In October 2024, the Polish - Norwegian bilateral initiative CoSky was launched under the Program "Internal Affairs", implemented within the framework of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and the EEA Grants 2014 - 2021. The program is managed by the Polish Ministry of the Internal Affairs and Administration. Led by the Crisis Information Centre of the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CIK CBK PAN) in collaboration with Norway's Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB) and the company Tiepoint, this initiative seeks to enhance the efficiency of drone use in civil protection in Poland and Norway.

A COLLARIS workshop examined the use of drones and other UAS (unmanned aerial systems) in disaster response including its benefits but also existing and future obstacles and challenges. The workshop’s overall conclusion was: Once we have solved the problems, we have a bright future when using all these systems, giving us a more effective and correct situational overview.

New Geoinformation Guide (only in Polish) concerns digital elevation and surface models which are openly accessible for Poland.

In today's entry from the "Geoinformation Guide" series, we present the Copernicus Open Access Hub browser designed to download free and open satellite images from the Sentinel mission.

In today's article from the "Geoinformation Guide" series we will show you how to download free satellite images, eg from the Landsat mission, in a simple and quick way using the Earth Explorer browser.

We come back with the "Geoinformation Guide" after a longer break. Today's article concerns the functionality of the web application EO Browser.

Today's publication of the “Geoinformation Guide” will introduce us to the secrets of satellite imagery. We will learn how to open satellite images and create color compositions. We will also learn what information is hidden in the filenames of satellite imagery.

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.

US Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a prototype web application for Sentinel-2 imagery browsing and downloading - Sentinel2Look Viewer.

Planet company, the world leader in imaging the Earth with the large constellation of nanosatellites, announced the integration of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data on its Planet Platform. The difficult process of data integration turned out to be a success.

DigitalGlobe, the leading American provider of high-resolution satellite imagery, announced on its blog the launch of the Open Data Program, which aims to provide satellite data for selected large-scale natural disasters.

Launching of the Sentinel-2B optical satellite is planned for 7th March. New satellite will join its twin Sentinel-2A satellite which is already in the orbit since June 2015. All of the operational tests that were conducted from 2016, ended up successfully, thanks to which Sentinel-2B has been transported to the spaceport in French Guiana.

Today's "Geoinformation Guide" series concerns the global OpenStreetMap project, which allows us to view and retrieve free vector data.

On 15 December, NASA has launched a constellation of 8 microsatellites – Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS). The launch took place from the US Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral. Microsatellites were carried to low-Earth orbit 500 km above the Earth. CYGNSS is funded by NASA and its main developers are the University of Michigan and the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI).

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?

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.

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.

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

Next satellite from the European Earth observation programme Copernicus has been launched into space. This time it is first satellite from Sentinel-3 series.

Since December 2015 an application is available on the market called mGOPR which was created thanks to the cooperation between Mountain Volunteer Search and Rescue (polish Górskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe - GOPR) and Transition Technologies company within “mountain IT project”.