ABOUT EUROSENSE MILESTONES

MILESTONES

DATE MILESTONE
1964 Establishment of the company
1976 EUROSENSE starts as the first company in Europe with the professional development of color and color infrared film by means of a Kodak Versamat 1411
1979 EUROSENSE starts as the first company in Europe with the execution of digital multispectral scannings by means of a Daedalus 1240/1260 (from UV till TIR)
1980 EUROSENSE starts as the first company in Belgium and as one of the first in Europe with the digital processing of satellite imagery (Landsat); on the occasion of the production of the first satellite map of Belgium, EUROSENSE was visited by the late King Baudouin
1981 EUROSENSE executes a digital multispectral scanning (Daedalus) of different sites in Italy for the Italian Science Policy (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
1981 Establishment of additional fully-equipped and 100% owned EUROSENSE office in The Netherlands (Breda)
1981 Establishment of additional fully-equipped and 100% owned EUROSENSE office in Germany (Cologne)
1982 EUROSENSE executes the first remote sensing flight for the detection of oil pollution at sea (accident oil tanker Katina) in the Netherlands by making use of thermal channels (TIR) of its digital airborne scanner (Daedalus)  
1982 EUROSENSE makes a first microclimate study on the Ruhr territory by means of digital multispectral scanning (from UV till TIR).  Until now, only a few dozens microclimate studies were carried out in Germany, France and Hungary (Budapest)
1983 EUROSENSE starts as the first company in Europe with the execution of airborne SLAR data acquisition (Side Looking Airborne Radar of Ericsson) for the detection of oil pollution at sea
1983 EUROSENSE performs a remote sensing campaign in Norway for the "Norvegian State Pollution Control Authority" using different sensors: SLAR, digital multispectral scanning (from U.V. till TIR), 2 metric aerial camera's (color and color infrared)
1983-1986 EUROSENSE succeeds, for the first time at world level, in converting a hovercraft driven by air propellers into a fast and accurate bathymetric measurement device, (Beasac®) that even allows bathymetric data acquisition on the beginning of the dry beach (due to the absence of draught)
1983-1985 EUROSENSE participates (incl. preparation of the final report) to the "EEG/Joint Research Center Ispra/Archimedes I and II projects" by means of an aircraft equipped with a SLAR, a digital multispectral scanner and a metric aerial camera
1984 EUROSENSE performs a remote sensing campaign on the wreck of the ship "Mont Louis" at Blankenberge by means of a digital multispectral scanner
1987 EUROSENSE carries out the first (pilot)project "CORINE Landcover Portugal" (CORINE = COoRdination of INformation on the Environment) for the EC, then followed by "CORINE Luxemburg" (1990) and CORINE East-Germany (1997) on the base of satellite imagery (Spot, Landsat, ERS)
1987 EUROSENSE performs a remote sensing campaign on the wreck of the burning tanker "Olympic Dream" by means of SLAR and digital scanner
1987 EUROSENSE performs a remote sensing campaign on the wreck of the ship "Herald of Free Enterprise" by means of SLAR and digital scanner
1988 EUROSENSE succeeds, for the first time at world level, in creating a production system for the manufacture of digital (color)orthophoto's (Eudicort®)
1988 First Color Orthophoto for United States Geological Survey (USGS) produced by EUROSENSE
1993 Establishment of additional fully-equipped and 100% owned EUROSENSE SA in France (Lille)
1993 Establishment of additional fully-equipped and 100% owned EUROSENSE Kft in Hungary (Budapest)
1993 Probably 1st Color InfraRed Orthophoto made in China produced by EUROSENSE (Cheng De)
1994 Establishment of additional fully-equipped and 100% owned EUROSENSE s.r.o. in Slovakia (Bratislava)
1994 EUROSENSE carries out the first EC/FEOGA-Belgium project by means of satellite imagery (Landsat en Spot) and color orthophotos (produced with the Eudicort® system of EUROSENSE) (FEOGA : Fonds Européen d'Orientation et de Garantie pour l'Agriculture);
1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 EUROSENSE carries out continuously the EC/FEOGA-France project each time nearly half of France by means of satellite imagery (Landsat, Spot, Ers) and aerial imagery (color infrared orthophotos produced with the Eudicort® system of EUROSENSE)
1995 Establishment of additional fully-equipped and 100% owned EUROSENSE Sp.z.o.o. in Poland (Nadarzyn, near Warsaw)
1995 EUROSENSE starts as the first company in Belgium with aerolaserhypsometry (Lidar).  Hereby an elevation model of large areas in Germany, France, Belgium and The Netherlands (until present 11.000 km² in The Netherlands i.e. 1/3 of the Netherlands) is realised by means of a digital laserscanner in an aircraft with high accuracy (10 cm) and high point density (1 point/4 m2)
1995-1997 EUROSENSE executed a complete aerial imagery coverage of Poland in color (320.000 km2: 10 x Belgium) at a scale of 1/26.000 and of the Polish cities at a scale of 1/5.000
1996 ISO Certification from Lloyd's Register of Shipping
1996 EUROSENSE executed a complete aerial imagery coverage of The Netherlands in color at a scale of 1/25.000 (Digital color aerial photography of The Netherlands: DKLN)
1997 Establishment of additional fully-equipped and 100% owned EUROSENSE s.r.o. in the Czech Republic (Prague)
1998 Establishment of ESRI BeLux (together with WALPHOT and ESRI Inc.) in order to extend the GIS related activities
1998-2000 EUROSENSE executed an aerial imagery coverage in color of nearly half the territory of Slovakia at a scale of 1/27.000-1/7.000 (50.000 km2: 1,5 x Belgium)
2000 EUROSENSE executed a second complete aerial imagery coverage of The Netherlands in color at a scale of 1/25.000 (Digital color aerial photography of The Netherlands: DKLN)
2000 EUROSENSE executes a complete aerial imagery coverage in color of Hungary (90.000km²: 3 times Belgium) on a scale 1/25.000
2001 Establishment of EUROSENSE Planning & Engineering (spatial planning and development)
2003 Establishment of additional fully-equipped EUROSENSE office in Bulgaria
2003 EUROSENSE executed a third complete aerial imagery coverage of The Netherlands in color at a scale of 1/25.000 (Digital color aerial photography of The Netherlands: DKLN)
2004 Establishment of additional fully-equipped EUROSENSE office in Romania
2006 EUROSENSE executed a fourth complete aerial imagery coverage of The Netherlands in color with a digital camera at a resolution of 40cm
2008 Establisment of a new office in Antwerp, Belgium (mainly for support of hydrographic department)
2008 EUROSENSE executed a fifth complete aerial imagery coverage of The Netherlands in color with a digital camera at a resolution of 25cm