Taking a break from issues related to satellite imagery, in today's article from "Geoinformation Guide" series we want to present you free vecor and raster data regarding land cover for the area of Europe. Have you heard about the Corine Land Cover project?

On 26-27.10.2016 r. CIK representative participated in the cross-seminar organized by the Group of the Polish Society for Support of Entrepreneurship JSC in cooperation with among others 3M, Asseco, PolMed, Philips, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Bank of National Economy.

In today's article from the "Geoinformation Guide" series we will take a closer look at the LandsatLook Viewer web application, which allows for quick view and access to archives of images from the Landsat satellite.

On 29-30.09.2016 r. at the Polish Air Force Academy in Dęblin a scientific conference held place, organized in cooperation with i. a. the Land Forces Academy in Wrocław and the Strategic Planning College in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

In today's article from the "Geoinformation Guide" series we will explain what a file in the Shapefile format is.

We begin the publication of a series of guides with practical advice related to the use of geoinformation technologies, particularly in crisis management.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck central Italy (100 km north-east of Rome) very early in the morning on 24th August 2016. Area of damage contains several regions, i.a.: Lazio, Abruzzo, Umbria.The most severe damage The towns of Accumoli, Amatrice, Posta and Arquata del Tronto were among the most severly damaged locations. Several aftershocks struck the region over the next few hours. The most powerful had magnitude 5.5. The final number of victims is not yet known, but it reached almost 250 deaths.

Between 30th June and 1st July 2016 in Training Center of the departmental Emergency Fire and Rescue service of Seine-et-Marne French department in Gurcy-le-Châtel were organized large-scale demonstration of EDEN project (End-user driven demo on CBRNe).

Between 7th and 9th June 2016, in Warsaw, Crisis Information Centre (CIK) together with the Main School of Fire Service (SGSP) organized a Table-Top Exercise, that was final event of Project EDEN (End User Driven demo for CBRNe) Large Scale Radiological Demonstrations series.

On 2nd June 2016 in the Main School of Fire Service there were performed tests of SimSpace simulation software that allow to use different data from earth observation for the use of the situation analysis and as a support in decision making process.

On 25th April 2016 radar satellite Sentinel 1-B was launched from Europe's Spaceport located in Kourou, French Guiana and is already in space.

In April 2016 Crisis Information Centre SRC PAS published an article entitled "Geoinformation in crisis and rescue management in Poland".

On 31st March 2016 in Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia there were organized international workshops, that were next step in preparation to the table-top exercise within science experiment EXPE 43 of project DRIVER.

On 21st March 2016 national workshops took place in Warminsko-Mazurski Voivodship Office in Olsztyn. The goal of the event was to prepare the participants for upcoming science experiment EXPE 43 organized within European project DRIVER.

After 2 weeks from successful launch into orbit, Sentinel-3A sent first images of the Earth.