News Archive 2008

Significant uplifts of the Earth's surface in the city center of Staufen im Breisgau, Germany: up to 3 cm within only three months.

DLR communicates with TerraSAR-X Earth Observation satellite via laser beam

Infoterra Group & Spot Image to work together within the Earth Observation Division of Astrium Services

Parent Company Receives Appreciation Letter from Chinese National Disaster Reduction Committee

TerraSAR-X Special Session and Sino-German Workshop

Easy Access to TerraSAR Archive Data: footprint of archived scenes downloadable for review and ordering.

Emergency response operations following the recent earthquake in the province of Sichuan, China, are now being supported through the rapid provision of high-quality radar and optical satellite imagery as well as detailed evaluations of this data by Infoterra GmbH and Spot Image SA.

Two Laser Terminals of Tesat-Spacecom, Backnang (Germany), have been successfully tested for broadband data transmission in space between two satellites, the German TerraSAR-X and the U.S.-Satellite NFIRE. The date rate of 5.5 Gbit per second demonstrated during those tests sets a new worldwide milestone in space-borne communications.

As an established provider of geo-information services with a leading role in the European GMES initiative, Infoterra has made a significant contribution to the definition of the thematic capabilities of ESA's upcoming Sentinel family of Earth observation satellites: The successful development and demonstration of sustainable geo-information services and the resulting long-term data needs are a key prerequisite for these missions.

The Minister of Economic Affairs for the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany, has now officially opened Infoterra GmbH's new offices in Potsdam's Wilhelm Galerie.

Only 48 hours after UNOSAT, a United Nations operational programme of UNITAR that provides an enhanced access to satellite imagery, contacted Infoterra GmbH's teams in Friedrichshafen, the company's experts were able to deliver a readily processed high-resolution radar image acquired by the new German radar satellite TerraSAR-X.

Astrium, ICC and Hisdesat join forces to strengthen Earth observation service provision: Astrium today announced that it has entered into a joint-venture with the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC), the Catalan official mapping agency, and Hisdesat, a space services provider, to create Infoterra Servicios de Geoinformación SA (Infoterra SGSA).

Based on a TerraSAR-X ScanSAR Scene (resolution: 16m) acquired on Jan 30, 2008, Infoterra's Australian Distribution Partner Apogee Imaging International was able to provide a map of a flood event on Fitzroy river in Queensland, Australia.

Data acquired by the first commercial high- resolution radar satellite TerraSAR-X is now operationally available: Infoterra GmbH, the owner of the exclusive commercial exploitation rights for this data, has announced its commercial sales operations to be up-and-running. Less than seven months after launch – precisely as scheduled – the TerraSAR-X commissioning phase is finalized: The satellite is functioning flawlessly, and all related ground infrastructure has been implemented and tested successfully.