The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has announced it has begun several months of tests into the feasibility of obtaining traffic information via its new radar satellite TerraSAR-X.

It was bound to happen—Euroconsult, the international research and analyst firm specializing in the satellite sector, announced that the satellite-based Earth observation sector is entering a new expansion phase.

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(WAPA) – Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, will take part in “SATExpo Europe 2008”, the international exhibition of space and advanced telecommunications to be held at the New Rome Trade Center from 27 to 29 March.

A new global portrait taken from space details Earth’s land cover with a resolution never before obtained.

Test the most advanced object-based image analysis software available to GIS Professionals: Definiens Developer

Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR’s) Satellite Applications Centre is canvassing industry about the country’s future satellite data requirements.

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.