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Data providers
DigitalGlobe, of Longmont, Colorado, USA, is a private commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft. The company offers the world's highest resolution commercial satellite imagery and maintains the most current and accurate content library.
QuickBird, launched on October 18, 2001, is DigitalGlobe's primary satellite, which was built in partnership with Ball Aerospace and Orbital Sciences. DigitalGlobe plans to launch its next generation of satellites, with WorldView I scheduled for launch in 2007 and WorldView II in late 2008, to be built by Ball Aerospace. DigitalGlobe has partnered with Boeing for launch of the WorldView satellites on Delta II.
DigitalGlobe’s customers range from urban planners, to the U.S. federal agencies, including NASA and the United States Department of Defense's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). As well, much of Google Earth and Google Maps high resolution-imagery is provided by DigitalGlobe, as is imagery used in Microsoft's TerraServer.
GeoEye is the world's largest commercial satellite imagery company. GeoEye's headquarters are in Dulles, Virginia. GeoEye operates its own fleet of imaging satellites (IKONOS, ORBVIEW), which provide visible and near-infrared images at resolutions below 1 meter. GeoEye-1 is due to launch in 2007.
RapidEye AG Company (Germany) was founded in 1998 and the business concept was initiated in 1996 by Kayser-Threde GmbH, a German space engineering company, with support from the German Space Agency (DLR). RapidEye provides geospatial products and services, as well as consulting solutions, derived from Earth observation data. The primary source of this data is the RapidEye constellation of five imaging satellites (were launched successfully on August 29th, 2008) that are capable of imaging large areas of land at high resolution on a frequent basis. Head office is situated in Brandenburg (till 2004 – in Munich).
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) was incorporated in 1969 by two British Columbia entrepreneurs, John MacDonald, and Werner Dettwiler with the objective of providing innovative electronic solutions for complex customer requirements. Over the past four decades MDA has created a highly skilled organization that provides advanced information solutions which capture and process vast amounts of data, produce essential information, and improve the decision making and operational performance of business and government organizations worldwide. The Company operates through two reporting segments: Information Products and Information Systems and employs over 3,200 people through offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
RESTEC conducts research based on various domestic and international data collected via high resolution optical sensors and synthetic aperture radars. Restec opens new opportunities in areas where Earth monitoring data can be put to practical use and also plans future satellite implementation. The company gives training of remote sensing technology with the aim to use and disseminate Earth monitoring data. As well, Restec designs and develops Earth observation data processing systems, and processing software.
Spot Image is a French operator of SPOT remote-sensing satellites and is a commercial vendor of space imagery. The company's main shareholders are CNES (41%) and EADS (40%). The company headquarters are located in Toulouse, France. SPOT (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre) is a high-resolution, optical imaging earth observation satellite system operating from space. It has been designed to improve the knowledge and management of the earth by exploring the earth's resources, detecting and forecasting phenomena involving climatology and oceanography, and monitoring human activities and natural phenomena. The SPOT system includes a series of satellites and ground control resources for satellite control and programming, image production and distribution.
Infoterra GmbH is part of the Infoterra Group which comprises companies in France, Germany and the United Kingdom with over 450 employees. Infoterra is a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS Astrium. Launched in 2001, Infoterra GmbH holds the exclusive commercial exploitation rights for the radar satellite TerraSAR data, as soon as the satellite becomes operational in 2007. In the early 2008 Infoterra GmbH is planning TanDEM-X Mission (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement).
Antrix Corporation (Antrix Corporation Limited) is the marketing arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
The name "Antrix" is an anglicised version of the Sanskrit/Hindi word "Antarriksh", meaning "Space".
The Vision statement of Antrix Corporation: to emerge as a globally significant space company fully utilising the strengths of ISRO and other Indian entities in the field of space.
