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Earth and Space Week: Third Earth Observation Summit agrees ten-year GEOSS action plan

17 February 2005

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At the Third Earth Observation summit delegates formally agreed a ten-year plan to implement a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

Credits: ESA-M. PEDOUSSAUT

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This 3 January 2005 Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image of Banda Aceh is shown along with high-resolution pre- and post-disaster optical Quickbird imagery. Located on the northern part of Sumatra, Banda Aceh is the capital of the devastated Indonesian territory of Aceh.

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A virtually cloud-free Europe captured by MSG-1

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Enhanced composite image taken at 12:00 UT on 10 August 2003, by Europe’s Meteosat Second Generation satellite (MSG-1). A year on from launch, this image illustrates the excellent performance of the innovative radiometer carried by MSG-1.

Composite image of visible information: red shows the 1.6 µm near infrared channel, green is the 8 µm visible channel, and blue the 0.6 µm visible channel. The image has been enhanced to appear ‘natural’ to the human eye.

Built by ESA and operated by Eumetsat, MSG-1 was launched by Ariane a year ago, on 28 August at 22:45 UT, from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana.

Credits: EUMETSAT

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This image of African land cover comes from a mosaic of Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) images acquired during the month of May 2004.

Credits: ESA