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  PDF News September-October

  Download the PDF of September-October Newsletter

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  One Team Leader for Planetek Italia

  Responsibilities will include managing projects and team leading-coordination to deliver projects in the Geospatial Systems Unit. Location: our main office in Bari. The ideal candidate has a degree in engineering or other technical degrees and native Italian language. Ref: pk27 TEAM LEADER.

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  KOPERNIKUS the new name of EU GMES program

  Kopernikus is the new name of the European Commission’s earth observation activities previously known as GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) so far.

  The name Kopernikus was announced by Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, today at a dedicated conference in Lille, organised in cooperation with the French presidency of the EU.

  The objective of Kopernikus is to monitor the state of the environment on land, at sea and in the atmosphere and to improve the security of the citizens in a world facing an increased risk of natural and other disasters.

  To know more, visit the official website or Planetek Italia, who was involved in Forest, Land and Waters services definition and production:

  http://www.gmes.info

  http://ec.europa.eu/kopernikus/

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  ERDAS TITAN: the Italian Geospatial Community

  The TITAN network has its Italian Geospatial Community.

  Through its webportal, enriched with several tools such as forum, news, a geodata section and tutorial, Italian business professionals and surfers can rapidly learn, download and use ERDAS TITAN, connecting to the Italian GeoHUB. The application is designed for those organizations and working groups who need to share geospatial or location-based contents in a single secure environment and want to benefit from real-time interaction. For Italian users, details and download are available at:

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  GEOEYE-1: launched for the highest resolution

  GeoEye-1, the world`s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, has been launched last September 6, 2008. GeoEye-1 is capable of collecting up to 700,000 square km in a single day, with a ground resolution of 0.41-meters in the panchromatic mode and of 1.65-m resolution multispectral.

  GeoEye-1 will now undergo a calibration and check-out period before imagery products will be available for sale.

  Watch the first image collected on October 7th at:

  http://www.planetek.it/eng/gallery.asp?catid=9 

  To know more visit the official web page:

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