PARIS— The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has a budget of nearly $70 million to spend on commercial satellite imagery and is asking commercial providers for ideas on how to improve revisit time and to expand their thermal-imaging portfolios.
Ground sampling distance and satellite video are second-order priorities.
“We take almost 250 images per month and on top of that we do short-term acquisitions to support emergency response,” said Leendert Bal, head of EMSA’s operations department. “We have built up a user community from zero . . .
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