Geoserve has become UrtheCast distributor

On April 8th Geoserve signed an agreement with UrtheCast for thedistribution of UrtheCast products in the Benelux region. UrtheCast, headquartered in Canada and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, installed two earth sensing cameras on the International Space Station. A High Resolution Camera (HRC) that will produce 1-meter class, full color videos, and a Medium …

Geoserve demonstrates minister Henk Kamp new services

On May 12th Dutch minister of Economic affairs Henk Kamp visited the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR. One of the purposes of his visit was to see how the NLR supports Dutch companies in the Geomatics Business Park (GBP). With the NLR as it’s important shareholder, Geoserve showed the minister it’s recently introduced services: ALERT and …

Launch date of Sentinel-1A is published: 3rd of April 2014

The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to be prepared over the coming weeks for launch on 3 April this year. Sentinel-1 is a two satellite constellation with the prime objectives of Land and Ocean monitoring and the data will have a resolution up to 5m. The launch of Sentinel-1B …

WorldView-3 is complete and ready for launch in summer 2014

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed integration of WorldView-3, the next generation commercial remote-sensing satellite being built for DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions. WorldView-3, the fourth remote-sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe by Ball, is scheduled to launch from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base in summer 2014. WorldView-3 is the …

Geoserve wins Kompsat distribution rights

Geoserve recently acquired the rights to distribute images from the Korean Kompsat satellites. With this Geoserve customers gain access to 3 satellites that collect very-high resolution satellite images: Kompsat-2 (1 meter resolutions), Kompsat-3 (70 cm resolution), Kompsat 3A (55 cm resolution) and Kompsat-5 (1 meter resolution X-band SAR). Both archive images and new acquisition images …