EDISOFT wins contract with EMSA

This winning project represents the recognition of EDISOFT´s expertise in the area of Earth Observation, Maritime Information Systems and Data Centres. The goal of this contract is to build a new EO-Processing platform that enables EMSA to seamlessly ingest all kinds of earth observation data products from a wide range of service providers and operators.
 
The new system will process and transform ingested packages producing relevant maritime information and feed them into several applications through geospatial standard services.
 
EDISOFT will make use of the most advanced technology aimed at very high performance standards, thus supporting EMSA in its long-term strategy providing tailored EO information services.
Since 2007 EDISOFT is EMSA’s service provider of CleanSeaNet, a Satellite-based oil spill and vessel detection service, which is responsible for the identification and tracking of oil pollution at sea, monitoring pollution accidents and contributing to the identification of polluters.

EDISOFT ground station located in Santa Maria Azores is used for the acquisition of satellite imagery, based on different satellites and resolution capabilities, and uses and develops enhanced algorithms and processing capabilities for the analysis and identification of detections.