Antrix Offers commercial satellite images from the IRS and CARTOSAT satellites as well as satellite launch services.
e-GEOS, a Telespazio (80%) / ASI (20%) company, is a leading international player in the geo-spatial business. e-GEOS is today a world leader in environmental and maritime monitoring and in rapid mapping for the management of natural disasters and humanitarian crises. e-GEOS offers a complete range of products and services in the Earth Observation and in the geo-spatial application domains, based on both optical and radar satellites as well as on aerial surveys. In particular, company represents a constellation of four SAR satellites, COSMO-SkyMed, provides all-weather, day and night, world-wide radar data acquisitions.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The USGS is the primary civilian mapping agency in the United States, and is best known for its 1:24,000 scale topographic maps. Their recent program, the National Maps, is an attempt to be the ultimate online mapping service for the United States. The USGS also has a vigorous Business Partners program through which they encourage the reselling of their maps so that the public can have quicker, easier access to information. USGS operates Landsat, Aster, Hyperion. The motto of the USGS is "Science for a changing world."
European Space Imaging (EUSI), headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a commercial Regional Affiliate of Space Imaging Inc. EUSI was established October 2002 with the main investor being Space Imaging Middle East LLC of Dubai, UAE. EUSI has two main strategic technology partners: GAF AG of Munich, Germany, and DLR, the German Aerospace Center, based in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich. The company is the preeminent supplier of high quality, high-resolution, global IKONOS satellite imagery and derived information products to customers in Europe.
Eurimage is concerned with supplying a great many of users with world-wide digital and photographic imagery all over the world. Eurimage products include radar, optic and IR data meeting a wide range of needs. Eurimage provides Earth observation products and services, offering worldwide remote sensing users a unique multi-mission service.
Khrunichev State Space Scientific Production Center is a Moscow-based producer of space-launch systems named after Mikhail Khrunichev - a soviet minister.
The Khrunichev plant was established during World War II to produce heavy bomber aircraft, and continued in this role during the 50s. The plant's involvement with space and missile technology began in 1960 when the plant was responsible for a series of ballistic missiles and heavy launch vehicles carrying the UR- designation UR-100 ('Sego') ICBM; UR-100N ('Stilleto') ICBM; UR-200, a heavy ICBM which never entered service; and UR-500 super-heavy ICBM, which later became the Proton rocket. Khrunichev was transferred to the Salyut Design Bureau in the late seventies, then between 1981 and 1988 was part of NPO Energia. It became an independent entity in 1988. Khrunichev is also part of the International Launch Services (ILS) joint venture with the Lockheed Martin. Khrunichev was the manufacturer of manned space stations including Mir, the Salyut series and the Almaz modules.
Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring (NTs OMZ) is an affiliate of the Space Observation Center which is a directing agency of Roskosmos.
NTs OMZ provides remote sensing data of different spatial resolution from Russian and foreign satellites. NTs OMZ offers services on data thematic processing and value-added product generation in accordance with consumer’s requirements.
NTs OMZ’s is concerned with satellite data collection, processing, and delivering to consumers; imagery archive and electronic catalogue generation and support; advancement and upgrade of ground facilities and technologies; development of scientific and applied projects.
Operated by NTs OMZ, Resurs-DK1 is a commercial earth observation satellite able of transmitting high-resolution imagery (1 m) to the ground stations as it passes overhead. The satellite is designed for remote sensing of the Earth’s surface aimed at acquiring high-quality visible images in near real-time as well as on-line data delivery via radio link and providing a wide range of consumers with value-added processed data.
Software providers
ITT Visual Information Solutions provides the latest data visualization and image analysis solutions - IDL, ENVI and IAS for scientific customers, engineers, researchers and medical professionals.
ITT Visual Information Solutions are used in various industries - earth remote sensing, engineering, aerospace and defense, medicine, oil and gas exploration and biotechnology. The experienced ITT team offers training, consulting and technical support to all customers
Founded in 1980 German company INPHO is considered to be qualitative provider first-class software products, and it turned into a full photogrammetric system supplier in 2000. INPHO's portfolio covers the entire workflow of photogrammetric projects, including aerial triangulation, stereo compilation, terrain modeling, orthophoto production and image capture. INPHO has got a large customer base with more than 1000 users in more than 100 countries all over the world. Typical users of INPHO products are service companies offering geo-data collection by photogrammetry and LIDAR, as well as all state authorities involved in supplying geoinformation.
