Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama - According to Euroconsult's latest report, Earth Observation: Defense & Security, the number of countries expected to launch proprietary Earth observation (EO) defense capacity is expected to remain limited, despite...
NASA Gets Down to Earth This Year With Globe-Spanning Expeditions
NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 – from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific – to delve into challenging questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it. While Earth...
Preparing for More Radar Vision
The Sentinel-1B satellite has arrived in French Guiana to be prepared for liftoff on 22 April. It will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to provide more radar views of Earth for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. The satellites each...
DLR is Expanding Cooperation with Japan and South Korea
A DLR delegation led by Pascale Ehrenfreund visited South Korea and Japan from 21 to 27 February. The delegation cultivated and expanded the close cooperation with partner organisations. Two important partnership agreements were signed during the visits. DLR ground...
DigitalGlobe Sees Booming Commercial Opportunity Using APIs
RESTON, Va.— Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today announced that DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, selected Software AG’s Digital Business Platform to underpin their...
AZO Brings “Big Data from Space” to this Year Mobile World Congress 2016
Five startup companies will present their game changing Earth observation services delivered by the European Copernicus programme on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform at the SAP booth at Mobile Word Congress (MWC 2016). Earth observation data provides crucial economic and...
South West Water Looks to Rezatec to Provide Satellite-Derived Data Analytics to Understand Location, Structure and Function of Peatland on Bodmin Moor
Harwell, Oxfordshire, 9th February 2016 – Rezatec has been using cutting edge Earth Observation techniques to assist South West Water on a project to map and understand the condition of its peatlands. South West Water is working with partners in its Upstream...
Creating a European Marketplace for Earth Observation Services
We are pleased to announce the release of the EARSC position paper around the development of a European Marketplace for EO services as a leverage for the exploitation of Copernicus data and services alongside commercial offerings. A European Marketplace for EO...
DigitalGlobe Receives Early Commitments for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity
WESTMINSTER, Colo.— DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, today announced its third customer commitment for direct access capacity on the WorldView-4 satellite,...
ESSC Statement on Climate Change
The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) supports the Article (2) agreement on climate change of the Declaration of the '2015 Budapest World Science Forum on the enabling power of science' urges such a universal agreement aiming at stabilising atmospheric...