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ESTAÇÃO DE SATELITES DE SANTA MARIA

Reportagem RTP1 Programa "Linha da Frente"

Hoje, 22 de Junho, o Programa "Linha da Frente" (RTP1) é dedicado à Estação de Santa Maria dos Açores. A reportagem, com início às 21h e duração de 30 minutos, dá assim a conhecer uma das múltiplas capacidades da Edisoft – empresa do Grupo EMPORDEF - que faz presentemente a monitorização do Atlântico Norte, via satélite, e fornece dados à Agência Europeia de Segurança Marítima. A empresa investiu na instalação de uma estação de recepção de dados de satélite, e estabeleceu parcerias para receber imagens dos satélitesENVISAT e RADARSAT de forma a poder detectar manchas de poluição e derrames de hidrocarbonetos no Atlântico Norte. 

Foi a primeira empresa portuguesa a desenvolver trabalho para o Programa Galileo, a rede de satélites de georeferenciação europeia, que se espera vir a competir com a tecnologia norte-americana do sistema GPS, tendo participado activamente na definição da arquitectura e das especificações do sistema. 

Actualmente, a Edisoft controla toda a cadeia de valor do SAR - Search and Rescue, uma das fileiras do Galileo. De salientar, também,que na semana de 6 a 10 de Junho se procedeu a um upgrade da referida Estação , no sentido de aumentar a sua capacidade de suporte às missões dos lançadores. Nessa semana foram feitos testes com o centro de operações com kouru no sentido de validar tecnicamente a estação. Os testes foram bem sucedidos, pelo que neste momento a Estação de Santa Maria está capacitada não só para o suporte ao lançamento do Ariane 5, mas também dos novos lançadores Soyuz2 (cooperação entre a ESA e a Roscomos - Russia) e Vega (EU).

Em Julho e Agosto será feita a Qualificação Operacional da Estação para o lançamento do primeiro voo do Soyuz2 que levará como payload, o que será o primeiro satélite operacional Galileo, a ser lançado em Outubro. Esta qualificação operacional será feita conjuntamente com as outras 4 estações que farão parte do networking de suporte à missão. De realçar que este upgrade permitirá fazer não só a recolha de telemetria do lançador mas também do próprio payload, o que constitui um novo desafio operacional. Dezembro de 2011, acrescente-se ainda, é o mês oficial para o lançamento do Vega com o payload Lares (Satélite). A Estação de Santa Maria estará envolvida não só no suporte ao lançamento do Vega mas também da Telemetria do Lares. Adiante-se que em Fevereiro/Março de 2012 será lançado o terceiro ATV (ATV 3 - Eduado Almadi). A Estação de Santa Maria participará também neste lançamento. No final do Ano de 2013 está previsto o lançamento do ATV 4 - Albert Einstein também com a participação da Estação. Entretanto outros lançamentos do Soyuz com outros satélites Galileo são esperados para 2012 e 2013.

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EDISOFT welcomes the adoption of EOS White Papers

January 2010

EDISOFT welcomes the adoption of the first White Papers of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) on Border Management, Border Surveillance, Civil Protection, Energy Infrastructure Protection and Resilience, Civil Aviation Security, ICT Security, Supply Chain Security and Surface Transport Security. They are publicly available to the broader public on

http://www.eos-eu.com/WHITEPAPERS/tabid/225/Default.aspx.

 

These White Papers promote a transversal approach that covers all aspects and sectors of security, including cross-cutting aspects. To ensure consistency, the White Papers are incorporated in a global vision for a comprehensive European security approach considerate of local and national security concerns and promoted by EOS Position Paper on Priorities for a Future European Security Framework, which is retrievable from

http://www.eos-eu.com/Publications/POSITIONPAPER/tabid/235/Default.aspx.

 

EDISOFT is an active member of EOS, which, after two years of intense work to build these common positions, is proud of this big achievement that for the first time sees stakeholders of the European Security Market brought together to agree on common messages for the consistent development and harmonization of the market to be proposed to the EU Institutions, the Member States, the Users and Operators and the broader public. The suggested priority actions, and in particular the establishment of sector specific EU Security Programmes, will now be proposed for discussion to the new Commissioners and the European Parliament.