The ESRI company is the world's leading leading developers and suppliers of GIS software.
Company Ltd. The ESRI was established in 1969 by president Jack Dendzhermond. The head office of ESRI is located in Redlands, California (USA). The total number of employees exceeds 4000. Family of ArcGIS software products – the optimal solution for corporative, industry, regional, state GIS. The ArcGiS software created on the basis of the most modern computer technology, supports all open (OGC) standards, which allows to use it for various application areas and at different levels of organization of work (desktop, server and mobile GIS). Representative in Russia - ESRI CIS.
ESRI CIS
Company Ltd. "ESRI CIS" was established in Moscow in May 2008.
Decision on the establishment of the company was taken by two leading companies in the creation and promotion of geographic information technologies, namely, ESRI, Inc. (California, USA) and "DATA +" (Moscow, Russian Federation).
The main task of ESRI CIS is dissemination of ESRI, Inc. GIS technologies
Bentley Systems Incorporated based in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA provides software for design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure. The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. Their software solutions are used to design, engineer, build and operate large constructed assets such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. Bentley's principal software solution is MicroStation, being a 2D/3D CAD platform from which Bentley software divisions and third-party software companies can build more specific solutions.
Schlumberger Water Services
The Schlumberger company is one of the largest oilfield services companies in the world, offering a full range of technologies and services for the development and support infrastructure of oil and gas industry. On the Russian market the company is present since 1929.
Schlumberger Water Services is a division of Schlumberger, which specializes in developing software solutions for solving problems of management and operation of water resources: Visual MODFLOW, Hydro GeoAnalyst, AquaChem, Aquifer Test Pro, GW Contour, etc. The head office is of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada).
Founded in 2003, SPACEYES is a French company specialized in Earth observation image processing. SPACEYES is editing a 3D visualization line of products dedicated to anyone who wants to communicate, explain, inform or present any aspect of management or enhancement of an area to a non-specialist public. SPACEYES’ main customers are local authorities, government agencies, gas and water companies, land surveyors, universities… Because SPACEYES offers its software but also services as the performance of 3D models for its customers, SPACEYES has become a major actor of the 3D world.
Oracle
The company is the world's leading supplier of information management software and the world's second largest independent software company. Traces its history since 1977, has branches in more than 145 countries around the world, has more than 74 thousand employees. The most famous product of Oracle is the same name database. In recent years, Oracle is also distributing it’s activities in all areas which are interested for medium and large business: development tools for business applications, automation, etc. The company headquarters are located in small town Redwood (USA, California, near San Francisco).
Partners
Talka
Group of companies Talka was founded in 2005. The Company included in the group (OOO Talka, LLC Talka-GIS, NPF Talka TJV) perform all work in the field of geodesy, cartography, land management and cadastre, conduct aerial surveys, aerial and ground-based laser scanning, lead processing of satellite imagery, including the establishment of three-dimensional models and develop GIS software.
Established in 1993 Racurs provides cost-effective software solutions and services in digital photogrammetry and GIS. PHOTOMOD is Racurs’ key item being one of the first digital photogrammetric products. Racurs is specialized in digital mapping software applied in space, land and aerial imagery processing. Immediate technical support and training are available upon request.
Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise "Geoinformation Systems" of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise "Geoinformation Systems" of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was established in 1996, is engaged in the development and implementation of GIS technologies and systems with using of aerospace remote sensing data to solve the problems of national economic, managerial, environmental and other spheres of activity.
Design bureau "Panorama" is engaged in the development and implementation of geographic information systems and technologies, corporate information systems and mapping Web sites as in the national economy and in the interest of national defense. The company's products (professional GIS "Map 2011", municipal GIS Land and Property », GIS WebServer, GIS Server 2008, tools developer GIS ToolKit, GIS for agriculture, GIS operating systems Linux, Solaris, Windows Mobile, etc.) use more than 18,000 users across Russia and abroad. More than 80 educational institutions use products Panoramas for training. The performance characteristics of products KB "Panorama" is not inferior to foreign analogues.
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