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08.03.2010 CHRIS-Box 1.5 Add-on for BEAM 4.7 released.
The BEAM CHRIS-Box project has been brought into life in order to support users of data of the CHRIS sensor onboard of the ESA Proba platform. The CHRIS-Box comprises the following add-on modules for BEAM:
- Noise Reduction
- Cloud Screeening
- Atmospheric Correction
- Geometric Correction
For more information, please refer to the CHRIS-Box Wiki.
The add-on installer can be downloaded from the BEAM download page or from the CHRIS-Box Wiki.
22.02.2010 BEAM 4.7 released.
The final version of BEAM 4.7 is out now.
We want to thank our users for the valueable feedback we have gotten regarding the RC1 release.
Read more about the new release in the change log and the news entry about the Release Candidate.
For an overview of the changes made to the API please refer to our Wiki - BEAM 4.7 API Changes.
07.01.2010 ESOV-NG 1.6.1 released.
ESOV NG is a public Software tool made available by the European Space Agency to its users for satellite orbit determination.
It is developed by Brockmann Consult GmbH with the objective of improving and modernising the existing ESOV Classic tool.The software is available at the ESA Download site.
ESOV NG allows users to visualize and print Instrument swaths, Ground tracks, Zone coverages, Ground Station Visibility and to generate overpass table for generic Earth Observation LEO satellites.
Support for Envisat, ERS-1, ERS-2, Cryosat, ADM, SMOS, Metop is built in, more satellites can be added easily.
12.-13.11.2009 User training for products of marine earth observation data (in the Framework of the DeMarine Project)
On November 12 and 13 Brockmann Consult gave a training course on Aquatic Remote Sensing to users of the national GMES project DeMarine.
The training course gave an overview on ocean remote sensing and an introduction into the BEAM Toolbox.
The 14 participants came from national agencies and from scientific institutes.
06.11.2009 Brockmann Consult preparing for SMOS first light
Brockmann Consult is preparing for the first light from ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, which was successfully launched into orbit from northern Russia on 2 November. 'First light' is expected to occur in the second week of December.
Brockmann Consult, being responsible for the archival and distribution of SMOS data products to principal investigators, is looking forward to test its facilities with the final test data suite going to be packaged by ESA next week.
Besides preparing the distribution of SMOS data, Brockmann Consult is developing the SMOS-Toolbox for BEAM (SMOS-Box), Version 2.0 of which is going to be released by the end of November, a week before the SMOS 'first light'. The toolbox has been brought into life in order to support users of data acquired by ESA's SMOS mission. Both BEAM and the SMOS-Box are scientific software tools, which ESA/ESRIN is providing free of charge to the earth observation community.
09.09.2009 Sen3Exp campaign conducted under leadership of Brockmann Consult
As part of the development process for ESA’s Sentinel-3 Earth observation mission, remote-sensing experts carried out an extensive experiment campaign across southern Europe this summer.
The results provide valuable insight into the imagery the mission will deliver after it is launched in 2013.
22.-23.08.2009 A BEAM Training Course in Tallinn
A BEAM Training Course has been successfully conducted in the framework of the Nordic Network for Aquatic Remote Sensing and the EU FP-7 project ESTSPACE. Researchers and Students of Finland, Estonia, Lihtuania, Poland, Sweden and Russia participated in the training courses.
For more information about BEAM training courses please
contact Kerstin Stelzer.
09.07.2009 BC will be on TV: RTL Regional "Wissen X-act", Tuesday 09.07.09, 18:00
The documentation is about the Wadden Sea UNESCO World Nature Heritage and the role of remote sensing application for the monitoring of the intertidal flats.
09.07.2009 SMOS-BOX Version 1.0.1 has been released
The project SMOS Toolbox for BEAM (SMOS-Box) has been brought into life in order to support users of data acquired by ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. SMOS-Box is a user tool which ESA/ESRIN is providing free of charge to the Earth Observation Community.
08.07.2009 ESOV NG 1.5.2 has been released
The version 1.5.2 of the ESOV NG application has been released and it can be downloaded from the esov distribution web site at
The Earth observation Swath and Orbit Visualisation tool, ESOV provides the user with the means to visualise the instrument swaths of all ESA Earth Observation Satellites and assist in understanding where and when satellite measurements are made and ground contact is possible.
02.06.2009 BEAM 4.6 released
The BEAM development team proudly presents
- the new BEAM 4.6 release,
- the redesigned BEAM website including
- a new BEAM user forum!
BEAM 4.6 comes with some interesting new features, namely the new layer and session management. With the new forum we hope to establish an vivid community where BEAM users ask questions, provide solutions and share their knowledge.
The forum is moderated by the BEAM development team and our experts wont let any problem unacknowledged.
25.05.2009 BEAM meets SeaDAS
The BEAM development team of Brockmann Consult visited the NASA Ocean Color Group in order to figure out a possible collaboration between the SeaDAS and the BEAM project.