 

EDISOFT is confident that the recommendations contained in the EOS White Papers and Position Paper will contribute to reducing the fragmentation of the national and European security market, thus promoting the development of a stronger market for innovative security technologies as well as the consistent implementation of security solutions and services.

 

EOS Members, end of 2009, having contributed to the released White Papers

 

EDISOFT Wins CleanSeaNet to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)

March 2007

Following an open call for tenders, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has set in place contracts for a service which will provide EU Member States with processed satellite data for the monitoring and detection of illegal discharges and accidental oil spills at sea. The main focus of the service will be to provide the Member States with continuity of service, economies of scale and rapid response times in supplying processed information.

“This is a first, and significant, step in the process whereby EMSA assists Member States and the Commission in detecting illegal and accidental discharges at sea,” said EMSA Executive Director, Willem de Ruiter. “The Member States have the responsibility for implementing Directive 2005/35/EC and this service will ensure that they will be given the necessary support so that maritime pollution monitoring and detection can be done on a larger and more sustainable scale.”

Background

CleanSeaNet is a European operational system for satellite detection of oil slicks. The service will begin operating in mid-April 2007 and will provide analysed images from ENVISAT and RADARSAT satellites. A network of receiving stations in Norway, Italy and the Azores (the latter as of 2008) will receive the satellite data, which will then be relayed to control centres for rapid processing and analysis by trained operators. The operators will assess the images generated, together with external meteorological information, to determine the likelihood of the presence of oil on the sea surface and the source of the pollution. The processed and analysed information will then be sent simultaneously to the national authorities in the affected Member States and to EMSA. The time from data acquisition by the satellite to the receipt of processed information by pollution control authorities will be a maximum of 30 minutes.

EMSA has signed a contract with Eurimage SpA, which is the authorised commercial licence distributor for ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar) images from the European Space Agency (ESA) ENVISAT satellite. For access to RADARSAT data, a contract has been signed with MDA, which is the holder of the distribution rights to Canada's RADARSAT-1 satellite and to the future RADARSAT-2 satellite, which is to be launched later this year. A consortium of service providers will be responsible for the downloading, processing, analysis and dissemination of the images and derived information, including alerts, to participating coastal states and to EMSA. The consortium consists of Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (Norway), Telespazio s.p.A (Italy) and Edisoft (Portugal).

In this area, EMSA was recently tasked, according to Article 10 of Directive 2005/35/EC of 7th September 2005 on Ship-Source Pollution and on the Introduction of Penalties for Infringements of the European Parliament and Council, to “work with the Member States in developing technical solutions and providing technical assistance in relation to the implementation of this Directive, in actions such as tracing discharges by satellite monitoring and surveillance.”

The scope and aims of the service are to provide:

• a European satellite surveillance system for detecting oil slicks at sea, which will be operational from mid-April 2007, and which can respond to requests from all EU and EFTA coastal states and the European Commission.
• a system that is linked to national and regional response chains, and which strengthens operational pollution response when dealing with accidental and deliberate discharges from ships.
• coastal states with the ability to locate and identify polluters in areas under their jurisdiction. They will have access to satellite images and associated information over the web, and will receive alerts when potential slicks are identified.
• geographical coverage of the following sea regions:
- Baltic Sea.
- North Sea and areas around UK, Norway and Iceland.
- West European waters from English Channel to Gibraltar.
- Mediterranean Sea.
- Western Black Sea.
- Canary Islands and Atlantic EEZ (from 2008)

EDISOFT becomes member of Galileo-Services

March 2007

EDISOFT becomes member of Galileo-Services

Galileo Services is a non-profit organization designed to be a major partner for the Galileo downstream technology and business development (terminals, applications and services), with a view to sustaining the Galileo programme. The aim is to foster an "end to end" vision of the Galileo system in order to fully respond to user and market needs.

