BRUSSELS — The European Commission is moving closer to setting up an Earth Observation Government Service (EOGS) employing multiple sensors in a defense- and security-focused program for European intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Its operational contours are still uncertain, but commercial geospatial imaging and sensing companies expressed confidence here that the service would not be built using its own satellites, but would incorporate existing commercial capacity in Europe.
“We are thinking about different possibilities,” said Mauro Facchini, head of the earth observation unit in the Commission . . .
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