British Association of Remote Sensing Companies

Spatial Energy, the leading source of digital imagery, content hosting and information solutions for the energy industry, today announced the inaugural Remote Sensing Energy Challenge. With $10,000 in total awards for winners in two categories – commercial and student – the competition seeks to identify new remote sensing technologies with the potential to assist oil [...]

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The International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) warmly welcomes the recent announcement by David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Science and Universities, that the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has chosen Satellite Applications as the next Catapult Centre, to be launched in Autumn 2012. The Satellite Applications Catapult Centre has been selected in recognition of the [...]

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SPACE.eu CONFERENCE 28/29 February 2012 Diamant Centre Brussels Europe’s engagement with space is evolving rapidly, and the coming years and months will see a number of crucial steps. SPACE.eu builds on the hands-on experience of the network of space national contact points (ncp’s), so it will be designed to meet practitioners’ real needs. SPACE.eu aims [...]

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The UK Space Agency is seeking support to help deliver UK goals in securing downstream benefits from Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). Work to establish a UK position on GMES is needed in the first part of 2012. Candidates are needed who would be available until July 2012. There is scope to extend [...]

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The European Space Agency has advertised a vacancy within the Directorate of Telecommunications & Integrated Applications which will be based at ESTEC in the Netherlands or Harwell in the UK. The postholder will report to the Head of the Awareness Activities Section and will be responsible for the management and implementation of Awareness Activities in [...]

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BARSC Executive Committee member Anne Kemp has won the the Best Paper Award at the recent agi Conference. Anne’s paper – entitled BIM isn’t Geospatial – or is it? – sort to tackle the mis-conceptions around Building Information Modeling (BIM) and explore how the geo-community can help realise the full potential of this discipline. Having [...]

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The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies that is designed to develop a close working relationship between the two organisations. The NCEO mission is to unlock the full potential of Earth Observation (EO) to monitor, diagnose and predict climate and environmental [...]

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For the last two years and under the stewardship of outgoing Chairman Dave Hodgson, the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies has made great strides in improving its level of communication with member companies and growing its lobbying power. Following the recent AGM, the responsibility of overseeing the association’s continued expansion and influence passes to [...]

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ESA has undertaken a review of the EOEP-3 programme, as part of preparations towards the formulation of the EOEP-4 programme proposal. The EOEP-3 review has focussed on the science, technology and programmatic aspects of the programme and I attach the findings of this review which ESA will present to PBEO Delegations on 15th and 16th [...]

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The BARSC AGM will be held on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at Finmeccanica, 8th Floor, 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU, and will start at 16:00. All BARSC members are invited to attend and should you wish to join or send apologies for absence please email Secretary Gareth Davies (secretary@barsc.org.uk). Nominations for the following posts [...]

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