DMCii began delivering images for CwRS, Europe's premier operational remote sensing application, in June. The programme, run by the EC Joint Research Centre at Ispra, Italy uses imaging data from selected satellites to administer agricultural funding under the Common Agricultural Policy.

DMCii's Marketing Director, Paul Stephens said, "DMCii is proud to be approved by the European Commission to participate in Europe's premier operational remote sensing campaign. The DMC demonstrates the practical benefits of a coordinated constellation and provides operational Earth Observation for many applications. DMCii works to deliver the unique remote sensing capability of the DMC to end-users across the world, and to develop value to the DMC Members."

DMCii competes successfully on a daily basis with other EC-approved satellite data providers because it delivers 32 metre data for monitoring agriculture, using Landsat spectral bands 2, 3 & 4. The 600km wide DMC images capture multiple targets in a single shot, rapidly collecting cloud-free data using daily revisit from the coordinated constellation. The data is also of high quality - radiometrically and geometrically corrected.

The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) includes satellites from Algeria, China, Nigeria, Turkey and UK. With several satellites working together, the DMC is able to gather images of a given location daily, thus mitigating cloud cover and monitoring dynamic or rapidly changing phenomena in a way single satellites cannot.

Thanks to the unique organisation of the DMC, Members purchasing a satellite from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) also "buy in" to the entire constellation's imaging network. This not only makes purchasing a satellite economically viable, but also low risk, because Members benefit from the capacity of other groundstations and satellites in the constellation to fulfil imaging requirements.

DMC International Imaging (DMCii) was established by SSTL to serve the DMC Members by generating international data sales, coordinating the constellation to fulfil data contracts, and by providing high quality data processing to meet end-users' demanding standards. DMCii also coordinates DMC's disaster response through the International Charter: Space & Major Disasters (see www.disasterscharter.org ).

Data can be purchased from the DMC archives or by ordering a programmed imaging campaign. For further information contact DMCii on info@dmcii.com or telephone +44 1483 804299. More information can be found on the DMCii website www.dmcii.com.

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