The quality management system of GeoVille, which has first been implemented in 1999, is fully compliant with ISO 9001 standards and has been certified in 2010. The ISO 9001 certification has been carried out by Quality Austria - a member of the International Certification Network (IQNet).
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Certificate in German
Certificate in English
Certificate in French
GeoVille has been awarded with an ESA Service Trial, which will provide EO derived land cover and land cover change maps with a focus on rice and rainfed crops for an area of more than 16,500 km² in south-east Madagascar. The service is directly driven by the requirements of UN-IFAD, supported IFAD projects and the Malagasy Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries as a local stakeholder.
For more information please download project publication (148 KB):
EOFI Service Description
GeoVille Environmental Services features in the latest edition of “Letzeburger Gemengen”, a magazine for the communes in Luxem- bourg. In an interview the Managing Director Stefan Kleeschulte summarises the activities of GeoVille Environmental Services on the local market.
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Cartography of the 21st century
As part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Services Element, the Global Monitoring for Food Security project of ESA aims to provide Earth Observation based services in order to assist stakeholders, nations and international organizations to better implement their policies towards sustainable development.
GeoVille develops Soil Moisture derived Index products based on radar satellite (ERS, ASAR) data and provides related GIS services to the Early Warning Service of the GMFS Stage III project.
From April 20th-22nd the LISA user group, consisting of thematic experts from all provinces, several federal agencies and the European Topic Center, met for an intensive 2 day workshop. On the first day, the users were updated on the results of the first production, the verification and good performance of the LISA prototypes by the Scientific / Technical Board and the functionality of LISA GeoPortal. This was followed by a discussion of the identified issues of the current LISA datamodel specifications. On the second day, the thematic working groups engaged in constructive sessions to discuss the problem areas and reached a consensus on the further adaptions. ETC-LUSI director Andreas Littkopf praised the leading role of Austria in the standardization and implementation of a national land monitoring system and emphasized to fulfil requirements at EU level. For more information on the Land Information System Austria please refer to www.landinformationsystem.at