Rome, 18 May 2012 – e-GEOS, a Telespazio (80%) and ASI (20%) company, a leading worldwide player in the geo spatial business, will be holding its 2nd International Conference in Rome on May 23rd and 24th. More than 300 professionals from more than 30 countries, spread out in 5 continents will attend this event.

The conference will see keynote speeches from Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Enrico Saggese, Telespazio Ceo Carlo Gualdaroni, and e-GEOS Ceo Marcello Maranesi, as well as many top worldwide executives from European Union, European Space Agency (ESA), Morocco’s Centre Royal de Teledetection Spatiale, European Maritime Safety Agency, University of Miami (Florida), US Coast Guards, EU’s NEREUS, Google, etc.

Definitely more than a conference, the event will also include insights on the market scenarios, with interactive sessions allowing the participants to capture the market trends, and jointly define ways to prepare and address the business changes to come. It will also be the occasion to materialise business opportunities among actors.

e-GEOS specialises in geo information services and is among the top industrial players in the field. It is known on the worldwide market for its services in the field of :
- Emergency Management, providing disaster maps a few hours after a catastrophic event (flood, earthquake, etc), for which it was activated 50 times in the past years
- Maritime Surveillance, monitoring oil spills in the south Europe waters, for which it has been ranked #1 provider in Europe
- Land Monitoring unique capabilities using COSMO SkyMed, the Italian system that has become the world best in class in satellite Radar since its launch in 2007.

e-GEOS portfolio, which is even larger, will be showcased at the conference expo space, and users will come from all over the world to testimony their use of e-GEOS products and services.


About e-GEOS

e-GEOS, an Italian Space Agency (20%) and Telespazio (80%) company, is a leading international player in the geo-spatial business. e-GEOS offers a whole range of products and services in the Earth Observation and in the geo-spatial application domains, based on both optical and radar satellites as well as on aerial surveys. e-GEOS operates its Earth Observation centres in Matera and Neustrelitz, where data from multiple satellites are received and processed, also for near-real-time monitoring. As the European hub for very high resolution data, e-GEOS grants a unique access to COSMO-SkyMed, GeoEye-1, IKONOS, QuickBird, WorlView-1&2 and Radarsat-1&2 satellites.



Contact:

e-GEOS S.p.A.
Via Cannizzaro 71
00156 Rome – Italy
Tel: (+39) 06.4079.6252/3223
E-mail: Email Contact
Web: www.e-GEOS.it