08.04.2009 Antarctica ENVISAT ASAR Images Web site now online
More than 260 ASAR Antarctica images (Inland, Coastline, Antarctic waters) are presented on the Web site.
12.03.2009 Relaunch of WAQSS Service
Relaunch of WAQSS Service - investigate the new dynamic map applications of water quality products.
29.01.2009 BEAM 4.5.1 released
BEAM version 4.5.1 is a maintenance release which fixes problems users reported for version 4.5. Additionally, some important improvements regarding band arithmetic and colour palette handling have been introduced.
01.12.2008 BC member of the Nordic Network for Aquatic Remote Sensing
NORDic network for AQUAtic REMote Sensing (NordAquaRemS) has started up with preparations this fall. The purpose of the NordAquaRemS is to aggregate efforts in solving common scientific and user-oriented problems, to share resources, training and expertise, and increase staff and student mobility.
Satellite technique provides a synoptic view of whole water bodies and has shown to be a very cost-effective method to monitor changes in aquatic ecosystems.
Monitoring of harmful algal blooms is particularly important for marine aquaculture and fisheries, as well as for tourism.
In northern latitudes the winter season introduces particular problems with ice formation and melting.
Human activities are different than in ice free conditions and safe travelling on ice is a critical question.The network aims for:
- recruitment of well-qualified PhD students into the field;
- organizing annual PhD/research training courses;
- haring of scientific expertise, facilities and human resources;
- mprovement of the atmospheric correction over optically complex Nordic waters;
- improvement of data sharing; and
- improved exchange between scientists, users and service providers.
31.10.2008 BEAM 4.5 released
The aim of BEAM version 4.5 is to efficiently handle high resolution data products in terms of number of pixels per image. BEAM now uses tiled images and image pyramids for a number of imaging operations. The result is a greatly improved image display performance and memory usage. BEAM 4.5 also can read and write GeoTIFF.
08.-09.10.2008 Symposium Geoinformationen für die Küstenzone
Kerstin Stelzer (BC) berichtet über “Informationsgewinn aus optischen und SAR Fernerkundungsdaten sowie in-Situ Daten für ein optimiertesWattenmeermonitoring“.
Darüber hinaus ist Brockmann Consult auf der Tagung, die in der Hafencity Universität stattfindet, mit einem Firmenstand vertreten und präsentiert seine Produktpalette im Bereich Geoinformations-Dienstleistungen.
Brockmann Consult präsentiert sein Firmenportfolio anlässlich der diesjährigen Fernerkundungs-tagung der BfG in Hamburg.
22.-26.09.2008 MERIS AATSR Workshop in Frascati
BC attends with 3 presentations & 4 posters and will host several introductory demonstrations for BEAM and its latest Features.
09.09.2008 GlobCover End User Meeting at the European Environmental Agency
Version 2 of the best resolution global land classification, based on MERIS 300m resolution data, was presented to the user community.
Brockmann Consult is responsible for the pre-processing pillar of the complex processing chain.
01.09.2008 SnowRadiance contract awarded
The European Space Agency has awarded the contract run the Snow Radiance study to an international team lead by Brockmann Consult.
The study aims at modelling the radiative transfer in snow and ice, and to develop and implement BEAM processors to classify clouds, snow and ice pixels in earth observation data, and to retrieve snow and ice properties.
28.08.2008 BEAM training during the ESTSPACE summer school
Tartu, Estonia: The international summer school “Applications and operational use of remote sensing for monitoring environment and security“ took place from 27.08. – 29.08.2008 in Tartu, Estonia.
It was attended by more than 20 students from the Baltic countries, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Kerstin Stelzer and Carsten Brockmann from Brockmann Consult gave practical exercises using software tool BEAM and satellite images.
11.07.2008 BEAM 4.2 has been released
18.-19.06.2008 DeMarine at De-Conference in Bonn
More than 150 participants attended the German GMES De-Projects conference in Bonn.
De-Marine (with participation of Brockmann Consult), De-Cover and De-Secure were presented and the integration into the European GMES initiative was discussed.
27.-29.05.2008 BC presents the Marcoast Project at the US/EU Baltic Sea Conference in Tallinn
20.05.2008 Kick-Off Meeting DeMarine in Bonn
15.04.2008 5. Treffen des Arbeitskreises Fernerkundung Küste
02.-03.04.2008 GI-Tage Nord, Firmenstand BC (images)
10.03.2008 Globcover - first global land cover map at 300m resolution published
07.-08.02.2008 Validation Workshop Marcoast Water Quality
01.02.2008 DeMarine Project has been launched
06.-07.12.2007 Annual Review Meeting Marcoast
20.-22.11.2007 GlobColour Workshop Norway
20.-23.11.2007 Training Course in Flintbek (LANU) of OFEW Tools and BEAM
13.-16.11.2007 Training Course in Oldenburg (NLWKN) OFEW Tools and BEAM
31.10.2007 Release of BEAM 4.1!!!
22.-23.10.2007 Anwender Treffen GIS Küste in St. Andreasberg
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