9 January 2009

The European Space Agency (ESA) is transferring the Web Mapping Services (WMS) of its satellite imagery catalogue onto Spacemetric's Keystone server. The move to Keystone introduces a new generation of technology that offers enhanced capabilities and new options for future extension of WMS services.

Keystone replaces the existing WMS image server (MUIS2WMS) that was developed for ESA by Spacemetric in 2004. The WMS image server provides orthocorrected image quicklooks in response to queries to the ESA catalogue of satellite data. This enables the results to be displayed in a map view by a WMS client so that relative coverage and content of each image can be reviewed in their true geographical context.

The new Keystone server will be delivered to the Agency during the first quarter of 2009.