December
10 news
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EU Opportunities for ResearchersWe would like to point out two information dedicated to researchers described by APRE Agency during the IEEE-Gold Remote Sensing Conference 2006, held in Bari, and organized by CNR-ISSIA. All the researchers, involved in Remote Sensing and also in other fields, can both download the European Charter for Researchers and watch fellowship and financing opportunities for researchers supported by European Union.
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TIGER: tools and skills for AfricaSpace-based systems can play an important role in achieving a sustainable economic, social and environmental development. ESA`s TIGER Initiative, is trying to apply the statement of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. TIGER aims at generating sustainable Earth Observation services for integrated water resources management in developing nations. Planetek Italia and ER Mapper partecipated to the workshop organized with African Water Authorities providing a training course on Remote Sensing with the ER Mapper software.
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The new Image Web Server 8.0Image Web Server is the innovative tool for the distribution via Internet of orthophotos, satellite images and raster data. Discover all the features of the version. Image Web Server 8.0 is plug-in-less: it enables publishing ECW images on your webGIS portal and users will not need to install any plug-in! An example of plug-in-less website is the Géoportail
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Géoportail: the french style Google earthThe GéoPortail of Institut Géographique National is a web portal for accessing public data owned by French institutions IGN and BRGM. Geoportail is one of the first webGIS realized with the new ER Mapper`s Image Web Server 8.0 which enables to create a real plug-in free webGIS portal. With Géoportail users can navigate aerial photos and IGN cartography. For 2007 is announced also the 3D navigation.
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Near real time Envisat imagesThe European Space Agency (ESA) has created a website called MIRAVI which gives access to recent images collected by Envisat, the biggest Earth Observation satellite. What can you `see` with Envisat? The medium resolution of MERIS sensor allows to monitor natural events such as for forest fires, floods or volcano eruptions.