Check out our paper in the october issue of the french GIS newsletter "Decryptageo" (formerly SIG
La Lettre) on new trends in very high resolution imagery, following the Euroconsult Earth Observation Summit held in Paris last September.
Oct 15, 2013
Oct 14, 2013
10 years of oil exploitation in Chad
To celebrate and assess 10 years of oil exploitation in Chad, two conferences were organized in N'Djamena (Chad) around October 10th, 2013.
The Ministry of Energy and Oil of Chad held the Chad International Oil, Mining and Energy conference (CIOME 2013) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Conference Center from Oct 8th to 11th. Géo212 gave a presentation in the "Environmental Protection and Natural Resources" session of the congress.
The local NGO's, led by GRAMP-TC, held another summit at the CEFOD conference center, dedicated to the benefits and pitfalls of O&G exploitation for local populations in south western Chad. On October 10th, Geo212 presented its work on the Chinese CNPC environmental disaster which occured in August 2013.
Oct 07, 2013
2 presentations at FIG 2013 in Saint Dié
Our presentations at the 24th "Festival International de Géographie", which was held in Saint Dié (eastern France) on October 3 to 6th, are online on the AFIGEO website.
The first one deals with the SAPOsdi system ('how to know when and where we must update SDI's in Africa").
The second one presents parts of our results on the assessment of chinese companies actions in western Africa
Both are in french (in Eastern France, they barely speak french and nobody speaks english :>))) )
Sep 15, 2013
Aug 29, 2013
Jul 01, 2013
Geo212 will be part of the 24th Festival International de Géographie in October
Geo212 will give two conferences at the Festival International de Géographie in Saint Dié (France) early october :
- SAPOsdi : Comment savoir où et quand mettre à jour les cartes sur l'ensemble de l'Afrique ?
- Monitoring des investissements économiques chinois en Afrique francophone et de leur impact environnemental
More details to come later.
Jun 01, 2013
Assesment of Spot 6 imagery at the 26th International Cartographic Conference
The paper we proposed with Astrium Geo-Information Services on the assesment of Spot 6 data for the constitution and update of African Spatial Data Infrastructure will be presented at the International Cartographic Conference in Dresden in late August.
The complete paper is available for download right here.
May 16, 2013
Mar 25, 2013
Geointelligence Course at Mines ParisTech : 18th session
Once again, we were pleased to share with an enthusiastic group of students our Central African Case Study during the Mines ParisTech "Geointelligence Course".
This year we had for a week students from 15 different countries studying in 11 different european programs.
For one week, half of our company staff is involved in the course, but what a thrill...
Mar 15, 2013
Feb 19, 2013
Feb 07, 2013
Jan 24, 2013
Jan 07, 2013
Jan 01, 2013
Nov 29, 2012
Return on Sandy Island
On November 22nd, attention was brought to the fate of a mysterious island located on various maps and virtual globes between Australia and New Caledonia. Recent explorations by the Australian Hydrographic Office showed that in fact this Pacific Ocean Island did not exist.
As often, our team was asked by various media to provide satellite imagery "proofs". We did so, but emphasizing that it was fairly often that openly available low scale data base like WVS, DCW or VMAP1 were full of shit, because of their production process and the genealogy of the original sources.
We summarized our analysis in the following figure :
Everyday we all use files which contain complete metadata explaining everything.
Except that if you do not know the complete impact of all the information included in the metadata, you are in deep trouble. In this particular Sandy Island exemple, if you do not know what is DLMB (a geospatial file for AWACS radar surveillance planes) and how it was produced (especially in remote pacific areas), you cannot imagine that the information included in the World Vector Shoreline that Michelin, Google Earth or Bing use, comes directly from Pepe Boyington and Captain Hook. Fortunately, we did produce DLMB for the french AWACS in the 90's and we remember how we specified the production on Mediterranean or West Indies Islands.
Nov 22, 2012
Arctic Areas and Geospatial Issues
Check our paper on "The Far North" in the november issue of the french GIS Newsletter "SIG La Lettre"
Oct 25, 2012
Information War : debate at IFG on october 16th
On October 16th, The Institut Français de Géopolitique celebrated its 10th anniversary with a conference organized with the french newspaper Le Monde.
The topic was
« Information de guerre / guerre de l’information »
and the four panelists will be Michel Foucher (ENS), Alain Frachon (Le Monde), Olivier Da Lage (RFI radio) and Thierry Rousselin (Géo212).
The whole conference (in French) is available live, courtesy of IFG :
(copyright IFG, 2012)
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