SRRS Half Million Images

Our Satellite Rapid Response System catalog has reached the incredible amount of 550.000 satellite images!!! After 7 years of uninterruptible service we stored more than half million of images including ESA missions like ASAR and MERIS, NASA instruments like MODIS and VIIRS, EUMETSAT mission AVHRR and CSA SAR images from Radarsat2. If you want have a look, follow this...

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New MetOp and SuomiNPP Processors

We are busy developing our incredible new Sentinel processors for data from S1/CSAR (C-Band SAR Instrument), S2/MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument) and S3/OLCI (Ocean and Land Colour Instrument). In the meantime, we are proud to announce the availability of two new SRRS processors: – MetOp AVHRR/3 (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) – SuomiNPP VIIRS (Visible...

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Envisat Services Interrupted

After 10 years of service, Envisat has stopped sending data to Earth. ESA’s mission control is working to re-establish contact with the satellite. Although this landmark mission has been in orbit twice as long as it was designed for, ESA hopes to keep the satellite in service until the launch of the successor Sentinel missions. The first sign that there was a problem...

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SRRS Elected as the Winner of the Best Service Challenge 2011

As a result of an online vote, the first winner of the GMES Masters competition goes to Chelys for their Satellite Rapid Response System. They were voted Best Service Challenge. The GMES Masters competition called for new ideas and services for the best use of Earth observation data from Europe’s Global Monitoring and Security programme. The competition, which closed on...

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GMES Masters Competition

From 2011 onwards the GMES Masters will reward on an annual basis the best projects and business ideas for a GMES commercial service, with the aim to support the development of GMES related entrepreneurship in Europe. Initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Bavarian Ministry of Economy, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and T-Systems, the GMES Masters 2011 calls...

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ESA signs Miravi upgrade contract

ESA has signed the Miravi upgrade contract. The new version, installed 28 February 2011, now includes support for processing ASAR Level1 products as well as a renewed MERIS Level0 processor, which has improved geolocation accuracy that reaches sub-pixel resolution. The Miravi web interface has also been redesigned, and now offers support for the Google Earth browser...

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