PRoVisG - Latest News http://www.provisg.eu/ This feed displays the 10 most recent news articles added to PRoVisG. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:35:41 GMT en-us Bridget Rover Field Trial September 21-25, 2009 http://www.provisg.eu//news/Bridget-Rover-Field-Trial-September-21-25-2009/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT EADS Astrium provided the great opportunity for the PRoVisG partners to participate in a field trial using Bridget, Astrium's ExoMars rover prototype, at a quarry in Sandy near Stevenage, North of London. The site had been chosen for its similarity to Martian terrain. The project partners brought camera equipment to be mounted on the rover and acquired important new image datasets for research and development.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8271733.stm

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/09/26/itn.clarke.uk.optics.for.mars.itn

]]> Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) 2009 http://www.provisg.eu//news/Arctic-Mars-Analogue-Svalbard-Expedition-AMASE-2009/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

PRoVisG contributed to this year's Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) 2009 in the Svalbard archipelago. Within an international team consisting of representatives from Agencies (ESA, NASA-JPL) and space Instrumens teams (e.g. ExoMars PanCam), on-site 3D Vision processing abilities were demonstrated, and a huge amount of representative test data was acquired.

PRoVisG Team member Arnold Bauer: "Our AMASE contribution was generally successful for PRoVisG and also the ExoMars PanCam Team. Great progress since 2008 was recognized. PanCam had a Team of 3 people, coming with quite different scope, well complementing one another. A large data set, extremely useful for PRoVisG, was collected, and large part of it was already on-site processed.

The target of the expedition from our understanding (to bring together space community and launch discussions and joint projects / undertakings during the expedition and in future) was fulfilled."

For more information click here.

]]> Research Connection 2009, Space Session, Prague http://www.provisg.eu//news/Research-Connection-2009-Space-Session-Prague/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT PRoVisG to appear at "Research Connection 2009" in Prague - On May 7 Gerhard Paar will contribute to a panel discussion covering insights into the aspects of successful EC proposal submission such as FP7-SPACE networking, strategies in EC Proposal submission, Grant Agreement negotiations & early EC-FP7 Project Agenda.

On May 8 in the morning the PRoVisG Co-ordinator will participate in a one hour press briefing by presenting the ProViSG project. This press programme, attended by key science journalists from all EU Member States, represents a unique opportunity to raise the visibility of our FP7-SPACE project with European media and the wider public, showcase our successes, and highlight our outstanding work.

Introduction

  • Mr Reinhard SCHULTE-BRAUCKS, Head of Unit, Space Research and Development, European Commission, European Union

 

What do we do?

  • Mr Guy GADIOT, Expert Project Evaluator, Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes, The Netherlands

  • Mr Gerhard PAAR, PRoVIsG Project Coordinator, Joanneum Research, Austria

  • Dr Daniele PAVARIN, HPH.com Project Coordinator, CISAS, Italy

  • Mr Martin TAJMAR, Expert Project Evaluator, Austrian Research Centre, Austria

  • Moderator: Mr Marius-Ioan PISO, CEO, Romanian Space Agency, Romania

 

Where do we go?

  • Mr Gerhard HAERENDEL, SAG Member, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany

  • Mr Jan KOLAR, Managing Director, Czech Space Office, Czech Republic

  • Mr Alberto TOBIAS, Head of Systems, Softwhere and Technology Department, ESA, France

  • Mr Jean-Jacques TORTORA, Secretary-General, Eurospace, France

  • Moderator: Mr Paul WEISSENBERG, Director, European Commission, European Union

 

Objective of the session

 

The Space session provides for insights into EU Space Research activities today and in the future. It is divided into two sub-sessions, titled "What do we do?" and "Where do we go?"

 

The first session, "What do we do?" provides for an opportunity to learn about success stories from projects, share insights on how to draft good proposals, and learn more about how such proposals are evaluated.

 

The second session, "Where do we go?" looks ahead towards a new vision for European Space Research and Development efforts in the areas of Space Science and Exploration.

Within each session, 20 minutes are foreseen for interaction with conference participants.

 

Click here to get the Agenda

 

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