LA PLATA, Maryland — The European Commission is weighing the creation of a Copernicus Governmental Services program that would rely on high-resolution commercial imagery at a time when the EU’s dedicated Satellite Centre, which provides governments with military- and security-related geospatial imagery, is being questioned for its dependence on commercial sources.
Both efforts illustrate the fact that the European Union institutions cannot secure enough imagery from individual nations’ military observation satellites to meet the burgeoning demand. France, Germany, Italy and Spain all possess military observation . . .
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