SPACE DEAL
November 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNA TIE-UP between the EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, could have important consequences for industrial insurance in the context of risk management and disaster control throughout Europe. The stated objective is to improve methodologies and tools for those involved in operations where the safety of people and goods may be affected such as floods, forest fires, oil spills and industrial and epidemiological risks. This will be achieved by marrying CNES's space-based imagery and ...
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