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5/03/2010

e-GEOS provides satellite images and maps to assess the damage suffered by the city of Concepcion in Chile, following the earthquake of 27 February

e-GEOS, a joint venture between Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency, has produced an assessment of the damage suffered by the city of Concepcion, Chile, as a result of the earthquake of 27 February 2010, which it has provided to the UN's Department of Field Support and the Italian foreign affairs ministry.

Details and links to maps and imagery, and press release >>

22/01/2010

e-GEOS provides aid agencies with satellite maps of Léogâne and Jacmel, two cities hit by the earthquake in Haiti

e-GEOS (a Telespazio/Italian Space Agency company), in collaboration with the European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC), is providing satellite maps of road conditions in the Haitian areas of and Jacmel and Léogâne. These areas have been awaiting aid operations for some time due to poor road conditions and inefficient co-ordination of relief following the disaster. >>

18/01/2010

e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI provides satellite images and maps of earthquake-hit areas in Haiti under the European G-MOSAIC programme

Within a few hours of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, e-GEOS (a Telespazio/Italian Space Agency company) went into action to provide the United Nations, the Spanish Red Cross and the Italian ministries of Foreign Affairs (crisis units) and Defence a series of georeferenced satellite maps of the affected areas to assist the relief and humanitarian aid operations. >>

15/01/2010
The first radar satellite image of Haiti acquired by COSMO-SkyMed

COSMO-SkyMed, the Italian radar satellite constellation, acquired a high-resolution Spot image on 14 January 2010 of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Further acquisitions to obtain elements that will help assess the effects of the earthquake on the affected area have already been planned. >>

Haiti, new COSMO-SkyMed image prepared by e-GEOS. Interferometric Land Use maps of the earthquake zone. In Interferometric Land Use (ILU) maps, the elements in red show areas with a large difference in the effects of backscattering between the acquisitions before and after the event, which therefore could have been damaged by the earthquake. >>

14/01/2010
GeoEye-1 imagery of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 January 2010

e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) and Lockheed Martin to supply satellite data to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (US)

The team consisting of the US firm Lockheed Martin and the Italian company e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) has been awarded a contract worth up to USD 85 million by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide data, products and services from the COSMO-SkyMed satellites.  >>

Telespazio, with the collaboration of e-GEOS, presents the “Love Planet Earth 2010” calendar dedicated to Deserts.

Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, with the collaboration of e-GEOS, a Telespazio/ASI company, presents the 2010 edition of its “Love Planet Earth" calendar, which is now into its fourth year and this year is dedicated to Deserts.

Covering a third of the Earth's land surface, deserts are the true sentries of climate change, representing the clearest sign of the aridity that characterises increasingly large areas of our planet. At the same time, they are often also a resource to be conserved and a source of wealth to be developed.

Learn more, and download a pdf of the calendar >>

19/11/2009

e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) wins ESA contract to supply high resolution optical and radar satellite data for the GMES programme

e-GEOS, the company jointly owned by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%), has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply optical and radar satellite data for the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) programme.  >>

01/07/2009

Capital increase for e-GEOS: company created by ASI and Telespazio (a Finmeccanica/Thales company) fully operational from today

e-GEOS, the company created by the Italian Space Agency and Telespazio is fully operational from today. The shareholders’ meeting of the company approved the capital increase of e-GEOS via the transfer of the earth observation division from Telespazio and the rights to the commercial distribution of COSMO-SkyMed data from ASI.  >>

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