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Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development
 
7 February 2006

Oil sands
Oil sands extraction in northern Alberta, Canada. Satellite imagery will help Corporate Sustainable Development reporting for this activity, which is taking place in a rural part of the country.

Credits: Shell/Albian
 
 
River Ely
Diffusers on the River Ely entering Cardiff Bay in Wales, used to improve water quality. Satellite imagery will be used to monitor the water in this vicinity as a part of an ESA Earth Observation Market Development programme project on Corporate Sustainable Development reporting.

Credits: AMEC
 
 
Dam
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The SUEZ-constructed Cana Brava hydropower dam in Brazil. A new ESA project seeks to apply satellite data to CSD reporting for SUEZ hydropower plants in locations including Laos, Brazil and France.

Credits: SUEZ
 
 
A quarry near Montreal
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This image, acquired on 15 July 2005, shows a quarry operated by Groupe Lafarge in Saint-Constant, south of Montreal. Satellite imagery is being used to measure sustainability in the field of mineral resource extraction.

Credits: Digital Globe
 
 
Monitoring of natural regeneration in protected forest areas. Image courtesy of H.G. Geo Data Solutions

Credits: H.G. Geo Data Solutions
 
 
Extraction of forest tracks from simulated very high resolution satellite imagery. Image courtesy of Definiens

Credits: Definiens
 
 
Surface model showing tree heights derived from Interferometric SAR. Credits: sarmap

Credits: sarmap
 
 
Cardiff Bay
Layout of aeration system used to improve water quality in and around Cardiff Bay, showing adjacent zones of mixing influence. Earth Observation-derived water colour information will be used to operate this technology as part of an ESA Earth Observation Market Development programme project on Corporate Sustainable Development.

Credits: AMEC
 
 
Albian mine site
Aerial view of a Shell/Albian oil sands site in Alberta, Canada. Satellite data are being used to enhance corporate sustainability reporting for this extraction process.

Credits: Shell/Albian
 
 
Landsat TM observations of the Muskeg River Basin for change detection: images acquired in September 2004 and May 2005. To the left, Landsat TM image extent shown as black triangle.

Credits: Shell/Albian
 
 
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