5 December 2008

Spacemetric attended the 2008 MARS Annual Conference "Geomatics in support of the CAP" held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 3rd to 5th December 2008. This fourteenth annual conference dealt with CwRS (Control with Remote Sensing), area aid checks in general and the LPIS (Land Parcel Information System). It was jointly hosted by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Republic of Slovenia.

As part of Spacemetric's conference participation the company's CEO, Lars Edgardh, co-chaired the session Technical 2: Image processing, data serving together with Pär Åstrand of the JRC. Spacemetric also won the conference prize for Best Software Demonstration for Saccess, the Swedish national satellite image database and the Keystone image server that is used by customers including Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and the European Space Agency.

Highlighted at the conference was the Community Image Data (CID) portal that is a focal point for management and distribution of geospatial imagery within the JRC and to which Spacemetric has made significant contributions including catalogue and image geometrical processing capabilities.