EARSC News
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Bird's Eye View of a Refugee's World
- April 24, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
No CommentsGoogle 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.
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General Dynamics Selected By NASA To Build The Spacecraft For The Landsat Data Continuity Mission
- April 22, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
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).
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Planetek Italia Announces New Series of ERDAS Workshops
- April 21, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
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.
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New Atlases Use NASA Data To Chart Ocean Winds
- April 17, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
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.
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GMES Sentinel-2 satellite contract signed
- April 17, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
ESA PR 24-2008. The European Space Agency and Astrium today signed a €195 million contract to provide the first Sentinel-2 earth observation satellite, devoted to monitoring the land environment, as part of the European GMES programme. As prime contractor, Astrium is responsible for the design, development and integration of the satellite, which will perform a high-end multi-spectral optical imaging mission.
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Eurostars research funding for SMEs
- April 17, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
Eurostars is a EUR 400-million Europe-wide programme set up to fund SME-driven research and development (R&D) activities in 24 of the EU’s Member States, plus Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. The programme is open to consortia of research-oriented enterprises from these 29 countries. Eurostars is open for continuous funding applications, with an average of two submission deadlines each year. The next deadline for submissions is 21 November 2008.
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Safe guarding Earth's data
- April 16, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate but, say the European Space Agency, it must be easily accessible in order to apply it to the global needs relating to the state of the Earth.
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Interview Spring 2008
- April 15, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
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Thales Alenia Space Wins Euro 305 M Sentinel-3 Contract
- April 14, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a 305 million Euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply the Sentinel-3 Earth observation satellite for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program.
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Contract Signed For ESA's Sentinel-3 Earth Observation Satellite
- April 14, 2008
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- Category: EARSC News
The European Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space today signed a €305 million contract to provide the first Sentinel-3 earth observation satellite, devoted to oceanography and land-vegetation monitoring, as part of the European GMES programme.