Giving Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland the opportunity to better manage their own coastal resources in an environmental and sustainable way is the aim of a project funded by the European Union (PHARE). The project is based on satellite imaging techniques to map and document sensitive coastline areas of the four countries.

Detail-rich satellite images of landscapes and road networks will now be available quicker on the Internet, thanks to a new service called GISimages from the "Online Web Shop" of Swedish company SSC Satellitbild. All satellite images are ortho-corrected and can be used directly with geometrical reliability in a GIS (Geographic Information System).

Satellite pictures of your area can now be obtained over the Internet thanks to a new service called Spacepix from satellite image company, SSC Satellitbild in Sweden. Anyone with a home computer and access to the Internet can take advantage of the new service for a small fee.

The extension of its data collection capacity by SSC Satellitbild AB to include the Japanese JERS-1 satellitewill allow companies faster andmore reliable access to a variety of remote sensing information for geographic information systems.