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EADS North America has received a five-year contract to provide commercial radar satellite data to the U.S. government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for use in intelligence, military and homeland security applications. The data will be provided by the geo-information service provider, Infoterra GmbH, an EADS Astrium subsidiary that holds the commercial exploitation rights for the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X.

Report on "Haiti Earthquake Surface Shift Estimation Using TerraSAR-X Data" published by DLR's Remote Sensing Technology Institute

Infoterra installs a "Virtual Ground Station" in Kuala Lumpur // Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency equipped with order workstation // Weather-independent radar satellite data will support flood risk management

Infoterra, DELPHI IMM and IABG: working group to update and complete almost 360,000 square kilometres of geodata -- Main project started in production centres in Potsdam and Dresden

More than twenty experts representing TerraSAR-X Distribution Partners from across Europe are gathering in Karlsruhe for a 2-day workshop.

Norwegian Satellite Center joins Infoterra's global distribution network - contract signed between Rolf Skatteboe, KSAT President & CEO and Joerg Herrmann, Infoterra's Managing Director

ESA awards 2.4 Mio Euro Contract to Infoterra GmbH // Interfaces for Direct Ordering of Data for GMES Services to be installed

A delegation of four executives of the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has recently visited Infoterra's Production Site in Potsdam and the TerraSAR-X Receiving Station in Neustrelitz.

During this visit, Dr. Dr. S. O. Mohammed, the NASRDAs Director General, and Infoterras Managing Director Joerg Herrmann signed a Memorandum of Understanding defining a roadmap for a close cooperation over the years to come.

Radar satellite was launched June 15th, 2007; commercial business operations are reliably conducted since early 2008.

Infoterra's parent company Astrium completes construction work; Spacecraft to be transported to test facilities next week

Katherina Reiche is impressed by Infoterra's novel interpretation methods for TerraSAR-X data

European Built-up Areas Mapped Homogeneously for the First Time --- EEA officially recognizes quality of delivered mapping product --- Infoterra GmbH leads European Service provider network

NGA's CCA Project Group evaluates and verifies TerraSAR-X's outstanding geolocation accuracy: Infoterra's commercial radar satellite data at 1m and 3m resolution exceeds NGA's purchase requirements.

21 CSI chairman and CEO Jeffrey D. Hicks and Infoterra GmbH Managing Director Joerg Herrmann have signed a respective agreement early March, 2009 in 21 CSI's Arlington, VA offices.

Infoterra's Partner Apogee Imaging International uses cloud-independent acquisitions to assess destructions

A TerraSAR-X ScanSAR image acquired on Feb 11th, 2009 was merged into a composite with a previous image obtained from the TerraSAR-X archive. Comparing the post-fire acquisition to the archive data from the 20th of April 2008 enabled Apogee to extract relevant information on the fire's impact: Changes can be seen in red.

Students use TerraSAR-X Data as basis for GIS project

Infoterra has contributed free TerraSAR-X data covering the project area of the first ever ESRI Summer Camp in Africa, part of Rwanda’s "ArcGIS in Secondary Schools" initiative. During this camp, pupils went to the study area to collect geographic coordinates from housings, parcels, water wells and electricity lines with GPS technology and satellite images.