{"id":88181,"date":"2009-11-07T00:57:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-selects-rapideye-to-provide-environmental-monitoring-imagery\/"},"modified":"2009-11-07T00:57:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:57:51","slug":"esa-selects-rapideye-to-provide-environmental-monitoring-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-selects-rapideye-to-provide-environmental-monitoring-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Selects RapidEye to Provide Environmental Monitoring Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-06-09] <strong>RapidEye <\/strong>has been contracted by the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) to provide satellite imagery for monitoring and change detection in areas prone to natural disasters, RapidEye announced Nov. 5.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract is based on a list of pre-defined, high-risk areas, for which RapidEye will provide satellite imagery before and after an emergency event has occurred. The RapidEye system aims to accommodate frequent monitoring intervals and&nbsp; provide up-to-date information on environmental changes&nbsp; using its ability to re-visit interest areas in orbit.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ESA will be using RapidEye\u2019s satellite imagery mainly for its \u2018Safer\u2019 program, a security and emergency project of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program in Europe. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;To support this project, we offer a special emergency order service to ESA by providing satellite data within 12-24 hours following a request,&#8221; said RapidEye spokesman Michael Prechtel, in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract is based on a list of pre-defined, high-risk areas, for which RapidEye will provide satellite imagery before and after an emergency event [&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-88181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88181"}],"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=88181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}