Ann Hitchcock, Autor auf 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

July 11, 2018

First Version of Copernicus Data & Information Access Service (DIAS)

52°North contributes to WEkEO (We knowledge Earth Observation)

As part of the Copernicus Programme’s 20th anniversary, EUMETSAT, ECMWF and Mercator Océan recently revealed the first version of the Copernicus Data & Information Access Service (DIAS) for environmental data. It is called WEkEO (short for “We knowledge Earth Observation”). 52°North and con terra, as part of a larger consortium led by CGI Germany, contributed to the development of the underlying service infrastructure. They provided expertise in the fields of Earth Observation metadata management, as well as harmonized and interoperable access to the data.

Check out the software solutions live in action on the WEkEO portal at https://www.wekeo.eu/. Take a closer look at what WEkEO and its services are all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33yE3aa4DNA.

June 20, 2018

WaCoDiS Annual Meeting

First results presented and next steps discussed and synchronized

Last week 52°North welcomed the entire WaCoDiS project consortium for the annual status meeting. more >

May 8, 2018

Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Hackathon 2018

Demonstrating Deployment and Execution of Earth Observation Exploitation Platforms

The Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Hackathon recently took place at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt. 52°North’s Benjamin Pross participated in the testing of various client and service implementations.

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April 24, 2018

52°North welcomes student for Google Summer of Code 2018

52°North mentors one student project

This year’s Google Summer of Code accepted 1,264 students to work with 206+ open source projects. The students come from 64 different countries. 52°North is pleased to be a mentoring organization for the 7th year in a row. more >