Requests for satellite imagery and associated products could be made to a number of vendors, including Satellitbild.

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Preparation of a map of Damascus and surroundings from satellite images.

Pictures can be transmitted in real time or stored on the satellite.

The work continues to be based on the interpretation of satellite images, mainly Land Remote Sensing Satellite (LANDSAT) thematic mapper data, to map the present status of land cover and features.

Amateur satellites of the UOSAT series are capable of transmitting images of the surface of Earth, as well as meteorological data.

Uses satellite images from NOAA, Landsat and SPOT satellites in order to update medium scale maps, monitor the oceanic environment and assess forest conditions.

It also distributes by facsimile the cloud images obtained.

two NOAA AVHRR and METEOSAT PDUS low resolution satellite image acquisition stations

Landsat and SPOT images and aerial photography are used.

Satellite imagery, along with other meteorological data, is used for weather forecasting.

Images acquired by these satellites are now commercially available.

In order to access other Earth observation satellites, the CRTS, which is responsible for distributing satellite images throughout the Kingdom, has concluded contracts with international image distributors SPOT IMAGE in France for Spot data, EURIMAGE in Italy for NOAA, LANDSAT, ERS data etc.

Specialized in forestry, agriculture and geology, produces thematic geological and agricultural maps by using Landsat and SPOT images.

The work is largely based on classifications derived from LANDSAT thematic mapper images.

The two satellites operate together to provide images of the western hemisphere both by day and by night.

Insufficient access to satellite imagery for teaching and research purposes

A subsidiary to the Swedish Space Corporation, the SSC Satellitbild, is situated in Kiruna Its main tasks are to process, analyse and distribute images from the SPOT and Landsat satellites on a commercial basis.

Of all the images received from the LANDSAT and SPOT satellites, 10 per cent are considered to be usable, owing to the cloud cover in the area.

The United States also used images acquired from the United States civil Landsat and the French SPOT remote sensing satellites for updating the maps of the conflict region.17

The increased capability of the civil remote sensing satellites and marketing the images thus generated.

Degradation arises from turbulence in the night air, causing the image of a star to twinkle.

. The Meeting was informed that, as of September 1995, EUMETSAT had commenced implementation of the policy of charging a fee for access to direct read out Meteosat HRI data.

SSC Satellitbild in Kiruna is processing and distributing SPOT data in co operation with the French company SPOT Image.

The Directorate of Climatology of Lebanon has an earth station to gather analog images (Wefax format) from the climate based satellites (geostationary satellites).

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Users could also directly access metadata, in other words, information on the availability and quality of satellite images, and even preview samples of images.

The Russian defence satellite imagery is available as monographic (areas of 40 by 160 km with 2 metre details) and stereographic (areas of 200 by 300 km with 10 metre details) imagery.

SPOT Image, which has been commercially operating SPOT satellites for more than 10 years, has become a world leader on the market for geographical information stemming from satellite imaging.

It also distributes by facsimile the cloud image charts thus obtained.

Until recently, the highest resolution satellite images commercially available have been 10 m resolution SPOT images.

The following satellites have been designated in the Russian Federation for current monitoring operations Meteor 2, Meteor 3, Resurs 01, Okean 01, Resurs F1, Resurs F2, Oblik and Elektro.

OrbView 3 would provide 1 and 2 metre resolution in panchromatic mode, 4 metre resolution in multispectral mode, and 8 metre resolution in hyperspectral mode (280 bands) imaging, and would complement the capabilities of the existing satellites.

For 10 years, SPOT image has been distributing pictures from SPOT satellites to the world and, to date, 4,500,000 pictures have been captured and archived, forming a true memory of our planet.

It participates in several international campaigns for the study of the ozone concentration. It also operates for educational purposes a secondary satellite station for low resolution images from Meteosat and NOAA satellites.

The distribution of satellite images in the Kingdom is the responsibility of CRTS.

Lectures were presented on the following subjects archiving, catalogue updating and standard production of images image processing, value added production, radiometric and geometric corrections, and production of digital elevation models and orthoimages computerized cartography standard and higher level processed imagery and future Earth resources satellites.

Lectures were also presented on the following subjects archiving, catalogue updating and standard production of images image processing, value added production, radiometric and geometric corrections, digital elevation model (DEM) production and other image production computerized cartography standard and higher level processed imagery and future Earth resource satellites.

The data have been obtained by visual interpretation of Landsat TM geocoded images followed by digitalization.

As the ground facility to operate GMS, the Agency has the Meteorological Satellite Centre, which comprises the Data Processing Centre for image data processing and the Command and Data Acquisition Station for communication between the Data Processing Centre and GMS.

The Directorate of Climatology of Lebanon has an Earth station to gather analogue images (Wefax format) from climate related satellites (geostationary satellites).

Since 1976, efforts have been undertaken to promote the understanding and use of satellite imagery in educational activities (use of Landsat images), and since 1987, the French Ministry of Education has supported educational experiments to promote satellite remote sensing in courses given in three educational disciplines.

Satellite images were capable of providing a synoptic view of the problem and were particularly useful for that purpose.

Russian high resolution satellite imagery is being evaluated for the same purpose.

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