THE NET RISK
November 1st, 2002
BY FRITZ BRETTCOMPANIES building or expanding new plants, particularly those in the chemical and other potentially hazardous industries, may be able to minimise risk - and therefore insurance premiums - by using space-based imagery as a factor in their planning. This follows a tie-up between the EU's Joint Research Centre and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, announced recently.The stated objective of the move is to improve methodologies and tools for those involved in operations where the safety of people and goods may be ...
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