One of the priority tasks of Ukraine’s state policy in the sphere of space activity is to form groups of remote Earth-sensing satellites consisting of 11 spacecraft in orbit by 2030, according to a plan for state policy in the sphere of space activity until 2030, which has been introduced for public discussion by the …

The ESA is to launch a satellite to investigate the Earth’s ice fields and map ice thickness over water and land. ESA’s ice mission satellite CryoSat will be placed into orbit 700 km above Earth by a Russian Dnepr rocket. CryoSat will be the third of ESA’s Earth Explorer satellites in orbit, following on from …

Spatial Energy has added 19 oil and gas producing basins to its BasinWatch imagery service. To provide this solution, Spatial Energy continually acquires new sub-meter satellite imagery of the world’s most active geologic basins and delivers them in comprehensive and up-to-date image data sets to support the hydrocarbon exploration and production activities of clientele worldwide. …

Avenza Systems announced the release of Geographic Imager® 3.0, the latest in software that adds geospatial functionality to Adobe Photoshop. Geographic Imager enhances the Adobe Photoshop imaging environment by adding all the tools and technology necessary to support geospatial images such as aerial and satellite imagery.  In addition to allowing the use of Adobe Photoshop and …

ERDAS announced support for WorldView-2 satellite products. Using ERDAS IMAGINE and LPS 2010, GEOINT and military analysts, state and local governments, civil organizations, first responders, and non-governmental organizations can now transform WorldView-2 imagery into timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence. By exploiting WorldView-2 imagery in ERDAS products, users minimize their pre-processing requirements and utilize production …

An intelligence satellite equipped with sensors to pick up conversations and detect espionage activities is being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), according to a top defence scientist. The satellite, fitted with electronic sensors, will be more powerful than ISRO’s remote sensing satellites, a Defence …

The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF), Government of India, has approved National Forestry Information Network and IT for fire monitoring under an action plan to enhance forestry science. The National Forestry Information Network would be established using remote sensing, GIS and MIS. All land based forestry interventions will be geo-mapped and monitored on a …

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said the flight- testing of the indigenous cryogenic stage of the Geo Stationary Launch Vehicle (GSLV) D3 would be conducted in April. The vehicle would carry GAST-4, a communication satellite. “Though we had several GSLV flights, we were using the Russian cryogenic stages,” he said. As far …

Pictometry International Corp. announced that it has captured more than 45,000 high resolution aerial oblique images of earthquake damage in Haiti and has donated access to the imagery via Pictometry Online™ to URISA’s GISCorps volunteers. Pictometry captured the Haiti images after the January earthquake and within days the imagery was processed in Rochester and deployed …

RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems announced serial production and availability of the VMX-250 Mobile Scanning System. The VMX-250 System consists of two RIEGL VQ-250 ‘Full Circle’-Laser Scanners, which combined can achieve 600,000 measurements per second, enabling an extremely fast, efficient and highly accurate 3D mapping of highways, streets, railroads, and the like. The system configuration further …