Consortium

CLS

CLS, subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES) and IFREMER has 700 employees around the world and 5 strategic sectors of activity, including sustainable management of fisheries, environment and climate monitoring, maritime surveillance, energy resources and mining, and fleet management. For more than 30 years, CLS has contributed to major international space programs and research initiatives, via satellite instrument specification, ground system operation, data production and quality control. In parallel, CLS has developed a wide range of operational services using satellite & in-situ data to help citizens and their governments find the right answers to tomorrow's sustainability challenges. CLS is the lead partner in this project.

GISBOX

GISBOX is a multi-discipline engineering company providing GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing services. They provide complete solutions for all standard tasks in digital photogrammetry services such as aerial triangulation, DEM / DTM generation, stereo restitution, topographic and planimetric feature extraction, orthophoto production, colour balancing, mosaicking and tile generation, contour lines, elevation points, 3D terrain visualization, orthophotography services and LIDAR data processing.

GRID-Arendal

GRID-Arendal is a non-profit organization collaborating with UN Environment, supporting informed decision-making and awareness raising through environmental information management and assessment, capacity building services and outreach and communication tools, methodologies and products.

Hatfield Consultants

Hatfield Consultants is a privately-owned environmental and geomatics consulting company with extensive experience delivering environmental climate change services. Their role is to further demonstrate previous experience of working with government agencies in the relevant developing countries to raise awareness and acceptance of Earth Observation (EO)-based information.

PwC

PwC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Their executive consultancy expertise in space and sustainable development sectors is bringing in essential knowledge of international development issues and priorities.

SIRS

SIRS is a French EO service provider specializing in geographical information production as input to geographical information systems and will contribute with relevant EO based information services in the terrestrial domain to user organisations in developing countries. It is a part of the multi-national CLS group.

SISTEMA

SISTEMA is a privately-held IT company that offers products and services based on Remote Sensing analysis techniques for environmental monitoring fusing together satellite collected data with ground measurements and simulated data, making use of the most advanced multi-field and multi-temporal data analysis techniques and tools. They will support a common, standard platform of products and allow access to Sentinel.

UNITAR

UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research operates UNOSAT, its Operational Satellite Applications Programme. UNOSAT utilizes geospatial technologies to address critical international issues in the areas of humanitarian relief, disaster risk reduction, human security, human rights, sustainable development and geospatial information technologies capacity building within regional organizations and member states.