SATELLITE SAFETY
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) is developing a service that could save the insurance industry expensive shipwreck policy payouts, updating coastal maritime maps from space. The Euro 1 million Coastchart project aims at improving charts of shifting sand, mud and gravel-banks that can move 100's of metres annually. With 680,000 km of coastline worldwide, keeping accurate records is difficult, even using weather dependent aerial photography. So ESA has developed a radar camera for its environmental satellite ENVISAT, giving quick, up to date and ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.