Bringing space down to earth

The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate, but it must be easily accessible in order to apply it to the global needs relating to the state of the Earth.

Astrium Services is looking to up its stakes in geospatial information provider SpotImage and milsatcom operator Hisdesat as part of a plan to meld its space-based milsatcom, remote sensing and navigation capabilities into a family of integrated satellite services.

Better disaster response – at home and abroad

The most recent OECD’s Environmental Outlook to 2030 says that global efforts to tackle the main environmental challenges – climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and risks to human health – are achievable and affordable. At least, the global efforts to be done are more affordable than the global cost of inaction.

Britain is taking a leading role in the standardisation of public information in Europe after local government-backed national property and street ID coding systems were chosen from many submitted from across Europe.

Assistance for developing countries to manage water resources, combat drought, and measure climate change will be forthcoming under a new agreement signed today by the World Bank and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department.

ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and European Commission Director General for Enterprise and Industry Heinz Zourek today signed in Brussels an agreement which establishes the allocation of an EC budget of 624 million euros to ESA as a contribution to the implementation of the GMES Space Component (GSC)

ew satellites will soon reinforce the performance of the GMES earth observation system (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), further to an agreement signed in Brussels today by the European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain and Heinz Zourek, Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry Policy.

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that Flevoland Province of the Netherlands will implement Leica Image Manager.

To help address climate change, 2008 will see the launch of Europe’s SMOS satellite. SMOS, which stands for soil moisture and ocean salinity, is designed to map these elements with unprecedented accuracy. Three-quarters of the globe is covered in water and its influence is felt everywhere. It’s not only oceans, rivers and lakes that affect

Astrium, ICC and Hisdesat join forces to strengthen Earth observation service provision

Astrium has announced that the consortium it is heading, which also includes Infoterra France and IGN France International, has successfully completed a new crisis management system at the National Disaster Management Centre in Jakarta and at three regional centres based in Jakarta, Padang and Banda Aceh.

Improving access to ESA Earth Observation Data and Products

JAKARTA: National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN) is holding a seminar in Bogor on Thursday to evaluate the one-year mission of the LAPAN–TUBSAT satellite and prepare for the construction of its next generation. The LAPAN–TUBSAT satellite was launched on Jan. 10, 2007, at the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota, India, as an auxiliary

Hi-tech efforts to better understand global warming have been strengthened after the world’s space and meteorological agencies gave their support to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) strategy for the enhanced use of satellites to monitor climate change and weather.