{"id":88062,"date":"2009-11-20T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-awards-gmes-imagery-contract-to-e-geos\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T12:06:30","slug":"esa-awards-gmes-imagery-contract-to-e-geos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-awards-gmes-imagery-contract-to-e-geos\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Awards GMES Imagery Contract to e-Geos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-20-09] <strong>Telespazio<\/strong> and <strong>Italian Space Agency<\/strong> joint venture <strong>e-Geos<\/strong> signed a 3.5 million euro ($5.2 million) contract with the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) to supply optical and radar satellite data for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program, e-Geos announced Nov. 19.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under the contract, e-Geos will provide the ESA with images from three radar satellites of the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed constellation and from the GeoEye-1, Ikonos, QuickBird, WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 optical satellites. The images supplied will mainly be used for various fast-track European services.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GMES is a joint program run by the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> and the ESA to develop European Earth-observation capacity and monitor climate change.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">ESA Selects RapidEye to Provide Environmental Monitoring Imagery<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 6, 2009<br \/>\n[11-06-09] RapidEye has been contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide satellite imagery for monitoring and change detection in areas prone to natural disasters, RapidEye announced Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Eumetsat, ESA Lay Groundwork for GMES<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 23, 2009<br \/>\n[07-23-09] The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) signed a framework agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ESA Moves Ahead on GMES<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 30, 2009<br \/>\n[01-30-09] An amendment to the GMES (Global Monitoring Environment and Security) agreement authorizes the completion of the five initial satellites for the program, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced Jan. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-20-09] Telespazio and Italian Space Agency joint venture e-Geos signed a 3.5 million euro ($5.2 million) contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply optical and radar satellite data for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program, e-Geos announced Nov. 19. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under the contract, e-Geos will provide the ESA with images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}