Galileo Services will work to bolster the economic value of the Galileo system, and intends to contribute towards the development of value-added services to fully exploit all possible business potential.

According to the vision of Galileo Services members, Galileo will strongly enhance the capabilities of satellite navigation, allowing the development of the incumbent location-based services market.

Galileo Services aims to develop technologies and test out services and applications that can fulfill market expectations, leading to significant job creation opportunities and benefits offered by Galileo in terms of added safety, cleaner air and enhanced transport infrastructures.  

EDISOFT acquires 50% of VisionWare

September 2006

EDISOFT acquires 50% of VisionWare, a Portuguese IT company, specialized in network computing and information systems' security solutions. Within this partnership, both companies will contribute to the development and marketing of common solutions for the world of information technologies. This technological alliance is framed within EDISOFT's investment policy and reflects the Company's commitment to maintain the highest quality, innovation and performance patterns in its relations with each and every customer and partner.

EDISOFT host Tips Meeting.

January 2005

EDISOFT has hosted on 27th January, a meeting aiming to establish the current "Allied Ground Surveillance" (AGS) development status, similarly to what has been presented in other European capitals.
EDISOFT is TIPS focal point for the Portuguese industries participating in this NATO programme.
The TIPS solution is a transatlantic industrial response to provide NATO with an AGS core capability, contributing with situational awareness to a shared common ground picture available to NATO and national decision makers for missions involving border surveillance, homeland security and the war on terrorism. NATO AGS mixed fleet will also be a core component for the NATO Response Force, providing a critical capability designed to meet its Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Command and Control (C2) requirements for the 21st century. At the heart of the AGS system is the state-of-the-art radar Transatlantic Cooperative AGS Radar (TCAR) being integrated on both the manned and unmanned platforms.

EDISOFT is CMM Level 2 Certified.

October 2004

EDISOFT is the first Portuguese company to have the maturity level of its software development projects officially appraised under CMM (Capability Maturity Model) Model of SEI (Software Engineering Institute) from Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. The company, and specifically its SDP (software development process), has been evaluated by an independent team of international assessors achieving CMM #45- level 2.

EDISOFT Wins NATO International Competition

August 2004

EDISOFT will begin the development of the Observation Collection Programme (OCP) application for NATO's Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC). EDISOFT's proposal was considered technically fitted and economically advantageous by the Joint Command Lisbon (JCL), NATO's Command located in Oeiras, in the international bidding competition that registered the participation of other NATO traditional suppliers. JALLC is the NATO Centre responsible for the joint analysis of operations, training and exercises e it maintains a centralised Lessons Learned Database. JALLC hence serves as NATO's focal point for the gathering and analysis of lessons learned.OCP is the application software that will allow the gathering and analysis of observations during exercises or operations, by NATO Commands and the Permanent Analysis Team (PAT).The OCP application developed by EDISOFT shall be applied already during the next Exercise ALLIED WARRIOR.

VII International Atlantic Symposium On C4I

June 2004

On the past 7th and 8th June Lisbon received the VII International Atlantic Symposium On C4I dedicated to the theme Information - The Weapon of the XXI Century. EDISOFT's CEO, Sergio Parreira de Campos, was one of the orators of this event, promoted by the AFCEA Portugal, with a lecture subordinated to the subject Sensors Feelings - Data Fusion in New Theatres, which was received enthousiastically by the interested Symposium attendees.

Project SCORE

June 2004

Participation of Edisoft, with Alcatel, in program SCORE www.score112.org

EDISOFT

May 2004

EDISOFT is the Fifth largest Software House in Portugal.

ILA Berlim 2004

May 2004

At the ILA Berlin 2004 Exhibition, the NH-90 helicopter performed its first flight This helicopter presents software components developed by EDISOFT.

EDISOFT in Portugal in Space Forum

April 2004

EDISOFT participated in the Portugal in Space Fórum, at the Lisbon Congress Center.

EDISOFT and EURIMAGE

March 2004

EDISOFT is a Worldwide Application Provider of EURIMAGE