CIK, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences wishes you all - Merry Christmas, peaceful time with your relatives and fulfillment of your most secret dreams in the upcoming New Year!

In today's article from the series "Geoinformation Guide" you will get to know the functionality of the web application Sentinel Playground, which enables to visualize imagery coming from the Sentinel-2 satellite.

On October 25 and 26, 2017 in the building of the Main School of the Fire Service, the first Face to Face meeting to Trial 1 owned by SGSP was held.

The first meeting of the DRIVER + project partners took place on 25-27 September in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

On Sunday, 01.10.2017, the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences once again opened its doors to the participants of the Festival of Science. This year's topic of the Festival was: Vistula river. Despite age differences, every participant could find something interesting from the agenda.

The Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Science took part in the Science Picnic of organized by Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre.

On 23 May 2017 CIK team participated in the XXII National Rescue Forum titled: "Command Support Systems, robotics, simulation didactics and logistics in rescue and security actions." The organizers were: Mayor of Inowrocław, Multispecialistic Hospital of dr. Ludwik Blażek, Regional Headquarters of Rescue Operations, Voievodship units of: Police in Bydgoszcz and State Fire Service in Toruń, District Commands of: Police and State Fire Service in Inowrocław in cooperation with organizational units of: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Jarosław Dąbrowski Military Academy of Technology in Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, University of Wroclaw, Witelon State Higher Vocational School in Legnica, Medical University in Lublin and the Polish Rescue Society.

On May 23, 2017 CIK specialists participated in the 1st Conference on "Cooperation and exchange of information on missing persons - new technologies". The organizer of the conference was the Center for Searching of Missing Persons of the Police Headquarter in cooperation with the Association of Security Experts of the Republic of Poland. The host of the event was the Military Institute of Armament Technology.

On May 13, 2017 CIK team participated in the 4th National Search and Rescue Maneuvers "KAMPINOS 2017" organized on the occasion of the International Missing Children's Day. The maneuvers were organized by the Center for Searching of Missing Persons of the Police Headquarter in cooperation with the Institute of Political Science of the University of Warsaw, the Rescue Team of the Polish Red Cross (PCK) from Warsaw, the Specialized Rescue Unit s12 and the Jabłonna Voluntary Fire Service Search and Rescue Section.

On 10 May 2017, the CIK representative participated in the 6th edition of the National Scientific Conference "Crisis Management in the National Security System", which main theme was "Crisis Management in the Perspective of Terrorist Threats". The organizer of the conference was the Faculty of National Security of the War Studies University with co-organizers – the Government Centre for Security, the Main School of Fire Service, the Police Academy in Szczytno and the Science and Research Centre for Fire Protection.

We are delighted to invite you to the lecture of Associate professor of SRC PAS – Stanislaw Lewinski, who manages the Earth Observation Group at the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Aon plc, global consulting company, together with Roubini Global Economics and The Risk Advisory Group prepared the Map of Terrorism and Political Risks for 2017.

On 29-30 March 2017 the team of the Crisis Information Centre in cooperation with SEKA S.A., and on behalf of the Polish Chamber of Commerce of the Polish Water Supply Association organized a simulation game on security management in water supply and sewerage enterprises. The game, combined with the panel of lectures, took place in Warsaw.

Today’s night (2:49 CET) Sentinel-2B satellite, which is the twin brother of Sentinel-2A satellite, was launched from the spaceport in French Guiana.

On 01-02.03.2017 the team of the Crisis Information Center in cooperation with SEKA S.A., and on behalf of the Polish Chamber of Commerce of the Polish Water Supply Association organized a simulation game. The game, combined with the panel of lectures, took place in Wroclaw and was concerning the topic of safety management in water supply and sewerage enterprises.