SSTL Disaster Net May Foreshadow Europe's GMES

摘要

An inexpensive disaster monitoring satellite constellation Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) is building for a consortium of developing nations could have a role alongside more expensive spacecraft developed on the Continent in the proposed European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) system, according to Britain's top space official. Surrey's Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), a set of five Earth-observing microsatellites owned by five differ- . ent nations but operated in common in times of crisis, would provide quick-update multispectral monitoring that could be used both to guide relief agencies and for such commercial purposes as agriculture and land use.