based headquarters and a further forty staff in the production centre in South Africa.

(29th April 2008) The European Investment Bank (EIB) and four other public financing institutions have launched a €125 million fund to boost investment in clean energy projects that are to generate carbon credits after 2012.

This is a great time for SMEs to be exploring research opportunities in Europe. By signing up to the new Eurostars Programme, you’ll have a great opportunity to drive leading international collaborations.

Google Earth’s new mapping programme takes you on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world’s major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been selected by NASA to build the spacecraft for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM).

Planetek Italia S.r.l. announces a new series of ERDAS Workshops in Italy, with its first workshop entitled “What’s New in ERDAS Solutions.” This workshop will be held May 6, 2008 at the University of Tor Vergata, in Rome, Italy.

Several new atlases of ocean wind patterns around the globe, based on data from NASA’s QuikScat satellite, are benefiting a wide range of users, from those who sail the seas to those responsible for managing their precious resources.