EARSC News
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OECD: World must act on climate change
- March 4, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
No CommentsThe 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.
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UK Local Government Data Provides Model for European Standards
- March 4, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
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.
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Developing Countries Get Help to Cope with Climate Change
- February 28, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
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.
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Space Sentinels: New Tools In Space To Improve European Environment And Security Policies
- February 28, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
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)
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Security and the environment: new satellites to spur earth observation
- February 28, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
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.
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Leica Image Manager Selected by the Netherlands Province
- February 21, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that Flevoland Province of the Netherlands will implement Leica Image Manager.
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SMOS: Helping Europe respond to climate change
- February 21, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
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Infoterra Group expands into Spain
- February 18, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
Astrium, ICC and Hisdesat join forces to strengthen Earth observation service provision
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Astrium-led consortium implements a new national disaster management system for Indonesia
- February 12, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
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.
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EO User Service Next Generation Project (EO USNG)
- February 7, 2008
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
Improving access to ESA Earth Observation Data and Products