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An Interview with the new Exelis VIS President
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ITT Corporation has spun off its three business units into three standalone, publicly traded companies. ITT Defense & Information Solutions became Exelis, Inc. when this change officially took place on October 31 of this past year. As a part of the change, ITT Visual Information Solutions became Exelis Visual Information Solutions (VIS). With this new [...]
SSTL-OHB System consortium to build a further eight Galileo FOC satellites
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European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani today announced in London that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites for the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation programme under the supervision of the European Space Agency. The new contract will see SSTL continuing its role [...]
Environment Systems Preferred Supplier for Coastal Monitoring Frameworks
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Environment Systems has become a preferred supplier of Ecological Mapping to the South West, South East and North West Coastal Monitoring Frameworks for England. Coastal monitoring provides a sound scientific basis to inform strategic coastal management, including Shoreline Management Plans. Our coast is an important habitat, amenity, and defence against the sea. Managing it requires [...]
Facility for Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space
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On 7 December, the International Space and Innovation Centre (ISIC) received £3 million for the Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space (CEMS) facility. The funding was announced by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, as part of a £4.75 million government grant for electronic infrastructure to support the collection, storage and management of satellite [...]
Environment Systems Sponsors PhD and Masters Courses at Aberystwyth University
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Environment Systems is sponsoring a number of post-graduate courses at Aberystwyth University as part of its ongoing commitment to higher-education. In the 2011/12 academic year Environment systems will be sponsoring four 1 year scholarships and an existing 3 year PhD course. The scholarships are part of the Access to Masters (ATM) and Knowledge Economy Skills [...]
Sharper DMCii satellite images guide farmers worldwide
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In the two years since DMCii added 22m multispectral imagery to its geospatial data portfolio, the detailed satellite views of the Earth’s surface have proved highly-valued tools for farmers facing increasing pressures – not least of which is rising fertiliser costs. Acquired from the latest generation of DMC imaging satellites – UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 – [...]
DMCii signs contract to supply UK-DMC2 satellite imagery to Russia’s ScanEx
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Remote sensing solutions provider DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) has agreed a 3-year agreement with Russia’s ScanEx Research and Development Center to provide rapid 22m data reception from the UK-DMC2 satellite to ScanEx ground stations in Russia and CIS countries. ScanEx will employ a network of four ground stations strategically placed throughout the vast Russia [...]
Environment Systems Wins Contract for Remote Sensing Study of Georgia Rangelands
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Environment Systems has won a contract to carry out a study of the condition of the Georgia Rangelands using satellite imagery and its own established remote sensing expertise. The study is being undertaken under the Alliances Programme run by Mercy Corps and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The programme is focused [...]
SSTL redefines the cost of radar imaging with NovaSAR-S
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Small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has today announced completion of the development phase of its new low-cost Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite system. Called NovaSAR-S, the system offers customers coverage of any spot on Earth in all conditions – seeing through cloud cover across both day and night. The 400-kg NovaSAR-S design [...]
UK Teams Developing New Ways of Monitoring Earth’s Climate from Space
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Teams of scientists and engineers have been awarded contracts worth more than £500,000 to develop new satellite technologies for observing the Earth from space. The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI), with funding from the UK Space Agency, has awarded contracts to 8 industrial and academic teams around the UK. To read the article in [...]