Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development   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.   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.   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.   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.   Monitoring of natural regeneration in protected forest areas. Image courtesy of H.G. Geo Data Solutions   Extraction of forest tracks from simulated very high resolution satellite imagery. Image courtesy of Definiens   Surface model showing tree heights derived from Interferometric SAR. Credits: sarmap   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.   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.   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. Release date: 4 October 2007