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.

New radar satellite technique to study ocean current dynamics

Infoterra to attend NELP VII road shows

A Major year for European Space and GMES

The European Space Agency expects to achieve significant progress with its most important programmes in 2008, says director general Jean-Jacques Dordain, beginning with a key milestone for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. GMES is a European Union-led initiative to combine ground- and space-based observation for monitoring for the environment and security

A record 17 satellites are to be launched in 2008 in the largest-ever concerted global effort to monitor the impact of climate change over the next few decades, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is leading the initiative.

Infoterra Ltd, a leader in the provision of geospatial products and services, has supplied the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) with core geospatial information, including climate change, carbon emission and waste recycling data, that features in Google’s innovative UK Carbon Footprint Project.

Mr. Ed Parsons, Google Earth Europe

The satellites will be placed in the so-called low earth orbit or around 700km above the earth’s surface by the Indian Space Research Organisation

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The aim of this initiative is to promote the development of Integrated Applications using a combination of space capabilities and delivering new services to citizens.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) is to sell its space business – manufacturer of Canada’s Earth-observation Radarsat and Canadarm robotic arm, to US firm Alliant Techsystems (ATK). Minneapolis-based ATK has agreed to buy Vancouver-based MDA’s information systems and geospatial services businesses, including the satellite and robotics activities, for $1.33 billion in cash. The acquisition, with

Natural and manmade catastrophes in Europe, America, Asia and Africa, coupled with increased security needs, have further reinforced the need for earth observation systems. The GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) ensures that crisis situations like floods, forest fires or earthquakes can be better anticipated and managed through monitoring the state of our environment. To supply space data in a seamless, integrated, timely and secure way to the GMES users the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a 48 million € grant for a coordinated provision of space-based observation data for GMES for its pre-operational phase 2008-2010. This new coherent and cost-efficient approach prefigures an operational service that will offer a comprehensive and sustained supply of space-based earth observation data.